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AI automation guides for recurring work
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Practical guides for teams that want AI agents to handle research, reporting and admin on a schedule. Each guide explains the method, the controls that keep it safe and how to set it up in Crons.
Weekly price watch
Run #491 · 33s
Every Monday at 07:30
- Capture pricing pages 13.4s
- Diff against last week 2.0s
- Filter cosmetic changes 13.5s
- Send the digest 5.3s
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October 15, 2026 · 9 min read
How to choose AI automation tools for recurring business work
A practical buyer's guide to AI automation tools. Learn the five categories, what each one is good at, and the checklist that separates a demo from a tool you can trust every week.
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October 15, 2026 · 9 min read
How to build AI agents that run on a schedule
Eight practical steps to build an AI agent that does recurring work on its own, from writing the outcome to testing with a dry run and watching the run log.
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October 15, 2026 · 9 min read
AI cron jobs explained with cron syntax and examples
What an AI cron job is, how the five fields of cron syntax work, why plain English schedules are easier to get right, and how timezones and daylight saving time affect your runs.
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October 15, 2026 · 9 min read
Competitor price monitoring software that runs every week on its own
A practical weekly playbook for tracking competitor pricing pages, filtering out noise and sending a clean digest to Slack that your team actually reads.
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October 15, 2026 · 9 min read
Designing a human in the loop AI agent that knows when to wait
A practical guide to choosing which agent actions need a person, with a risk table, timeout rules, approver roles, audit trails and dry runs.
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Put your recurring work on a schedule
Describe the job in one sentence and see the schedule, steps and a sample result before you create an account.