Software

How to Build an AI Agent That Actually Does What You Need (Not What the Demo Showed)
- Larry Brooks
- Software, AI Automation
- 30 Mar, 2026
Every AI agent demo looks like magic. The agent answers complex questions, navigates multiple systems, and produces perfect results in 30 seconds. The audience applauds. The budget gets approved. Si
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Can an AI Agent Replace Your Customer Service Team? (The Honest Answer)
- Larry Brooks
- AI Automation, Software
- 23 Mar, 2026
The vendor pitch is seductive: deploy an AI customer service agent, reduce headcount by 70%, and watch your support costs plummet. The pitch is not entirely wrong. But it is dangerously incomplete.
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How We Built an AI Sales Agent That Books Meetings While Your Team Sleeps
- Larry Brooks
- Software, AI Automation
- 19 Mar, 2026
At 2:47 AM on a Tuesday, a VP of Operations at a mid-market SaaS company visited a client's website. She browsed three service pages. She downloaded a case study. She opened the pricing page twice.
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The Consulting Firm That Doubled Proposals Without Hiring a Single New Analyst
- Larry Brooks
- AI Automation, Software
- 14 Feb, 2026
A 15-person management consulting firm had a capacity problem. Their pipeline was healthy — more RFPs coming in than they could respond to. But every proposal required 15–20 hours of analyst time: re
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Your Onboarding Process Is Losing Clients. Here's Exactly Where and Why.
- Larry Brooks
- AI Automation, Software
- 24 Jan, 2026
You closed the deal. The contract is signed. The client is excited. And then your onboarding process slowly, quietly erodes every ounce of goodwill that your sales team built. This is not an exagger
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Why Your AI Chatbot Fails (And the 1 Fix That Makes It Convert)
- Larry Brooks
- Software, AI Automation
- 14 Jan, 2026
Your chatbot answers questions. Congratulations — so does Google. The reason most AI chatbots fail to convert visitors into leads is not a technical failure. It is a design failure. They are built to
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I Gave a Client's Sales Team AI-Powered CRM. They Almost Quit. Then This Happened.
- Larry Brooks
- Software, AI Automation
- 30 Dec, 2025
Three days after we deployed AI-powered CRM for a mid-sized consulting firm, the lead sales rep sent an email that started with: "This feels like Big Brother for salespeople." Two other reps had alre
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SaaS Churn Is a Data Problem Disguised as a Customer Problem
- Larry Brooks
- Data, Software
- 04 Nov, 2025
Your churn rate is not a customer satisfaction problem. It is a visibility problem. By the time a customer complains, cancels, or goes quiet, they have already made their decision. The signal that th
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