Kurt is the CEO of Machine-like, the Managed Agent Operations platform.
Founder, Machine-like
> Choosing the right AI agent use case means passing each candidate workflow through three gates in order: value (is the job worth owning), risk (can the business afford the worst day), and...
> AI agent use cases are business workflows an agent can own end to end, and they sort by function: sales, marketing, customer service, finance and admin, HR, and IT operations. A use case is real...
> AI agents and chatbots differ by what they produce: a chatbot produces conversation, answering questions inside a contained exchange, while an AI agent produces actions, completing multi-step work...
> AI agent orchestration is the coordination layer that lets multiple specialized AI agents share work, context, and handoffs on jobs too big for one agent to own. An orchestrator routes tasks,...
> Designing an agentic workflow means specifying five stages in order: intake (the trigger and the inputs), reasoning (the decision and its limits), action (what the agent may write and where),...
> An agentic workflow is a complete business job, from trigger to finished outcome, that an AI agent owns by deciding each step instead of following a fixed branch. It differs from a single task,...
> The SMB agentification roadmap is the staged path a founder-led business takes from one-off agent pilots to an operating model, defined by who owns the agents rather than how many days have passed....
The business case for AI agents is the per-workflow analysis that decides whether an agent is worth building, measured as the manual-coordination cost a business stops paying minus the oversight.
> Agentic AI is software that reasons over changing input and acts toward an outcome, while traditional automation runs a fixed rule and conventional software executes a fixed instruction. Agentic AI...
> An AI agent for business is software that owns a defined workflow end to end: it reads what is happening, decides the next step, acts across the tools a company already runs, and works toward an...
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