What the model is good at
Reading unstructured input no schema could describe, producing a first draft, and classifying something genuinely fuzzy. It is bad at arithmetic, bad at giving the same answer twice, and bad at being audited.
Where the model goes
The test: if you would be uncomfortable with a step producing a different answer tomorrow on the same input, it is not a model step — write the function. On our own Growth Engine, one step fetches a prospect's homepage and scores it on six dimensions; the compliance around it lives in code, not in the prompt.
A person at one gate
POD Engine, our own print-on-demand pipeline, runs nine stages from trend to storefront, and exactly one waits for a person: the moment before artwork is generated and published to the printer.
Seeing what it is doing
An agent estate needs a quick answer to "what is running right now?" Agent Console, which we built, puts six control surfaces behind one screen.
The long version is in the guide to putting AI agents into a real process.