AI Automation

  • Self-Hosted AI Automation Agents: Lessons From Running Our Own Stack

    By Austen Jones, York Apps · Published 2 July 2026 · Last updated 8 July 2026 Self-hosting AI automation agents gives you full control over your data, execution environment, and costs—but you’ll own every failure too. You’ll need solid DevOps skills, retry logic with backoff, dead letter queues, and idempotency checks to keep production pipelines…

  • Human-in-the-Loop AI: Why Gating the Send Matters More Than the Model

    By Austen Jones, York Apps · Published 2 July 2026 · Last updated 8 July 2026 You’re not losing control of AI at the model level — you’re losing it at the send button. Filters fail, misread context, and get bypassed, but a human reviewer catches what restrictions miss. The moment before you send an…

  • AI Voice Agents and AI Receptionists: What UK Businesses Need to Know

    By Austen Jones, York Apps · Published 2 July 2026 · Last updated 8 July 2026 AI voice agents can handle your inbound calls 24/7, integrating with your CRM, calendar, and VoIP system to automate bookings and capture data in real time. But they’re not flawless — UK accent diversity, emotional misreads, and complex queries…