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Case discussions and practical guides to connect AI to your operation. Understand an application, recognize a challenge in your team and prepare a first step.
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Three company examples and four original Tenex guides. Attributed sources, illustrative scenarios and exercises to assess what fits your business.
Illustrative industry imageAGRICULTURE · FINDING A STARTING POINT
John Deere’s example offers a way to think about a specific decision, useful information and an action you can check. The approach can inform other applications; the technology and investment are different.
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Illustrative industry imageRETAIL · ORGANIZING THE WORK
A Walmart application raises a practical question: how can scattered tasks become clear next steps for the people running a store?
Read the analysisCOMMERCIAL OPERATIONS · BETTER PREPARATION
DHL’s use of generative AI raises a question familiar to many businesses: how much work happens before someone can start preparing a proposal?
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Illustrative industry imagePRACTICAL GUIDE · tenex.vendas
The customer has already explained what they need. Learn how preferences, objections and commitments can become a useful next step for the sales team.
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A transfer can preserve the work already done. Learn to pass along the history, open issue and responsibility so the customer gets continuity.
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Important information does not always become a transaction. A guide to using observations from farms, stores and construction sites, with enough context for management to act.
Read the guidePRACTICAL GUIDE · tenex.brain
Sales, inventory, purchasing and earlier decisions can reveal something worth examining. Learn what makes a recommendation useful and how to prepare the information behind it.
Read the guideRADAR / IDEAS AND FOUNDATIONS
Writing and conversations that help us think. Dates refer to the original publications; the context and questions are Tenex’s editorial contributions.
In a reflection on agents, Karpathy favors manageable pieces of work, with explanations and verification of the result.
For a business, the practical question is which deliverable your team can review before allowing the next step.
Where would human confirmation make a difference in your workflow?
Willison describes agents as models that use tools, receive their results and keep working toward a goal.
The distinction helps separate a useful conversation from a completed task. Identify which lookups and actions actually need to happen.
What concrete action should follow the message?
In this engineering article, Anthropic recommends starting with simple solutions and adding complexity when the task calls for it.
A starting point might be organizing a request or preparing a handoff. First, define what a useful delivery looks like.
Which part of the routine is worth solving well before expanding?
A foundational reading published in 2024; the tools mentioned have evolved since then.
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