How AI agents are being deployed in real business workflows: Upwork, DoorDash, Meta, EY, and Fundrise examples
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Summary
The article examines real-world AI agent applications beyond coding, highlighting examples from Upwork, DoorDash, Meta, EY, and Fundrise as presented at the AI Agent Conference. These agents operate in ordinary business workflows—handling goals, using tools, maintaining context, and executing multi-step processes—rather than delivering magical results. The key insight is that AI agents are increasingly being deployed in practical, speed-and-judgment-driven business scenarios.
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By agent, I mean a system that can take a goal, use tools, keep context, and work through several steps rather than simply answer a prompt.
What stands out is not that these systems are magical. It is that they are showing up in ordinary business workflows where speed, judgment, and
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