AI Agents
What AI Agents Can Actually Do Today
2026-05-08 · 9 min · Forward Company
Agents excel at: structured extraction, draft generation, routing decisions with clear rules, and summarization.
Agents struggle with: ambiguous judgment calls, novel situations without context, and tasks requiring deep domain expertise without human review.
Design principle: Human-in-the-loop for anything that affects revenue, relationships, or compliance. Full automation for internal ops with clear rollback.
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