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    AI agents vs automations: what's the difference?
    automations

    November 11, 2026

    AI agents vs automations: what's the difference?

    AI agents are everywhere at the moment. If you're already using automations in your business, you might be wondering what an agent can do that your existing setup can't.

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    How to build a better sales-to-delivery handover
    business-strategy

    How to build a better sales-to-delivery handover

    It's late November. Your sales team has just closed a deal, and the client is expecting work to start in two weeks.

    What should you automate? 6 real-world examples
    automations

    What should you automate? 6 real-world examples

    Businesses are under pressure to automate more. AI can screen candidates, manage sales conversations, generate reports and handle entire workflows.

    Resource Planning vs Project Planning
    project-management

    Resource Planning vs Project Planning

    Three project managers are planning their next few weeks of work. Each has a realistic timeline, clear deadlines and someone responsible for every task.

    Why services firms automate in the wrong order
    automations

    Why services firms automate in the wrong order

    A business invests in a new dashboard, promising to bring project progress, resource planning and financial reporting into one place.

    Why status meetings keep multiplying, and hidden handovers behind them
    operational-visibility

    Why status meetings keep multiplying, and hidden handovers behind them

    It's Tuesday at 9:30 and eight people are on a status call trying to work out whether the client's revised brief reached the designer. It did, on Friday, in a Slack thread between two people. Nobody else saw it.

    Projectworks Integrations with Your Project Management Tool
    integrations

    Projectworks Integrations with Your Project Management Tool

    It's 4pm on a Friday. Your project manager has the delivery tool open in one tab, Projectworks in another and a spreadsheet in a third, copying dates, budgets and hours across manually. Projectworks now integrates with any project management tool, and it goes further than that spreadsheet can.

    When the System Goes Down, So Does Everything Else
    business-strategy

    When the System Goes Down, So Does Everything Else

    Martin Brundle spent nine hours going nowhere, stuck on a British Airways plane at Heathrow due to a system failure. This incident highlights a broader issue of system vulnerabilities and their impact on operations, from aviation to business processes.

    Why Nobody on Our Sidekick Webinar Had Used Sidekick Yet
    monday-com

    Why Nobody on Our Sidekick Webinar Had Used Sidekick Yet

    Before we ran our monday Sidekick webinar last week, we asked everyone who registered a simple question: how are you using Sidekick today? The majority answer was that they weren't. Nobody described a rough start or a feature that let them down. They simply hadn't opened it.

    Where We Draw the Line With AI in Our Own Business
    ai-powered

    Where We Draw the Line With AI in Our Own Business

    We use AI across more of our operations every month. The more we use it, the clearer its limits become. It helps us analyse data, monitor projects, summarise calls, clean databases and catch things people would otherwise have to remember themselves. We actively encourage our team to experiment with it.

    What Is monday Sidekick and What Can It Do?
    monday-com

    What Is monday Sidekick and What Can It Do?

    If you already use monday.com, there is a good chance Sidekick is sitting inside your account and you’re still wondering what it does.

    Three monday.com and Make Automations We Recommend
    workflows

    Three monday.com and Make Automations We Recommend

    Q4 is the quarter where operational gaps stop being annoying and start costing money. Leave gets taken, deadlines compress into December, new work arrives from clients trying to spend the rest of their budget, and the same team that was comfortable in August is suddenly making decisions with incomplete information.

    Why OKRs Go Off Track Before the Quarter Even Starts
    operational-visibility

    Why OKRs Go Off Track Before the Quarter Even Starts

    Open last quarter’s OKRs and have a look at the ones you missed. Chances are, the objective itself still sounds perfectly reasonable. Grow revenue from existing clients. Launch a new service. Improve project profitability. Reduce delivery times.

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