DEVQUEENS BLOG

Guides for teams that ship with AI.

Short, source-cited reads on AI automation, GEO marketing, and e-commerce agents. Written by the team that builds them.

Approval queue dashboard with automated three-way invoice matching
Guide

How AI automation returns 40 hours a week to finance ops

A short guide for finance leaders: what AI automation actually does, where it fails, and how to pilot it without blowing up the quarter.

E-commerce storefront with an AI agent handling product search and cart recovery
Case

AI agents on your e-commerce: What they do and when they ship revenue

What AI agents actually do inside an e-commerce surface, when they ship real revenue, and the three integrations that matter: product search, cart recovery, and support.

Comparison of a Google search result and a ChatGPT answer citing a business
Guide

GEO Marketing: How to get your business found by ChatGPT and Claude

A plain guide to Generative Engine Optimization: what GEO is, how it differs from SEO, and the five changes that get your business cited by AI answer engines.

Diagram comparing an AI chatbot and an AI agent transacting through an API
Guide

What is an AI agent (and what it isn't)

A short explainer on what counts as an AI agent in 2026, the four capabilities that define one, and the common misuses that cost teams money.

A product team reviewing a prompt evaluation dashboard with pass and fail rates
Guide

Prompt engineering for product teams, without the mystique

The five patterns we use across every production agent: role framing, structured output, evaluation harness, cost caps, and escalation. Nothing proprietary.

Illustration of a broken manual process about to be automated
Blog

When not to automate: three signs you should wait

A contrarian take: when AI automation makes the problem worse. Three signals your team should fix the process before buying the agent.

Chart of LLM token usage with a cost cap line
Guide

How to set cost caps on an AI agent before you ship

A short guide to protecting your runway from runaway LLM bills: max tokens per call, retry limits, per-user daily caps, and the kill switch.

Spreadsheet of LLM evaluation fixtures with pass rates
Guide

Evaluating LLM outputs: a practical harness for small teams

A small-team guide to building an evaluation harness: fixture sets, pass thresholds, model-release drift checks, and the review workflow.

Shopify dashboard with an AI agent overlay showing an abandoned cart recovery
Case

Shipping an AI agent on Shopify: a 4-week integration path

A concrete integration path for a Shopify storefront: catalog sync, order lookup, cart recovery, and the three places teams get stuck.

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