Tips for Integrating Autonomous Systems

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Summary

Integrating autonomous systems means combining machines or software that can make decisions and act independently into existing business processes or technical environments. These systems, powered by artificial intelligence, are designed to handle tasks with minimal human input, making workflows more efficient and reliable.

  • Map existing processes: Carefully document and redesign your current workflows to suit autonomous systems, removing steps that were only needed for human intervention.
  • Prioritize modular design: Build your system in separate parts for planning, reasoning, memory, and action so you can swap out or update components as technology improves.
  • Maintain human oversight: Set up ways for people to monitor, override, or guide autonomous systems especially in critical or unexpected situations.
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  • View profile for Aishwarya Srinivasan
    Aishwarya Srinivasan Aishwarya Srinivasan is an Influencer
    633,657 followers

    If you are building AI agents or learning about them, then you should keep these best practices in mind 👇 Building agentic systems isn’t just about chaining prompts anymore, it’s about designing robust, interpretable, and production-grade systems that interact with tools, humans, and other agents in complex environments. Here are 10 essential design principles you need to know: ➡️ Modular Architectures Separate planning, reasoning, perception, and actuation. This makes your agents more interpretable and easier to debug. Think planner-executor separation in LangGraph or CogAgent-style designs. ➡️ Tool-Use APIs via MCP or Open Function Calling Adopt the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or OpenAI’s Function Calling to interface safely with external tools. These standard interfaces provide strong typing, parameter validation, and consistent execution behavior. ➡️ Long-Term & Working Memory Memory is non-optional for non-trivial agents. Use hybrid memory stacks, vector search tools like MemGPT or Marqo for retrieval, combined with structured memory systems like LlamaIndex agents for factual consistency. ➡️ Reflection & Self-Critique Loops Implement agent self-evaluation using ReAct, Reflexion, or emerging techniques like Voyager-style curriculum refinement. Reflection improves reasoning and helps correct hallucinated chains of thought. ➡️ Planning with Hierarchies Use hierarchical planning: a high-level planner for task decomposition and a low-level executor to interact with tools. This improves reusability and modularity, especially in multi-step or multi-modal workflows. ➡️ Multi-Agent Collaboration Use protocols like AutoGen, A2A, or ChatDev to support agent-to-agent negotiation, subtask allocation, and cooperative planning. This is foundational for open-ended workflows and enterprise-scale orchestration. ➡️ Simulation + Eval Harnesses Always test in simulation. Use benchmarks like ToolBench, SWE-agent, or AgentBoard to validate agent performance before production. This minimizes surprises and surfaces regressions early. ➡️ Safety & Alignment Layers Don’t ship agents without guardrails. Use tools like Llama Guard v4, Prompt Shield, and role-based access controls. Add structured rate-limiting to prevent overuse or sensitive tool invocation. ➡️ Cost-Aware Agent Execution Implement token budgeting, step count tracking, and execution metrics. Especially in multi-agent settings, costs can grow exponentially if unbounded. ➡️ Human-in-the-Loop Orchestration Always have an escalation path. Add override triggers, fallback LLMs, or route to human-in-the-loop for edge cases and critical decision points. This protects quality and trust. PS: If you are interested to learn more about AI Agents and MCP, join the hands-on workshop, I am hosting on 31st May: https://lnkd.in/dWyiN89z If you found this insightful, share this with your network ♻️ Follow me (Aishwarya Srinivasan) for more AI insights and educational content.

  • View profile for Pradeep Sanyal

    Chief AI Officer | Enterprise AI Transformation | Former CIO & CTO | Board Advisor | Implementing Agentic Systems

    23,505 followers

    Agent startups are still solving the wrong problem. They’re building agents. They should be fixing workflows. Most enterprise processes were never designed for autonomy. They were designed for humans: approvals, emails, handoffs, multi-layer signoffs. Bolt LLM agents onto these legacy flows, and you get chaos, not acceleration. If I were starting an agent company today, I would not start with the agent. I would start with the system design. 1. Map the real workflow, not the imagined one Find the high-frequency processes that drain hours daily: invoice matching, vendor onboarding, document QA. Map every step. Most are artifacts of old tools or compliance folklore, not true necessities. 2. Redesign for agent-native execution Autonomy requires new architectures. Agents don’t wait for emails or chase approvals. They act. So the workflow must shift: • Replace approvals with policy-based validation. • Convert serial handoffs into parallel, traceable states. • Use state machines, not inboxes, as the backbone. 3. Build observability before autonomy Logging, rollback, human escalation paths, and clear state tracking must be there from day one. You are not deploying a chatbot. You are deploying a system that must earn trust in production environments. 4. Deploy agents like interns, not replacements Start narrow. Let the agent handle three steps in a ten-step process. Let humans intervene when judgment or context is required. Expand scope only after reliability is proven. 5. Integrate where work actually happens Agents should operate inside ServiceNow, Jira, shared drives, compliance tools. Not in separate demo sandboxes. You drive adoption by being in the operational loop, not beside it. 6. Optimize for predictability, not flash An agent that completes 25 percent of tasks with high explainability and zero surprises will beat one that is 95 percent capable but erratic. The real game is not building smarter agents for broken processes. It is building smarter processes where agents can thrive. This is how you get durable ROI from agentic AI. Not in hackathons. Not in pitch decks. In production.

  • View profile for Nick Tudor

    CEO/CTO & Co-Founder, Whitespectre | Advisor | Investor

    14,104 followers

    I’ve seen too many ambitious AIoT projects stumble, not because the technology wasn't capable, but because companies rushed towards automation without building the foundational trust and resilience required. True autonomous operations don’t just happen; they are engineered with intent. From years of seeing what actually ships, this framework outlines the ten essential pillars your enterprise needs to achieve self-healing, self-optimizing, and truly trusted automation: ➞ 1. Connected Assets Autonomy starts with visibility. Machines and sensors must reliably stream real-time data across devices and networks for effective decision-making. ➞ 2. High-Quality Data Pipelines Automation depends on clean, contextualized data. IoT signals must be validated and enriched before AI systems can interpret them. ➞ 3. Real-Time Observability Continuous monitoring of performance, drift, and failures is critical - you can’t automate what you can’t observe or measure. ➞ 4. Intelligent Event Detection AI filters noise from millions of telemetry points, identifying meaningful events, anomalies, and failures in real time. ➞ 5. Agentic Decision Engines AI agents autonomously interpret context, plan actions, and coordinate workflows - executing decisions instantly without human approval. ➞ 6. Automated Remediation When issues arise, systems must act automatically - restarting services, rerouting traffic, or recalibrating operations as needed. ➞ 7. Edge Intelligence Not every process belongs in the cloud. Edge AI ensures low-latency, resilient operations by processing data closer to its source. ➞ 8. Human-in-the-Loop Governance Autonomy still requires oversight. Humans set guardrails, review exceptions, and approve high-risk actions when necessary. ➞ 9. Continuous Learning & Optimization AI agents constantly retrain on new data, learning from past outcomes to enhance performance and reduce future errors. ➞ 10. Trust, Security & Compliance Autonomous systems must be secure, explainable, and compliant to scale safely - without compromising enterprise trust or accountability. Summary: Autonomous operations aren’t just about automation - they’re about visibility, intelligence, and trust. When powered by reliable data and governed AI, enterprises can build systems that run, heal, and evolve on their own. 🔁 Repost if you're building for the real world, not just connected demos. ➕ Follow Nick Tudor for more insights on AI + IoT that actually ship.

  • View profile for Brij Kishore Pandey
    Brij Kishore Pandey Brij Kishore Pandey is an Influencer

    AI Architect & AI Engineer | Building Agentic Systems & Scalable AI Solutions

    727,415 followers

    Missing the Agentic AI Revolution? Here's Your Roadmap to Get Started If you're not exploring Agentic AI yet, you're missing the biggest paradigm shift since the emergence of LLMs themselves. While others are still perfecting prompts, forward-thinking teams are building systems that can autonomously plan, reason, and execute complex workflows with minimal supervision. The gap between organizations leveraging truly autonomous AI and those using basic prompt-response systems is widening daily. But don't worry—getting started is more accessible than you might think. Here's a practical roadmap to implementing your first agentic AI system: 1. 𝗕𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 – Choose a specific task with clear boundaries where automation would provide immediate value. Document research, competitive analysis, or data processing workflows are excellent starting points. 2. 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝘁 – An agent's power comes from the tools it can access. Start with simple tools like web search, calculator functions, and data retrieval capabilities before adding more complex integrations. 3. 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 – The ReAct (Reasoning + Acting) pattern dramatically improves reliability by having your agent think explicitly before acting. This simple structure of Thought → Action → Observation → Thought will transform your results. 4. 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 – Don't overlook this critical component. Even a simple vector store to maintain context and retrieve relevant information will significantly enhance your agent's capabilities. 5. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 – LangGraph, LlamaIndex, and CrewAI provide solid foundations without reinventing the wheel. They offer battle-tested patterns for orchestration, memory management, and tool integration. The most important step? Just start building. Your first implementation doesn't need to be perfect. Begin with a minimal viable agent, collect feedback, and iterate rapidly. What specific use case would you tackle first with an autonomous agent? What's holding you back from getting started?

  • View profile for Alex Ostrovskyy

    Enterprise AI&MLOps Architect | 10 Years of Hands-on AI on 19-Year Software Engineering Career | I Make AI Deliver Real Business Value

    1,919 followers

    Stop trying to build one massive AI agent. You're setting yourself up for hallucinations and latency spikes. Here are 5 architectural patterns that separate fragile demos from robust, production systems. ⬇️ I see too many teams struggle because they treat agent development like advanced prompt engineering. It's not just about prompts—it's about architecture. The 'just chat with it' phase is over. Building production-grade agents requires real engineering. 1. Decomposing Workflows Break down complex tasks into smaller, specialized agents. Have a 'supervisor' agent route requests to the right specialist—one for understanding user intent, another for retrieving data, a third for complex reasoning. This approach simplifies maintenance and makes scaling much easier. 2. Future-Proofing Your Architecture The complex logic you build today could become a single API call tomorrow as models improve. The field is moving incredibly fast. Design your system in a modular way, so you can easily swap out custom components when a better, native solution becomes available. 3. Embedding Multimodality Text-only is no longer enough. The best agent systems are built with multimodality from day one. They can process user images, understand visual context, and even generate visual outputs. Don't treat it as an add-on; it's fundamental for a complete and accurate solution. 4. Leveraging Open Protocols Stop wasting engineering cycles on custom API wrappers. Adopt open standards for both agent-to-agent (A2A) and agent-to-tool communication (MCP). This allows your decomposed agents (see point #1) to collaborate seamlessly and lets them dynamically discover and use tools with a standardized format. You're building a scalable ecosystem, not a maintenance nightmare of fragile, custom integrations. 5. Separating Reasoning & Execution Never let an LLM perform calculations or write directly to a database. That's a critical mistake. Use the LLM for what it's good at: reasoning and understanding intent. Then, force its output into a strict format (like a Pydantic model), validate it, and pass it to reliable, deterministic code for the actual execution. Let the LLM think, let your code do. Building reliable agents is a serious engineering challenge. Respect the fundamentals. What's the biggest architectural lesson you've learned building AI agents? ♻️ Repost this if you find it useful. 🔔 Follow me for more on production AI. #AgenticAI #MLOps #EnterpriseArchitecture #AIStrategy

  • View profile for Piyush Ranjan

    29k+ Followers | AVP| Tech Lead | Forbes Technology Council| | Thought Leader | Artificial Intelligence | Cloud Transformation | AWS| Cloud Native| Banking Domain | Google Vertex AI

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    AI Agent System Blueprint: A Modular Guide to Scalable Intelligence We’ve entered a new era where AI agents aren’t just assistants—they’re autonomous collaborators that reason, access tools, share context, and talk to each other. This powerful blueprint lays out the foundational building blocks for designing enterprise-grade AI agent systems that go beyond basic automation: 🔹 1. Input/Output Layer Your agents are no longer limited to text. With multimodal support, users can interact using documents, images, video, and audio. A chat-first UI ensures accessibility across use cases and platforms. 🔹 2. Orchestration Layer This is the core scaffolding. Use development frameworks, SDKs, tracing tools, guardrails, and evaluation pipelines to create safe, responsive, and modular agents. Orchestration is what transforms a basic chatbot into a powerful autonomous system. 🔹 3. Data & Tools Layer Agents need context to be truly helpful. By plugging into enterprise databases (vector + semantic) and third-party APIs via an MCP server, you enrich agents with relevant, real-time information. Think Stripe, Slack, Brave… integrated at speed. 🔹 4. Reasoning Layer Where logic meets autonomy. The reasoning engine separates agents from monolithic bots by enabling decision-making and smart tool usage. Choose between LRMs (e.g. o3), LLMs (e.g. Gemini Flash, Sonnet), or SLMs (e.g. Gemma 3) depending on your application’s depth and latency needs. 🔹 5. Agent Interoperability Real scalability happens when your agents talk to each other. Using the A2A protocol, enable multi-agent collaboration—Sales Agents coordinating with Documentation Agents, Research Agents syncing with Deployment Agents, and more. Single-agent thinking is outdated. 🔁 It’s no longer about building a bot. It’s about engineering a distributed, intelligent agent ecosystem. 📌 Save this blueprint. Share it with your product, data, or AI team. Because building smart agents isn’t a trend—it’s a strategic advantage. 🔍 Are your AI systems still monolithic, or are they evolving into agentic networks?

  • View profile for Emma Shad

    #1 Most Followed Voice in AI Growth, Product & Personal Branding| Architect of AI-Native Leadership |AI, Venture Capital & Innovation Ecosystems |Keynote Speaker | Helping Execs & Investors Build Authority & Visibility

    140,674 followers

    The era of AI tools is over. Welcome to AI teammates. We’re now building autonomous agents that operate like team members. These agents are more than personas. They're modular, trained, role-specific assistants that can: - Execute repeatable workflows - Interpret and adapt based on uploaded data - Hold persistent memory of your style, tone, or SOPs - Integrate with APIs, tools, and automation stacks Here’s how to leverage them strategically — not just play with them: ✅ 1. Treat your agent like you're hiring an ops lead Think in terms of delegation, not automation. Write a role description. Define its scope. Explain what “done well” looks like. The clearer the initial “onboarding,” the better the performance. ✅ 2. Build with process, not just prompts Upload reference documents (templates, decks, SOPs). Guide it through your systems and workflows. Remember: AI needs context to become competent. ✅ 3. Anchor it to a specific business function General assistants give general outputs. But an “Investor Memo GPT” or “Weekly Analytics GPT” gets to business faster. Function > title. ✅ 4. Use feedback loops aggressively Agents improve with structured input. Keep a running log of breakdowns, weak spots, and edge cases. Update your instructions like you would a knowledge base or playbook. ✅ 5. Operationalize with real stakes Move beyond play. Deploy agents where they reduce real friction: Client onboarding, lead follow-ups, performance reports, etc. Start with low-risk, high-frequency tasks. Then scale. This isn’t another toy. This is the beginning of a new interface between leadership and execution. 💡 Want to see the full framework I use to deploy GPT agents across sales, content, and research ops? 📩 Subscribe here to get it → https://lnkd.in/gCV3_Raw

  • The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, National Security Agency, and other cybersecurity agencies Published “Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services” providing a detailed framework for securely deploying, operating, and governing agentic AI systems. This joint guidance focuses on the unique risks introduced by AI systems capable of autonomously making decisions, using tools, and taking actions with limited human intervention, and recommends a “secure by default” approach. Some of the recommendations include: • Adopt a phased deployment approach by starting with low-risk use cases, limiting permissions and autonomy initially, and progressively expanding capabilities based on ongoing evaluation and oversight. • Implement strong guardrails and constraints, including explicit “do-not-do” rules, deny lists, safety policies, sandboxing, and layered controls to reduce the risk of harmful or unintended actions. • Maintain meaningful human oversight as a central control mechanism for high-impact or irreversible actions. The document recommends clear human approval checkpoints , defined accountability structures, and escalation procedures for sensitive operations. • Apply strict privilege and authentication controls by limiting agents to the minimum access required, using just-in-time credentials, continuously validating authorization, and preventing agents from modifying their own privileges. • Use continuous monitoring and comprehensive logging to track agent reasoning, tool usage, decisions, identity changes, and anomalous behavior in real time. The guidance stresses that monitoring should extend beyond inputs and outputs to include internal agent processes. • Conduct red teaming and scenario-based testing before and after deployment to identify prompt injection risks, emergent behaviors, attempts to evade safeguards, and other unexpected system interactions. • Strengthen resilience through fail-safe defaults, rollback capabilities, segmentation, and containment mechanisms designed to reduce the operational impact of compromised or malfunctioning agents. • Manage third-party and tool-integration risks by verifying external components, restricting tool usage to approved allow lists, monitoring inter-agent interactions, and applying supply chain risk management practices. • Integrate governance and accountability structures that define risk ownership, establish AI-specific policies, and align agentic AI oversight with existing cybersecurity and risk management frameworks. • Use system-level security analysis rather than evaluating components in isolation. The document highlights that risks in agentic AI environments often emerge from interactions between models, tools, humans, datasets, and infrastructure. The document presents agentic AI security as an ongoing operational discipline focused on resilience, containment, observability, and controlled autonomy across the full lifecycle of deployment and use. 

  • View profile for Shivani Virdi

    AI Engineering | Founder @ NeoSage | ex-Microsoft • AWS • Adobe | Teaching 70K+ How to Build Production-Grade GenAI Systems

    86,814 followers

    Please stop building multi-agent systems. Autonomy means nothing if the system can’t repeat its own success 𝟭. 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 "𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴" It isn’t about “can it solve the problem?” It’s “can it solve the problem under real constraints, and still make business sense?” ↳ Constraints: cost, latency, accuracy, compliance, security, privacy, ethics ↳ Value: measurable user impact (time saved, risk reduced, revenue unlocked) ↳ Unit economics: margins today or a credible path soon Add even one constraint, and the search space explodes. Add scale, and it gets harder again. 𝟮. 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗸𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗱𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 The creative variability we love trades off with reliability. ↳ Non-deterministic outputs ↳ Instruction drift across long tasks ↳ Sensitivity to prompt/context formatting Great for ideation and synthesis; fragile for strict, long-horizon execution. 𝟯. 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲-𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 To tame non-determinism, you have to add structure. A lot of it. ↳ Task decomposition and state: break work into verifiable steps, persist state ↳ Data layer: sourcing → cleaning → chunking → embeddings → indexing (RAG) ↳ Prompt lifecycle: versioning, testing, registries, rollout/rollback ↳ Model routing & caching: pick the smallest model that meets quality, reuse context ↳ Evals & observability: ground-truth tests, regression suites, traces, guardrails ↳ The triangle you must balance every day: accuracy ↔ cost ↔ latency Yes, the “mammoth thinking model” can brute-force quality, only if your users can wait and you can eat the bill. Most can’t. 𝟰. 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 For most production use cases: ↳ 𝗥𝗔𝗚 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 > 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗔𝗚 (Tight retrieval, reranking, and schema constraints beat free-roaming planners.) ↳ 𝗛𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰/𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 > 𝗟𝗟𝗠-𝗮𝘀-𝗮-𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲 (Use the model to propose, not police, unless you’ve calibrated it carefully.) ↳ 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 > 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 (Let the LLM read/plan/rewrite; let code and tools execute.) ↳ 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗠𝗟 𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀 > 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹 (Don’t use a bazooka to swat a fly; it's harder to aim) LLMs are powerful, but they’re one part of a disciplined software system. Engineer the system first. Insert the model where it actually improves reliability, speed, cost or efficiency. ♻️ Repost to share these insights.

  • View profile for Jannik Wiedenhaupt

    Helping 50+ U.S. Manufacturers and Distributors Automate Busywork in Sales with AI || CPO & Co-founder at SUPPLYCO || McKinsey || Siemens

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