How We Use n8n to Build and Control AI Agents – Keeping Business in Focus

Everyone’s talking about AI agents, including us. But making agents actually useful in a business context – not just a clever demo – requires more than a chat prompt. You need orchestration: a way to give agents access to real tools, enforce structure on their outputs, and debug them when things go sideways.

At Beezwax, we’ve been building AI agents on top of n8n, an open-source workflow automation platform. n8n acts as the control plane: it handles triggers, authentication, tool routing, and LLM orchestration so we can focus on the business logic.

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bBox 1.06 for FileMaker enhances support for macOS text windows and Python

We are pleased to announce the release of bBox version 1.06 for Claris® FileMaker®, which adds support for macOS text windows and many update enhancements, including to bBox’s support for integrating Python code with your FileMaker apps.

bBox is a free utility plug-in to extend FileMaker solutions to easily use code libraries. Supporting both macOS & Ubuntu Linux, it has functions to help you work with Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, AppleScript, Bash/Zsh/sh, XPath, and DuckDB. Also included is a demo file that has over 220 examples of how you can put bBox functions to work for you.

If you’re interested in Python integration with FileMaker, also check out bzPython-FM, which uses bBox.

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Retool, FileMaker, Airtable? Picking the Right Stack for Internal Tools

When building internal tools, you’re faced with a tough question that many fast-moving teams don’t ask soon enough:

What’s the right platform stack for what we’re trying to build?

From prebuilt dashboards to low-code platforms to fully custom apps, there are more options for internal tooling than ever—each with its own trade-offs.

  • Retool®
  • Claris FileMaker®
  • Airtable®
  • Custom-built Web Apps
  • …and plenty more depending on the department and the problem.

So how do you choose?

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Monthly Maintenance – Care and Feeding of Linux Servers

Maintaining the health and security of your Linux servers is more crucial than ever. With any server, you should be using real-time monitoring solutions, and performing backups every day (or more often, depending on data use). And, while you can rely on the OS to automatically install updates–especially on Windows and Mac–with Linux you benefit from a more “managed” approach to regular maintenance.

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AI Agents: Transforming Enterprise IT Through Intelligent Automation

The landscape of enterprise IT stands at a pivotal moment of transformation.

As organizations navigate increasingly complex digital environments, a revolutionary approach to automation and system intelligence is emerging: AI agents. These autonomous systems represent more than just an incremental improvement over traditional automation tools—they herald a fundamental shift in how we think about and implement intelligent systems.

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Python with FileMaker®: Get Started with Analytics, Automation and AI + ML

Christos Savva from Beezwax presents at Bay Area FileMaker Developer Meetup.

Join us for an informative and interactive meetup that explores the benefits of integrating Python with FileMaker. Learn how Python can enhance your Claris FileMaker solutions by enabling data and visual analytics, IT automation, and AI + Machine Learning integration.

We’ll cover “Getting Started” with Python (using FileMaker 2024 on macOS for the demo) and briefly review various integration methods, such as web viewers, plugins and serverless options. We’ll demo an example FileMaker solution, bzPython-FM.

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Dreamforce 2024 Recap

Dreamforce was often a bit of a disruption for me as a San Franciscan—traffic, closed roads, did I mention traffic? This year, instead of sitting in my car waiting to inch forward, I shared a Waymo to get around The City, and experienced Dreamforce firsthand. As a marketer and technologist, I was eager to see how Salesforce presented itself. As a company, Beezwax paid close attention to this conference, especially innovation happening with Tableau and Slack.

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Reconnect.Brisbane – AI with FileMaker 2024 and The Collaborative Journey

Katherine Russell and Vince Menanno from Beezwax present at Reconnect in Brisbane, Australia.

Beezwax is proud to sponsor and present at Reconnect.Brisbane, one of the biggest Claris FileMaker Developer conferences in the Asia-Pacific region this year. We’re excited to gather with our peers in the Claris community, and for the chance to engage in presentations and discussions on the latest development trends, especially AI with FileMaker.

At Reconnect 2024, Katherine Russell and Vince Menanno from Beezwax will kick off developer presentations with two sessions:

  • AI with FileMaker 2024: Get More Out of Your Data and Apps
  • The Collaborative Journey: Evolving Through Code, Teams, and Technology
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Make the impossible easy with AI and FileMaker 2024 – Claris Community Live

Special event featuring Vincenzo Menanno from Beezwax, with Claris product team and Partners

Sharing development examples of using AI with FileMaker, Vincenzo Menanno from Beezwax will join the Claris product team and Partners in a Claris Community Live discussion about building modern solutions, making the impossible easy.

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Semantic Search with FileMaker 2024 – Claris Community Live

Special event featuring Will Miro from Beezwax, with Claris product team and Partners

Sharing research and demo examples of using AI with FileMaker, Will Miro from Beezwax will join the Claris product team and Partners in a Claris Community Live discussion about the new semantic search features in Claris FileMaker 2024.

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FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 3: Advanced Fun

Semantic search is a bit like LiDAR: it penetrates the data’s lexical canopy to reveal underlying meaning. In “Part 1: Fundamental Power” and “Part 2: Key Details” we covered the basics of FileMaker semantic search. Now let’s consider some more exotic ways this new feature can put a spotlight on our data.

We’ll show an example of “unified search” across multiple tables, using natural language to construct a semantic search. Then we’ll extend this to a second example, showing “unified search + actions”. A downloadable demo/tutorial file is provided for each of these two examples.

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FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 1: Fundamental Power

FileMaker 2024 delivers native semantic search, and it’s awesome. Now you can search records whose text is similar to the semantic meaning of your search term, even if those records don’t include your exact search term. Using natural language, users can be freed from trying to recall exactly how data was input. Let’s dive in to see just how powerful FileMaker’s semantic search is.

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AI with FM – Amazing Intelligence with FileMaker 2024

Vince reacts with details, and his share of amazement, to the experience of pair programming with ChatGPT as co-pilot, searching for deeper meaning in FileMaker scripts using semantic search (using InspectorPro 8), and the overall experience using AI with FileMaker 2024.

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