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Playbooks

When software automates customer conversations, invoice processing, or intake qualification, it feels like permanent leverage. A repetitive administrative task that used to consume twenty hours a...

Kurt Fischman, Founder of Machine-likeKurt FischmanOct 9, 2026
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Workflows

How Agencies Can Automate Customer Reporting

Ask any agency founder what happens during the first five business days of a new month, and they will describe the same scene. Account managers stop optimizing campaigns, strategists cancel planning...

Kurt Fischman, Founder of Machine-likeKurt FischmanOct 8, 2026
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Workflows

How to Automate Overdue Invoice Reminders

Most small-business owners discover automated collections after a painful cash crunch. You look at an accounts receivable aging report, realize that 30% of your billings are sitting past due, and...

Kurt Fischman, Founder of Machine-likeKurt FischmanOct 7, 2026

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Workflows

Understanding Inbound Lead Response Agents

An AI agent for inbound lead response is a productized inbound workflow inside an AI Agent System for founder-led businesses where inbound volume has outgrown the team. The agent owns the path from...

Kurt Fischman · May 27, 2026

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