<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Blog on AI agents and automation</title><description>What we learn building AI agents and automations that reach production: what breaks, how it gets measured and what is decided before any code is written.</description><link>https://ideasforge.io</link><language>en-US</language><item><title>What happens after an AI chatbot or agent is delivered</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/ai-chatbot-maintenance</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/ai-chatbot-maintenance</guid><description>How we maintain an AI chatbot after delivery: a golden dataset of real conversations, monitoring, alerts and results every week.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agents</category><category>Reliability</category></item><item><title>It says it is done and it is not</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/false-success</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/false-success</guid><description>In tests where nobody else can contradict the agent, almost half of its failures come with a claim that it went fine. What the studies measure and who says done.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agents</category><category>Reliability</category><category>Architecture</category></item><item><title>You do not build AI. The Act applies to you anyway.</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/the-rules-apply-to-you-too</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/the-rules-apply-to-you-too</guid><description>The EU AI Act does not hand duties only to the people who make models. Two already apply to you today. The postponement everybody is talking about leaves them alone.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Compliance</category><category>Regulation</category><category>Business</category></item><item><title>The shiny toy</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/the-shiny-toy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/the-shiny-toy</guid><description>The AI project that dazzles in the demo and dies in a drawer has a name and an antidote. A three-signal test to tell a tool from a toy.</description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><category>Method</category></item><item><title>Here is a secret: I don&apos;t like agentic architectures</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/i-dont-like-ai-agents</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/i-dont-like-ai-agents</guid><description>We sell AI agents, and we don&apos;t like how almost everyone builds them. Business rules cannot live in the prompt, they have to live in the code.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agents</category><category>Architecture</category><category>Security</category></item><item><title>Data before prompts</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/data-before-prompts</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/data-before-prompts</guid><description>An entire market sells prompt engineering. Our production experience says you gain more by organizing the data than by polishing the prompt.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data</category><category>Architecture</category><category>Agents</category></item><item><title>Starting an AI project is easy. Keeping it alive is nearly impossible</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/keeping-ai-alive</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/keeping-ai-alive</guid><description>Flashy AI projects launch well and die young. Profitable ones are easy to start and cheap to sustain. The difference is decided before any code is written.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Maintenance</category><category>Observability</category><category>Business</category></item><item><title>The symptom signature beats the fix</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/the-symptom-signature</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/the-symptom-signature</guid><description>Documenting how a failure is recognized from the outside pays more than documenting how it was fixed. Three real signatures from an AI assistant in production.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Observability</category><category>Maintenance</category><category>Agents</category></item><item><title>What your assistant does when a tool goes down</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/when-a-tool-goes-down</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/when-a-tool-goes-down</guid><description>A conversational assistant depends on systems that fail. The circuit breaker that protects the user, and the three lessons production taught us about it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agents</category><category>Reliability</category><category>Maintenance</category></item><item><title>Measure AI by profit, not by productivity</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/measure-ai-by-profit</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/measure-ai-by-profit</guid><description>Productivity is AI&apos;s comfortable metric, it always looks good and commits to nothing. We prefer the uncomfortable one, which concrete gain the system delivered.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><category>Method</category><category>Automation</category></item><item><title>The agent that queries your data does not write SQL</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/ai-agents-sql</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/ai-agents-sql</guid><description>The text-to-SQL pattern promises a model that writes queries. We built it for Savian with the opposite decision, and that decision is what makes it safe.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Data</category><category>Agents</category><category>Security</category></item><item><title>Invoice digitization with OCR and AI, from a case in production</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/invoice-automation-ocr-ai</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/invoice-automation-ocr-ai</guid><description>What changes when OCR meets a language model, how it looks in a real case with utility invoices and why validation is the actual product.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Automation</category><category>OCR</category><category>Back office</category></item><item><title>An AI agent for real-estate agencies, from the inside</title><link>https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/ai-agent-real-estate</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ideasforge.io/en/blog/ai-agent-real-estate</guid><description>Dozens of WhatsApp messages a day, five to ten minutes per inquiry and an overloaded team. What the agent that filters requests for a Barcelona agency actually does.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agents</category><category>Real estate</category><category>Automation</category></item></channel></rss>