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Writing from Sawhorse Engineering on workflow automation platforms.
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- 26 September 2026Recurring dog walks with exceptions that do not duplicateSeparate a standing walking arrangement from each visit so holidays, cover and one-off changes do not corrupt the next week of work.
- 26 September 2026Reviewed cleaning hours from rota to payroll exportKeep planned shifts, attendance events, approved hours and exported records distinct so corrections remain traceable across the payroll handoff.
- 26 September 2026Site consumables replenishment without duplicate ordersConnect site counts, approved replenishment and delivery receipts while keeping requested, ordered and available stock separate.
- 26 September 2026Cleaning cover swaps that preserve site access rulesA replacement cleaner needs more than an empty shift. Model eligibility, access instructions, acceptance and handover as part of cover scheduling.
- 26 September 2026Service request forms that give dispatch useful informationAsk for enough context to route a home-service request without turning the first contact into a diagnostic questionnaire or a false booking confirmation.
- 23 September 2026How to tell whether a task is an AI problemFour questions that separate work worth evaluating with a model from work that belongs in ordinary code.
- 16 September 2026Guardrails for AI agents that take real actionsAn agent with tools can change your data. The controls that matter are enforced in code, not requested in a prompt.
- 15 September 2026Idempotency: the idea that prevents duplicate everythingA lost response can turn a reasonable retry into a duplicate order, email or charge. Idempotency helps, but its boundary must include the actual effect.
- 13 September 2026Automations that stop when the customer repliesThe most damaging automation failure is not a missed send. It is a sequence that keeps chasing someone who already answered.
- 10 September 2026When to use an orchestrator and when to write codeA workflow tool and a service solve the same problems differently. Four criteria that settle which one a specific process needs.
- 8 September 2026Dead letter queues, and why silence is the worst failureA failed integration needs a visible recovery path. Retry budgets, failed work queues and reconciliation prevent errors from disappearing into logs.
- 5 September 2026Webhooks done properlyReceiving webhooks is easy. Receiving them so that duplicates, replays, out of order delivery and outages do not corrupt your data takes six specific things.
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