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Guides for AI Agents & Automation

Guides for automation and integration tasks: turning incoming requests into reviewed tasks with AI, and defining an API integration before anyone writes code. If your task isn't covered, describe it — the first discussion is free.

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Buy, Integrate or Build? Choosing an Internal Tool

Compare buying, connecting existing tools and a custom build over 12–24 months, with three hypothetical budgets, data ownership and exit costs.

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Retries Without Duplicates: Integration Acceptance Tests

A locally executed test matrix for duplicate delivery, wrong order, timeout and recovery, with observed results and limits.

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AI Agent or Workflow Automation? A Practical Decision Guide

When fixed rules are enough, when one model step helps and when an agent is justified, shown on one fictional process designed two ways.

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AI request processing: from an email to a reviewed task

A practical workflow for AI-assisted business intake: capture the request, extract details, review uncertainty and hand structured information to the team.

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API Integration Brief: What to Define Before Development

A checklist for what an API integration brief should define before code: source of truth, fields, direction, cadence and acceptance criteria.

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Build vs Buy a Shopify Support Agent: Costs, Integrations and Human Handoff

Compare Fin's outcome pricing with the build, hosting, model usage and maintenance costs of a custom Shopify support agent.

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A Custom MCP Server for Your Business: Read-Only First, Gated Writes Later

How I scope a business MCP server: narrow read tools, enforced permissions, a useful audit log and write actions added behind approval.

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