Working notes from the people who build the agents
September 21, 2026 · Reqmint
Variable-hour contractors drift over the 30-hour full-time line inside a measurement period and nobody notices until the offer window has closed. Here is the hours-accumulation table, the SQL that ranks who is trending over, and the escalation rules an agent should follow.
Read moreSeptember 18, 2026 · Reqmint
Back-office agents rarely fail loudly. They fail by going quiet: a rotated token, a renamed field, a paused schedule. Here is the monitoring layer we build alongside every agent — a run log, per-stage counters, staleness checks on the work itself, and a digest a named human reads.
Read moreSeptember 17, 2026 · Reqmint
Hours worked against an exhausted purchase order are a negotiation, not revenue. This walkthrough builds a burn-down agent: a PO table with real caps, consumption in three buckets, a burn-rate projection, four rules, and a drafted extension request a human sends.
Read moreSeptember 16, 2026 · Reqmint
Redeployment and chase outreach ends up in SMS, and TCPA revocation liability stays with the staffing firm. The two tables and the single send gate that let an agent text contractors and answer for every message it sent.
Read moreSeptember 15, 2026 · Reqmint
Model and API spend arrives as one monthly invoice with no idea which workflow spent it. This walkthrough builds the run ledger: one row per run, cost captured at the step, cost per outcome rather than per token, a cap that stops a runaway loop, and the monthly query that tells you which agent to switch off.
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