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Lessons from building and deploying agentic AI systems for real businesses. Written by Ned Malki, founder of Ottomato.

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2026-03-18

Why Most AI Automations Fail (And What to Build Instead)

The difference between an AI demo and an AI system comes down to three things: monitoring, feedback loops, and a plan for when things break.

2026-03-10

Voice Agents Are the New Front Desk

We deployed a voice receptionist for a medical practice in Switzerland. It handles rescheduling, cancellations, and after-hours triage without a single missed call.

2026-03-01

Multi-Agent Workflows: Beyond the Hype

One agent is a tool. Multiple agents coordinating on a shared goal is infrastructure. Here is how we think about orchestration for real business operations.

2026-02-20

RAG Done Right: Lessons from 12 Deployments

Retrieval-augmented generation sounds simple until you try it at scale. Chunking strategy, embedding model choice, and reranking make or break the system.

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