AI Automation

Building automations that hold up in production — agents, orchestration, retrieval, and the cost of running them.

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About AI Automation

This is the implementation category. Everything filed here starts from the same assumption: you have decided that some part of your work should be handled by an AI system, and the interesting problem is no longer whether that is possible but what it takes to make it reliable. That means agent design, tool and retrieval plumbing, the orchestration layer that decides which model handles which step, and the unglamorous parts — retries, observability, and what happens when a model returns confident nonsense.

The articles lean concrete. Where a design choice has a price attached we put the number in, because the gap between a demo and a production automation is usually measured in tokens per task rather than in capability. Where a pattern has a failure mode we describe it, since the failure modes are what you will actually spend your time on. A guide that could not help a real team ship a real automation does not belong in this category.

If you are earlier than that — still deciding what to automate first — the readiness assessment and the ROI calculator in the tools section are the better starting point, and the articles here will make more sense once you know which process you are targeting.

Questions this category answers

  • What an agentic system needs beyond a good model to be dependable
  • How retrieval, memory, and context management actually get wired together
  • Where the cost of an automation accumulates, and which choices move it most
  • Which parts of a workflow are worth automating and which are not yet

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Articles in AI Automation

ai automation8 min read

Sora Died and Gemini Omni Leaked in the Same Week. That's the Whole Story.

Sora shut down on April 26 with $2.1 million in lifetime revenue against inference costs of $1–15 million per day. Six days later, Gemini Omni leaked - a native video model wired directly into Google's reasoning stack. That sequence is not coincidence. It's the standalone gen-AI business model dying in public, and the integration layer being crowned as the next site of defensible value.

Generative AIAI product strategySora
LAXIMA Team
ai automation7 min read

Claude Design: From Prompt to Prototype

Claude Design is Anthropic's new conversational design tool from Anthropic Labs — build prototypes, slide decks, landing pages, and mockups by chatting with Claude on a live canvas. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7 and available in research preview to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers, it turns your brand's codebase and assets into a reusable design system that every project inherits automatically. This guide covers setup, prompting, iteration, exports, admin rollout, and pricing.

claudeclaude designanthropic labs
LAXIMA Team
ai automation23 min read

The Technical Guide to Claude AI (2026): Models, Claude Code, and Enterprise Workflows

Claude's 2026 lineup spans Fable 5, Opus 4.8, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5 — frontier reasoning down to high-volume throughput. But the models are only part of the story: Claude Code runs agents in your terminal, plugins add skills, and Excel connects to live data via MCP. This is the unified technical manual — model comparison, CLI install, plugin marketplace, prompt engineering, and enterprise workflow integration.

ClaudeClaude CodeClaude Fable 5
LAXIMA Team