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[VOL.01]
Real work. Clear limits. Human owners.

See where agents
earn their keep.

Find the work AI agents can handle, what they still get wrong, and where a person needs to stay in charge.

01Name the job
02Inspect limits
03Keep a human owner

Hype obscures the actual utility of AI agents.

It is difficult to separate real workflows from empty promises. Teams waste time testing tools that cannot handle edge cases or hallucinate at scale.

The ShiftA clear, honest map of what agents can actually do today, complete with their failure rates and required human oversight.

The Field Notes

Three ways this can help. Illustrative scenarios, not promised results.

Support

Customer Support Triage

Situation

Support queue is overwhelmed with simple status inquiries, hiding urgent technical issues.

Solution

Agent tags, categorises, and answers tier-1 questions based on docs. Escalate complex issues to human agents with a summary.

Operations

Data Normalisation

Situation

Finance team spends hours daily copying invoice details into the ERP system.

Solution

Agent extracts line items from PDFs and maps them to standard ERP fields. Flags low-confidence extractions for human review.

Sales

Research Brief Generation

Situation

Sales reps spend 30 minutes researching each prospect before a call.

Solution

Agent scrapes recent news, earnings calls, and LinkedIn, summarising key talking points in a 1-page brief.

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A living map of twenty useful workflows.

We are starting small so each entry can be tested and maintained. The first collection will focus on research, support, sales operations, document work, and internal reporting.

Evidence-backed cardsIndependent test notesPlain-language risk key

Tell us which job you want an agent to handle.

We are choosing the first workflows now. Share the repetitive task you want examined, and we will use the requests to set the testing order.

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