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Applied AI & Automation

Putting AI to work inside a business — AI employees, workflow automation, integration patterns, and the operational questions that decide whether a deployment sticks.

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Applied AI & Automation8 min

Contract search AI now depends on metadata, not just embeddings

Contract search AI fails when retrieval treats every clause as context-free text. Jurisdiction, party, contract type, date and access scope now decide whether legal RAG returns the right clause or a plausible wrong one.

1 Sept 2026Read

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Applied AI & Automation8 min

AI agent observability is now a deployment requirement

Production agents need traces for sessions, spans, tools and token usage before they need another orchestration layer. The priority is to reconstruct each run across clouds, local machines and business systems.

18 Aug 2026Read