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The AI agent category map — every tool, where they fit
Every vendor calls itself an AI agent platform. They don't all do the same thing. Here's the honest map of the category in April 2026 — and where each player actually sits.
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Product decisions, engineering deep dives, and real-world stories from teams shipping autonomous workflows.
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Introducing Swarm Mode: agents that work as a team
One agent can do a lot. A coordinated team of agents can do what an entire department does. Swarm Mode spawns parallel workers under a single orchestrator — so your hardest workflows ship in hours, not weeks.
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Why your AI agent should represent you, not a role
Most AI agent platforms build 'a recruiter' or 'a sales rep.' A generic role. Those agents will be fungible forever. The agents that actually scale expertise represent a specific person.
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We read 100 AI agent pricing pages. Here's what's broken.
Pricing in AI-agents is a mess. Effort-based, seat-based, task-based, token-based, credit-based — sometimes all at once. We read 100 pricing pages and found four patterns worth calling out.
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Inside Ohana — how a team runs on agents
NYC's largest medium-term housing platform runs an agent for every teammate. Three weeks after starting, they call it 'Ohana 3.0.' Here's the deep dive on what they built and why it worked.
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Introducing Spawn Workflows: automation that thinks
Chain agents into multi-step pipelines with triggers, conditions, and parallel execution. The building blocks for autonomous operations.
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Why oil & gas is the perfect wedge for AI agents
A $4 trillion industry running on spreadsheets, email chains, and manual processes. Here's why agent-first automation starts in heavy industry.
$ spawn run artifact
→ streaming...
→ 12 steps · 2.1s
→ docx ✓ · pptx ✓ · xlsx ✓
→ artifact ready at /a/9f3e2
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How we built the artifact system
The engineering behind Spawn's real-time artifact rendering — how agents produce Word docs, dashboards, and live apps in a streaming interface.
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Memory that compounds: how Spawn agents learn your business
Every session makes the next one better. How persistent memory turns Spawn from a tool into a teammate that knows your context.
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Agent-powered procurement: from tender to award in hours
How an upstream operator replaced weeks of manual bid evaluation with a single agent workflow — and what it means for procurement teams.
“Superhuman agents for the real economy.
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The Spawn Labs thesis: superhuman agents for the real economy
The best work used to require the best people, in the right room, at the right time. Now it requires the right skill and an agent that never stops.
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