Daily recap for May 16, 2026

Nine small-business AI tutorials dropped today, each with step-by-step instructions, downloadable code, and a clear path to deploy. They cover voice appointment booking, market research pipelines, HR policy Q&A, and more.

New tutorials

xAI Grok Knowledge Agent for SMB HR Policy Q&A

Employees can now self-serve PTO, benefits, and handbook questions with a Grok-powered HR policy agent that remembers role-specific context across sessions. It uses REAA’s memory stack to persist employee history and fetches policy paragraphs via hybrid search.

Read the tutorial → Download the code (zip)

Anthropic RAG Knowledge Base for Construction Project Specs

Field crews can instantly query building specifications, codes, and submittals using a hybrid RAG pipeline. Built with Qdrant, BM25, Cohere reranking, and Claude Haiku, it retrieves precise answers from PDFs stored in S3.

Read the tutorial → Download the code (zip)

Perplexity Market Research Document Pipeline for SMBs

Turn scattered market reports into a searchable research assistant. Upload PDFs, DOCX, and XLSX files, and the pipeline indexes them into Qdrant for semantic search, then answers questions with Perplexity—all under per-user spending limits.

Read the tutorial → Download the code (zip)

OpenAI Multi-Agent Handoff for E‑commerce Order Tracking

Automate order tracking, shipping updates, and returns without losing conversation context. Specialized agents for each task hand off seamlessly using REAA’s handoff stack, keeping customers from repeating themselves.

Read the tutorial → Download the code (zip)

Cohere Code Sandbox for SMB Data Workflows

Give analysts a secure, budget-controlled environment to run Python and SQL against business data. Cohere models classify code safety, E2B executes it in a sandbox, and REAA’s budget engine caps costs automatically.

Read the tutorial → Download the code (zip)

Google Gemini MCP Server for SMB Business Intelligence

Query HubSpot, Stripe, and Google Calendar with natural language through a multi-tenant MCP server. Powered by Gemini, it exposes eight tools with built-in tenant isolation and budget enforcement.

Read the tutorial → Download the code (zip)

Cohere Lead Intake Agent for HubSpot SMB Sales

Process business cards, PDFs, and emails to capture leads and auto-populate HubSpot CRM. Cohere extracts and classifies data, while a confidence router flags low-quality entries for human review.

Read the tutorial → Download the code (zip)

Azure AI Phone Agent for Cal.com Appointment Scheduling

Answer calls and book appointments automatically with an AI voice agent. It understands caller intent, checks Cal.com availability, creates bookings, and confirms via TTS—all with per-call cost tracking.

Read the tutorial → Download the code (zip)

Perplexity Knowledge Agent for Notion SMB FAQ

Let employees and customers search your Notion workspace with a conversational AI. It retrieves relevant page chunks via hybrid search, then generates cited answers using Perplexity’s online model, staying within budget.

Read the tutorial → Download the code (zip)

Building blocks shipped

mcp-load-test

A complete load-testing suite for MCP servers. The @reaatech/mcp-load-test-cli runs ramp, soak, and spike tests, while @reaatech/mcp-load-test-engine orchestrates session pools and breaking-point detection, and @reaatech/mcp-load-test-analysis grades performance. All nine packages work together to stress-test and report on MCP server health.

Browse the mcp-load-test packages →

mcp-schema-evolution

Detect breaking schema changes in MCP tools across branches. @reaatech/mcp-schema-evolution-cli compares snapshots and outputs reports, and @reaatech/mcp-schema-evolution-ci runs the same checks inside CI pipelines.

Browse the mcp-schema-evolution packages →

mcp-server-doctor

A diagnostic toolkit that runs eight health checks against any MCP server and assigns an A–F grade. The @reaatech/mcp-server-doctor-engine drives the checks, @reaatech/mcp-server-doctor-cli provides a command-line interface, and @reaatech/mcp-server-doctor-reporters formats results for console or CI.

Browse the mcp-server-doctor packages →

mcp-server-starter-ts

Building blocks for TypeScript MCP servers. @reaatech/mcp-server-core provides shared types and schemas, @reaatech/mcp-server-tools manages a registry with auto-discovery, and @reaatech/mcp-server-engine wires up an Express server with auth, rate limiting, and observability.

Browse the mcp-server-starter-ts packages →

Browse the full catalog at reaatech.com/products.