Articles, guides and resources on AI workflow orchestration, written by the voolama team from first-hand work building Dave.
The HelloDave.ai blog covers how to build AI workflows that keep humans in control: governed AI, human-in-the-loop review design, model-agnostic AI, and going from a blank canvas to a live workflow in under 20 minutes. Written by the voolama team from first-hand work building the platform.
A step-by-step guide for Admins enabling and enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA) across a tenant in Dave by voolama (hellodave.ai). Covers the eight MFA provider types,…
Read →A troubleshooting guide for Admins diagnosing workflow instance failures caused by AI provider problems in Dave by voolama (hellodave.ai). Covers the four documented provider…
Read →A troubleshooting guide for Admins diagnosing broken AI provider configurations in Dave by voolama (hellodave.ai). Covers the six documented failure modes: invalid API key, failed…
Read →A step-by-step guide for Use-role and Admin users completing human_review, agent_review, and safety_check tasks in Dave by voolama (hellodave.ai). Covers reading the payload,…
Read →A practical guide for Use-role reviewers and Admins who need to work through a backlog of pending tasks in Dave by voolama (hellodave.ai). Covers how to find and prioritise…
Read →A practical guide for Admin and Curate roles building conditional branching into workflows in Dave by voolama (hellodave.ai). Covers the Routing node, edge connections, routing…
Read →In Dave by voolama (hellodave.ai), AI providers are centralized configuration records managed at Admin, then API Management, then Providers. Each record stores the service type,…
Read →Getting your team started on Dave by voolama (hellodave.ai) takes four steps: configure at least one AI provider, invite teammates via the Team Invitations screen, assign each…
Read →The DAVE Dashboard gives you a four-card snapshot of everything running in your tenant the moment you log in. This guide shows you how to read each card, act on what you find, and…
Read →DAVE's Dashboard and Reports pages give you a live read on every workflow running in your tenant. This guide walks you through each metric, explains what it means in practice, and…
Read →Retiring an agent version in DAVE marks it unavailable for new workflow assignments while leaving every running instance untouched. This guide covers when to retire, how to do it,…
Read →The Safety node runs content safety and compliance checks at a defined point in your workflow and propagates those guardrails to every downstream agent call. This guide shows how…
Read →DAVE ships with six default roles: Admin, Create, Curate, Use, Reporting, and Financial. This guide explains what each role grants, how to assign and remove roles on any user…
Read →Spreadsheets are the default tool for structured processes that outgrow email but have not yet justified custom software. This guide shows you how to map a spreadsheet-based…
Read →A step-by-step guide to adding Anthropic as an AI provider in DAVE, so your workflows can call Claude models with your own API key and zero platform markup.
Read →A step-by-step guide to adding Azure OpenAI as an AI provider in DAVE, so your workflows can call your Azure-deployed models with your own credentials and zero platform markup.
Read →A step-by-step guide to adding OpenAI as an AI provider in DAVE, so your workflows can call GPT models with your own API key and zero platform markup.
Read →The Routing node evaluates a field in the workflow payload and sends execution down a different path depending on what it finds. This guide walks through placing a Routing node,…
Read →A step-by-step guide to diagnosing and resolving a workflow instance that has stopped progressing: how to read the status, find the blocking task, inspect the context, and decide…
Read →DAVE exposes 305 REST API endpoints and includes an API Call node in its workflow engine. This guide explains how to integrate DAVE with your existing systems in both directions:…
Read →DAVE supports eight MFA provider types, from TOTP authenticator apps to hardware security keys and SMS codes. This guide walks through enabling MFA, choosing a provider, setting…
Read →DAVE supports Ollama as a first-class provider type, letting you point any agent at a locally hosted model without touching workflow logic or agent credentials. This guide walks…
Read →An AI agent in DAVE is a named, versioned, reusable component that wraps an AI provider with a system prompt and behavior parameters. This guide walks through creating one from…
Read →A prompt library gives your team a single, governed source of truth for every AI instruction your workflows depend on. This guide covers creating, categorizing, and assigning…
Read →The API Call node lets you send an HTTP request to any external REST API during workflow execution, capture the response, and map values back into your workflow fields. This guide…
Read →Prompt locking pins a library prompt to an agent so that workflow designers cannot change it. This guide walks through the full process: creating the prompt in the Prompt Library,…
Read →A step-by-step guide to adding Google AI as an AI provider in DAVE, so your workflows can call Gemini models with your own API key and zero platform markup.
Read →DAVE supports single sign-on through five SSO/OIDC providers: Google, Microsoft, GitHub, Okta, and custom OIDC. This guide explains what SSO does, how it differs from MFA, and…
Read →When a workflow runs multiple Agent Interaction nodes in sequence, each agent receives the instance context accumulated so far. This guide explains how that context is built, how…
Read →Changing an agent's system prompt without a version record is how silent regressions happen. This guide covers the full safe-versioning workflow: creating a new version, testing…
Read →A review loop runs a review node, routes failures back to an earlier generation step, and only advances when the review passes. This guide shows how to wire that pattern using…
Read →When a workflow task is assigned to a role rather than a named individual, any user holding that role can claim and complete it. This guide explains when to use role-based…
Read →Tenant-wide AI guidelines in DAVE are set through three controls in Admin Settings: the AI Assistant configuration, the compliance audit log standards, and the access settings…
Read →SOC 2 and GDPR compliance modes in DAVE are enabled with two checkboxes in Admin Settings. This guide covers exactly where to find them, what each one activates, what to do about…
Read →DAVE's MCP integration exposes 34 tools across four capability presets. The preset you select when generating an MCP key determines exactly what your AI assistant can do in your…
Read →A step-by-step guide to filtering, scoping, and exporting DAVE's audit log as a CSV file ready for external auditors, compliance teams, or incident investigators.
Read →Claude Code connects to your DAVE workspace over a hosted HTTPS MCP server using a per-user key. Nothing is installed locally. This guide walks through generating your MCP key,…
Read →An approval gate pauses a DAVE workflow and routes it through a named human reviewer before execution continues. This guide walks through placing a Human Review node, wiring its…
Read →Learn Dave, at /learn-dave, is the walkthrough surface. It carries a nine-step run through your first workflow, from adding an AI provider to confirming a completed run, and every one of those steps links to a task-level quick reference guide. Ten of those guides exist, covering adding a provider, creating an agent, creating and activating a workflow, launching an instance, building a workflow in the editor, working a task from your inbox, reading a run's timeline, scheduling a recurring run, setting up a custom field, and connecting an AI assistant over MCP. The blog is where the thinking goes; Learn Dave is where the clicks go.
The voolama team, including founders Dean Brown and Adam Valine, writes from first-hand experience building the Dave platform.
Governed AI, human-in-the-loop design, model-agnostic AI, workflow building, and practical how-to guidance for AI workflow orchestration.
Yes. The posts explain how the platform actually works, node types, security, and deployment, so you can judge fit before starting a free trial.
Three kinds, in one feed: articles, guides and resources. Every card is tagged with its type, the feed can be filtered to one type at a time, and each post has its own page at /article, /guide or /resource.
In the product's own help centre rather than on this blog. Every Dave release ships plain-language release notes inside the app, alongside a guide for each area of the product.
On Learn Dave at /learn-dave: a nine-step walkthrough of your first workflow end to end, with every step linked to one of ten short task-level guides for the jobs people do most often.
