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The most common error for Agentforce..... It does exactly, precisely, absolutely what you asked... to the letter. Word for word. Verbatim. Sounds like a joke. We're afraid it is not. (Well, to be fair, all those synonyms WERE kind of a joke... but back to the point.,.) In greenfield systems, clear instructions will get you the right results. (We often call those "demo environments.") But in actual real-life systems — systems that have to face the cold-harsh light of reality — agents don't have the context they need. So they guess. And that guessing is what gets you in trouble. Remember: AI agents don't need just instructions. They need up-to-the-minute context, too.

Joining the SLC Salesforce Admin Group's "How I AI" event this Thursday, virtually I'm presenting on something every admin is feeling right now: AI is only as good as the metadata underneath it, and most orgs are sitting on years of tech debt and 47 tools held together with hope. I'll show how Sweep can actually help you understand and govern your org metadata, so you can build on it safely. Plus a stacked panel of local Trailblazers (Ancestry, England Logistics, Protegrity, Salesforce, Cloudality) sharing how they really use AI day-to-day. Looking forward to this event with Evan Johnson and Ann Lane. Thursday, June 11, 3:00 PM MT Free, RSVP in comments Saleforce admins, come hang out https://lnkd.in/e3--Akzi #Salesforce #TrailblazerCommunity #SalesforceAdmin #AI #SaltLakeCity 

This week on a Special Edition Clean Sweep: Welcome to Complexity's redemption arc. 🪄

Systems operators are usually judged by what ships. Tickets closed. Features deployed. SLAs met. That's the job, right? Well, hold on a minute.... We analyzed 12K+ interactions with AI agents across 200+ Salesforce orgs.... And 80% of the effort was Discovery. We call the cost of that need — to dig up context — the Velocity Tax... and all that extra shoveling work is pricier than you might think. Get the full findings in The State of Enterprise Systems: Salesforce Edition. https://hubs.li/Q04kNjrY0

Complexity almost always starts as something useful. You've got a workflow that helped the team move with more speed. Or a field that supported a new process. Or an automation that solved a customer's issue. That’s all useful complexity. But as systems grow, the context of those choices gets harder and harder to see. The original purpose behind those decisions vanishes into thin air. Dependencies get buried. Custodians of all your system's nuances leave. Teams have to rediscover the same logic every time they want to make a change. And eventually, what once helped the business move fast becomes the thing holding it back. And before they know it, those businesses that can't adapt quickly enough get disrupted right out existence. The ability to adapt quickly is the best survival mechanism there is. Keep the complexity. Get rid of the blind spots.

You may have heard... our cross-platform agent for Salesforce, Snowflake, and Data 360 is here! The thing is... every enterprise system tells its own part of the story. Salesforce knows the customer record. Snowflake knows the data. Data 360 knows the audience... But Risk hides between and betwixt them. Sweep shines a light on those blind spots by creating one live map of how your systems actually connect. So teams and agents can discover, design, build, and monitor change with the full context in front of them. Your cross-system complexity won't know what hit it.

Salesforce's security enforcement is coming. If that whole project started with a "%$^@#!’ or a more mellow “Hmm" or some combination of the two — you're… not alone. The fast version is that permission set group inheritance changed. Profile-based implicit access doesn't carry the way it did. That also means you don't know what depends on what until something breaks. Which is… not awesome. If you're auditing this by hand, the rest of June is going to be rough. If you’re using Sweep... what do you wanna do for lunch? We’re thinking tacos?

THIS WEEK: Sweep's agentic layer has gone... cross-platform. 👀 Read the launch edition here. 🚀

Complexity gets a bad rap, but ultimately... it also means you *grew.* Every workflow, rule, integration, and exception started as a decision the business needed. Some of it stays load-bearing. Some of it has curdled into operational drag. Some of it hangs out in a weird interstitial purgatory. But complexity isn't the problem. The problem: complexity eventually hides its own context. Your business grows so much that no one person can remember how everything works. When teams can't see why something exists, where it's used, or what breaks if they touch it, every change becomes an archaeological dig. That's when speed becomes risk. We turn complexity into continuous context — something you, and your AI agents, can carry through the entire delivery lifecycle. We don't simplify all of your complexity away. (You'd never want that anyway.) We make the reality of where your systems stand right now legible, searchable, and full of the context you need to modernize as you go. The world isn't slowing down. The way you adapt to it can't either.

Are you runnin' a CPQ migration, or an archeological dig from the Paleozoic Era? We know. Sometimes, it's hard to tell. Context is stuck in admins' heads, consultant slide decks, Slack threads, email chains, and so forth... all of which feels like moving to Agentforce Revenue Management might require a backhoe, a shovel, and one of those little eye pieces where you can zoom in on microscopic fossils. Put all that away. Sweep already helped teams migrate to ARM in days. Now, we've made it event easier. Playbooks feature fixes all of that. The newest addition to the Sweep Agentic Layer, Playbooks is a structured workspace that helps you run projects totally end to end, step by step. Find what exists, design your ideal state, get a build-ready change list, and just do the dang thing. Let's help you improve that ground game (And yes that IS a Salesforce archaeology slash football double-pun.) (That's how you know we're excited.) Find out more below.