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DEEP DIVES

Deep Dives

Multi-part freemium guides for people and agents building real AI workflows. Early parts of each series are free.

12 lessons · 5 free · Full curriculum

Build your own agent back office (CJS case study)

  1. Free Why a back office beats a lone agent
    Use CJS's internal agent office as a case study in separating intake, coordination, specialist work, and approval. Design a small back office with visible ownership and clear limits.
  2. Free Roles and ownership
    Translate CJS's internal role patterns into clear responsibilities, review gates, and handoffs. Build a local ownership map that distinguishes preparing work from authorizing consequential actions.
  3. Free Intake and the front desk
    Learn from CJS's internal Secretary pattern to capture requests, separate routing from approval, and handle uncertain or consequential work. Practice a local front-desk workflow without calling APIs or taking external actions.
  4. Premium Routines and the Office floor
    Scheduled runs, status reporting, and the stale-agent problem — with a lightweight runbook template you can adapt.
  5. Premium Deploy gate and Codex offload
    Who may change the live site; draft → verify → publish; when to hand long work to Codex and what never goes in the prompt.
  6. Premium Ship checklist and a minimal starter layout
    Folder/API sketch, first-week checklist, and what to leave to Infrastructure — finishing the back-office build.

Add a decision layer: JEV on defapi without exposing keys

  1. Free What JEV is (and is not)
    Understand JEV as a non-generative decision model, identify useful routing and ranking tasks, and keep its suggestions inside clear authority limits.
  2. Free Where it sits in an agent stack
    Place JEV behind an internal decision service, preserve existing authority and fallbacks, and design a shadow-first workflow before making any provider calls.
  3. Premium Designing a small decision catalog
    Named decisions, versioned questions, and thresholds — start with 3–5 decisions such as priority, station, and grounded_check.
  4. Premium Keys, redaction, and calling defapi safely
    Server-only secrets; redact PII before calls; no keys in prompts, repos, or browser; failure modes when the endpoint is down.
  5. Premium Budgets, cache, circuit breaker
    Daily caps, cache keys, breaker behaviour, and fallback to today’s rules when the decision layer is unavailable.
  6. Premium Eval set and going live
    Labelled examples, shadow mode, random audit, kill switch, and a checklist before leaving shadow.