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This is what OP is explicitly not asking for—it's just a demo of a theoretical case, Temporal showing how a company that's hyped up on AI agents could use your platform to do agent-y things.

OP wants to know if anyone is actually using this stuff productively, not if anyone has tech demos. We've all seen more than enough tech demos.

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I fear I'll come off as a shill, but I've seen dozens of company uses of AI in workflows in the real world. Agents are just orchestrating multiple AI steps basically (granted not all of them are using AI to _pick_ the step to take which is often what "agentic" is seen as). Some are listed at https://temporal.io/in-use alongside the many non-AI things, e.g. https://temporal.io/resources/case-studies/bugcrowd, https://temporal.io/resources/on-demand/arc-xp-washington-po..., https://temporal.io/resources/on-demand/practical-tactical-a..., and more and more. All those companies use AI workflows in real world cases, and there are many more. I only showed the tutorial to agree with OP that it is just workflows with fuzzier steps and that's ok.

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