SEARCH & KNOWLEDGE
Build a knowledge assistant that can show its sources
A small, testable answer desk: approved documents, supported claims and an honest “I don’t know.”
LESS HYPE. MORE HOW.
Put AI
to useful work.
A field guide to the work behind the demo. Learn how to build a checked workflow, test a useful assistant and read the research with context.
01 / THE PRACTICAL GUIDES
Start with a specific job.
Original step-by-step guides with worked examples and a clear way to check the result.
LANGUAGE & DOCUMENTS
Turn a document into a checked record
Define the fields, retain the source and catch arithmetic mistakes before a value reaches another system.
CODING & DEVELOPMENT
Test a coding assistant on your own work
Choose realistic tasks, preserve the acceptance checks and count the review effort as part of the result.
AGENTS & AUTOMATION
Design an automation with a clear approval step
Separate a proposed action from permission to execute it. Make retries, rejection and ownership explicit.
02 / RESEARCH SIGNALS
Keep a useful reading habit.
Research and open-source metadata, selected by topic keywords. No invented scores or generated news summaries.
- Search & knowledge
- Search & knowledge
- Language & documents
- Agents & automation
- Language & documents
- Agents & automation
- Search & knowledge
- Agents & automation / Trust & evaluation
- Agents & automation
- Language & documents
No matching signals.
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03 / THE WORKFLOW LAB
Sketch the whole process.
Illustrative workflow studies. These diagrams describe a design; they do not execute actions or access your data.
An inbox assistant should prepare the handoff.
- 1. Collect
Read an incoming request without granting it system permissions.
- 2. Organize
Draft a category and capture missing information.
- 3. Review
A person confirms the destination and response.
- 4. Record
Send the accepted request once, with an audit reference.
Measure correct routing, review time and duplicate submissions.
04 / WHY THIS DESK EXISTS
Useful is something
you can check.
Practical Intelligence is a learning publication about applying AI to actual work. Our original guides use illustrative examples and link to primary references. Our reading desk brings licensed metadata together without copying the original articles.
For published model and agent scores, visit our companion FindEverythingAI benchmark index. Here, the focus is the process: what to build, what to test and what needs a person.
FROM READING TO DOING
Leave with a brief you can test.
A small planning exercise helps connect an interesting idea to a bounded piece of work.
Build your pilot brief
Define the task, authorized inputs, reviewer, test cases and stopping conditions. Download it locally.
Explore → Build your pilot briefDesign controlled automation
Separate proposals from actions and make rejection, retries and recovery part of the design.
Explore → Design controlled automationMeet the publication
Our purpose, source policy, reading tools and a route for corrections.
Explore → Meet the publication