The Taku Blog
Ideas worth building on.
Stories, product notes, and perspectives on how AI gets discovered, used, remixed, and shared.
August 17, 2026
Agentic AI Architecture: The Five Parts and How They Fit Together
A plain diagram of agentic AI architecture — model, planner, memory, tools, and orchestration — with the patterns teams actually ship and where each one fails.
August 17, 2026
Automating Business Processes: A Step-by-Step Method That Holds Up
How to automate a business process without automating the mess — a six-step method, the strategy questions to answer first, and the four failures that kill projects.
August 17, 2026
Best AI Agents in 2026: What Each One Is Actually Good At
A comparison of the leading AI agents by job — coding, research, computer control, and unattended projects — plus the setup cost nobody mentions.
August 17, 2026
Best AI Business Plan Generator: 7 Tools Compared by What They Output
Which AI business plan generator fits a bank loan, an investor deck, or a first draft — compared on financial modeling, editability, and what still needs a human.
August 17, 2026
Best Decision Automation Solutions for Operations Teams
Decision automation tools compared for ops teams — rules engines, DMN platforms, and AI-assisted decisions, with the governance question that decides which fits.
August 17, 2026
Computer Using Agent: How AI That Clicks and Types Actually Works
A computer using agent controls software by looking at the screen and acting on it. Here's the loop it runs, what it unlocks, and why it's still slow and fragile.
August 17, 2026
Examples of Automation: 14 Workflows Teams Actually Run
Real workflow automation examples from marketing, finance, HR, support, and solo operations — with the trigger, the steps, and where each one tends to break.
August 17, 2026
No Code Integration: Connecting Tools Without Writing Code
How no-code integration actually works, the best no-code platforms by job, and the point where every no-code project runs out of road.
August 17, 2026
Process and Workflow Management: What Each One Actually Means
Workflow management runs the steps. Process management decides whether the steps are right. Here's the difference, why it matters, and how to do both.
August 17, 2026
Workflow Engine: What It Does and Which One You Need
A workflow engine executes and remembers long-running processes. Here's what separates one from an automation tool, plus the open source options compared.
August 15, 2026
Taku 2.0 Is Here: Discover, Remix, Create, and Share AI in One Place
What is Taku 2.0? One place to discover AI apps and workflows other people built, run them without setup, remix them into your own, create from scratch, and share what you make.
August 14, 2026
Cool AI Apps: How to Tell the Keepers From the Demos
Most cool AI apps get opened twice and forgotten. A practical test for which ones survive, what the good categories are, and where Android differs.
August 14, 2026
Best AI Apps for iPhone: What's Actually Worth Installing
A short list of AI apps for iPhone and iPad that earn their space — what each is genuinely best at, which free tiers are real, and what to skip.
August 14, 2026
Business Process Automation Services: What You're Buying
BPA services sell implementation, not software. What providers actually deliver, how engagements are priced, and when you're better off doing it yourself.
August 14, 2026
Coding Agents: What They Do Well and Where They Break
A coding agent runs a write-test-fix loop instead of suggesting lines. The shapes available, what they're genuinely good at, and the failure modes to plan for.
August 14, 2026
Content Automation: Which Parts Actually Automate
Content automation works on the pipeline around writing, not the writing itself. What to automate first, what to leave alone, and how quality collapses.
August 14, 2026
How to Create an AI: The Three Routes, and Which One You Need
Most people asking how to code an AI don't need to train a model. The three real routes to building AI software, what each costs, and how to pick.
August 14, 2026
LLM Agent: What It Is and How It Differs From an LLM
An LLM agent is a language model given tools and a loop, so it can act instead of only answering. What that adds, where it helps, and when it's overkill.
August 14, 2026
Process Management Software: What the Category Actually Covers
Process management software spans documentation, execution, and full BPM platforms. What separates the tiers, what each costs you, and how to avoid overbuying.
August 14, 2026
Product Marketing Tools: The Stack by Job, Not by Category
Product marketing tools sorted by the five jobs the role actually does — research, positioning, launch, content, and enablement — plus where AI helps.
August 14, 2026
Taku 2.0 Beta: Built With Users, Not Just for Them
Why are we calling it Beta? Because the next Taku should be built with its users, not just for them. What to expect, and what we're asking of the first people in.
August 13, 2026
AI Marketplace: What They Are and Which Kind You Need
AI marketplaces split into four types — models, agents, enterprise apps, and tools. What each actually sells, how they differ, and how to judge whether a listing will run.
August 13, 2026
Automation Software: How to Pick the Right Type for the Job
Automation apps fall into four types, and picking the wrong one wastes months. A practical guide to task automation tools, IT automation platforms, and what each is actually for.
August 13, 2026
Best AI for Business: A Shortlist by Company Stage
Which AI tools are worth paying for depends on your stage, not on feature lists. A named shortlist for solo founders, small teams, and growing companies.
August 13, 2026
Building Got Cheap. Distribution Didn't.
AI made building dramatically easier. But shipping is only half the game. Why distribution, discovery, users, and feedback are becoming the real bottlenecks for AI builders.
August 13, 2026
Generative AI Use Cases That Actually Hold Up in Real Work
Most generative AI use case lists are wishful. Here are the categories that survive contact with real workloads, the ones that don't, and how to tell them apart.
August 13, 2026
iPhone Automations: The Triggers Worth Setting Up First
A practical guide to iPhone automations in Shortcuts — every trigger type, which ones run without asking, and the automation ideas people actually keep using.
August 13, 2026
Marketing Automation Platforms: How to Pick Without Regret
Marketing automation programs cluster into four groups by business model. Which group fits ecommerce, B2B SaaS, and services — and the migration costs nobody mentions.
August 13, 2026
ReAct Agent: The Reason-and-Act Loop Explained
A ReAct agent interleaves reasoning with tool calls in a thought-action-observation loop. What the pattern is, how create_agent implements it, and when it's overkill.
August 13, 2026
Workflow AI Tools Compared: Which No-Code Builder Fits Your Work
A comparison of AI workflow builders and no-code automation platforms — what each is genuinely good at, how the pricing models differ, and which to pick for your situation.
August 13, 2026
Workflow Examples: 8 Real Processes Written Out Step by Step
Concrete workflow examples from hiring, support, content, and finance — written as actual steps, plus the four workflow shapes every process fits into.
August 12, 2026
Agent-Based Modeling: A Practical Introduction
Agent-based modeling simulates individual actors to study emergent behaviour. Core concepts, classic models, the main software, and when ABM beats equations.
August 12, 2026
Agentic Workflows: What They Are and When to Use One
An agentic workflow lets a model decide its own steps. How that differs from a fixed pipeline, the four patterns worth knowing, and when not to use one.
August 12, 2026
AI Agent Builders: No-Code, Low-Code and Custom
How AI agent builders differ, when a no-code platform is enough, and why most problems people call agents are better solved as fixed workflows.
August 12, 2026
AI Employees: What the Term Means and What It Doesn't
"AI employee" is a marketing frame for scoped agents doing specific tasks. What actually works today, what fails, and how to evaluate the claim honestly.
August 12, 2026
Best AI Tools for Business: Picking by Job, Not Hype
A practical guide to choosing AI tools for business — the six jobs they actually do, how to evaluate them, and why most adoption stalls after the trial.
August 12, 2026
Business Process Automation Tools: How to Pick One
A practical comparison of business process automation tools — what integration platforms, RPA, and BPM suites each actually do, and which shape fits your problem.
August 12, 2026
Claude Skills: How They Work and How to Build One
Claude Skills are folders that teach Claude a repeatable task. How progressive disclosure keeps them cheap, where they run, and how to build your first one.
August 12, 2026
What Is an Agent? The Business and Legal Definition
An agent is someone authorised to act on another's behalf. What that means in business and law, the duties it creates, and how it differs from an AI agent.
August 12, 2026
Business Process Automation: Definition and Examples
What business process automation means, how BPA differs from BPM and RPA, and eight concrete examples of processes teams automate first.
August 12, 2026
Enterprise Workflow Automation: How to Evaluate It
What separates enterprise workflow automation from lighter tools — governance, audit, scale — and the evaluation questions that predict whether it works.
August 12, 2026
How to Create Software: A Realistic Path for Beginners
What building software actually involves in 2026 — the four routes from idea to working product, and how to pick one without wasting six months.
August 12, 2026
Integration Software: How to Choose the Right Kind
Integration tools span trigger-based automation, ETL, ESB and point-to-point. What each shape solves, the questions that predict failure, and how to avoid overbuying.
August 12, 2026
Intelligent Process Automation: What It Is and When It Works
Intelligent process automation adds AI to rule-based automation. What IPA actually changes, where it beats RPA, and the tasks it should never own.
August 12, 2026
IT Process Automation: Where to Start and What to Avoid
IT process automation covers provisioning, patching, incident response and more. Which processes to automate first, and the failure modes that cause outages.
August 12, 2026
Offline AI: How to Run AI Models Locally
Running AI locally means no API bills and no data leaving your machine. What hardware you need, which models fit, and where local still loses to the cloud.
August 12, 2026
Low-Code vs No-Code: The Difference That Matters
Low-code and no-code aren't a spectrum of the same thing. Who each is built for, where both hit a ceiling, and how AI has changed the calculation.
August 12, 2026
Workflow Management Software: What to Look For
Workflow programs range from shared checklists to full process engines. How the categories differ, what free tiers really cover, and how to pick without overbuying.
August 12, 2026
How to Streamline Business Processes (Without Just Adding Tools)
Streamlining means removing steps, not speeding them up. What the word actually means, the four wastes to look for, and why automation should come last.
August 12, 2026
Why Most AI Tools End Up in Your Bookmarks
AI tools are everywhere, but actually using them is still harder than it should be. We don't have an AI discovery problem anymore. We have an AI usability problem.
August 11, 2026
Why We Built an OS for AI — and What Taku 1.0 Taught Us
AI could already write code in 2025. It just couldn't do anything with it. Taku 1.0 was our answer, and the industry spent the next nine months proving the thesis right.
