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January 27, 2026

The Most Boring Agent We Ever Built (And Why It’s One of the Most Important)

The Most Boring Agent We Ever Built (And Why It’s One of the Most Important)
# Creative Workflows

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Mike Geurts
Mike Geurts
The Most Boring Agent We Ever Built (And Why It’s One of the Most Important)

The Problem No One Talks About

If you work with generated images long enough, you’ll recognise this moment:
You have a great lifestyle image. The composition is right. The mood is right. The product finally looks correct.
But the quality isn’t.
Edges are soft. Textures feel smeared. Skin looks a little… plastic. Compression artifacts start whispering “AI” to anyone who zooms in.
So you try to “enhance” it.
And suddenly the model gets creative.
Faces subtly change. Backgrounds mutate. Someone gains a new jawline they never asked for.
You didn’t want a reinterpretation. You wanted the same image, just better.
That’s the gap this agent fills.



A Different Kind of Intelligence

We created this agent with one very strict mindset:
Fix the pixels. Leave the idea alone.
Its job is not to be clever. Its job is to be disciplined.
Think of it less like an art director, and more like a very patient image conservator working in a museum basement.
White gloves. No opinions. No creative flourishes.



What This Agent Actually Does

In simple terms, the agent:
Restores clarity from low-quality or compressed images
Removes AI artifacts, noise, banding, and pixelation
Repairs warped regions caused by generation errors
Improves legibility of text and logos
Upscales to 4K while preserving structure
And that’s it.
It does not add objects. It does not change lighting mood. It does not beautify faces. It does not redesign anything.
If something looks slightly imperfect but real, it leaves it alone.
If something looks broken because of quality loss, it fixes it.
That distinction matters.



Why the Rules Are So Strict (On Purpose)

Most creative agents fail not because they’re weak, but because they’re too helpful.
So this one is intentionally restrictive:
No cropping
No reframing
No style changes
No colour grading
No “enhancements” that weren’t already implied
If the agent is ever unsure, it chooses preservation over perfection.



The Aspect Ratio Discipline

One of the quiet killers of image quality is aspect ratio guesswork.
So this agent never guesses.
Every workflow looks like this:
You upload an image
The agent asks one question
You choose from a fixed list of supported ratios
The agent restores and upscales to 4K
You get the image. Nothing else.
No previews. No explanations. No “almost right” outputs.
It either matches the ratio exactly, or it retries.
Again: boring. Also: incredibly effective.



Where This Fits in a Real Creative Workflow

This agent isn’t meant for ideation.
It’s meant for the moment after ideation succeeds.
When:
A lifestyle image is approved
A product placement finally works
A scene feels right
But the quality isn’t production-ready
This is the agent you run before delivery, not before thinking.
It’s the last mile.



Try the Agent

Image Enhancement Agent Agent ID: e674d865-e3d6-481d-b7ff-c3868412189e (Make sure to ask your Admin to turn on Agent Builder for this)
Use it when the idea is done — and the pixels need to catch up.
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