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Notes from the automation front line.
Practical posts on business automation, AI in production, and the integration patterns that actually hold up. New writing every week.
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Anthropic's managed agents make the build-your-own runtime a hard sell
Anthropic shipped Claude Managed Agents at $0.08 per session-hour earlier this month. The pricing flips the build-vs-buy calculation for small and mid-market teams that were quoted custom agent infrastructure last quarter. Here's the math, the failure mode, and the two cases where building still wins.
Dustin Landry- automation
- ai
- agents
- pricing
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When an agent is the wrong tool, and when a workflow is
Microsoft just shipped a Copilot Studio update that treats agents as a step inside a structured workflow, not a replacement for one. The design choice behind that feature is the right way to think about every automation project this year.
Dustin Landry- automation
- ai
- agents
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Welcome to the Stack7 Labs blog
Why we're starting a blog about business automation and AI, and what you can expect from it week over week.
Dustin Landry- automation
- ai
- operations
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How to pick between Zapier, n8n, and Make now that they all run AI agents
Zapier, n8n, and Make all shipped agentic features this quarter. The feature comparison doesn't matter as much as it used to. What matters now is which pricing model blows up first when you put real agents in front of real volume.
Dustin Landry- automation
- ai
- pricing
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