Thoughts and ideas on how to build tools, automate workflows and speed-up the workplace.
AI workflow tools are becoming a more and more common feature of all sorts of internal processes. With new technologies and ever-greater pressure to maximize efficiency, these are fast becoming mission-critical. However, at the same time, this is becoming a highly crowded space. On the one hand, a number of vendors have brought solutions to market over the past few years, enabling us to implement AI within our workflows. On the other hand, AI-driven workflow automation is just one option among many for building efficiency within internal processes.
Ronan McQuillan
Jul 11, 2025
IT teams are under greater pressure than ever before. With tightening budgets and exploding demand for services, almost all teams are considering strategies to build efficiency into their internal processes. As a result, the need for effective ITSM automation has never been greater. However, this is a broad, highly varied topic. That is ITSM workflows present a range of different challenges, many of which are suitable to distinct automation approaches.
Ronan McQuillan
Jul 3, 2025
Today, there’s greater pressure than ever for organizations to achieve maximum efficiency across all sorts of workflows and processes. However, the landscape for how this can be achieved has shifted in recent years. Specifically, more and more teams are turning to AI-powered solutions where once they might have relied solely on traditional workflow automations. But does this mean that every automation use case should be replaced with an AI solution?
Ronan McQuillan
Jul 1, 2025
AI agents are becoming more and more common across businesses of all kinds. While the benefits of agentic AI are massive and well documented, their emergence nonetheless presents important challenges for developers. In large part, this comes down to the fact that agents are highly complex systems. To alleviate this, a range of tools are available to speed up and simplify the process of AI agent development. These vary in both scope and approach, aiming to empower a range of different user personas to create agentic systems.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 30, 2025
AI forms are becoming a more and more prominent part of daily life. By offering more efficient, reliable data collection, they have great potential to transform and enhance a wide range of workflows and processes. However, this is also a broad category of tools, covering a range of use cases and different AI-powered techniques and functions. Today, we’re covering everything you need to know in order to roll out effective AI forms.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 26, 2025
Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and fine-tuning are two of the key techniques that we can use to improve the output of AI-powered tools within a specific domain. However, they are far from interchangeable. Indeed, each one is a distinct technique, with its own use cases, benefits, challenges, and requirements. Today, we’re exploring what each one is, where they differ, and how we can leverage them within our own development projects.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 25, 2025
AI agents are one of the most transformative new technologies we’ve seen in decades. Because of this, teams in all industries are rushing to implement agentic solutions. At the same time, a huge number of vendors have come to market with tools for building and managing AI agents. However, these can vary greatly. On the one hand, there are highly developer-focused platforms and frameworks, while on the other, there are no-code tools, aimed at non-technical colleagues.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 23, 2025
With the ongoing rise of generative AI, chatbots are becoming more and more prevalent. This includes a huge range of use cases across all industries. Chatbots are also becoming more sophisticated, including taking autonomous actions based on conversations with users. So, developers must be familiar with the tools and techniques that are required to output chatbot solutions. Today, we’re diving deep into an important subtopic within this, by checking out two of the most common communications techniques we’re going to encounter - Chatbot APIs and WebSockets.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 13, 2025