How It Works
From one repetitive workflow to a working agent
The goal of the first project is not the most impressive agent. It is the one that proves the model in your company, on work you can measure.
One run, with a gate
Request received
waitingin progressdoneA form entry starts the run.
Agent executes
waitingin progressdoneReads the context, carries out the steps.
Human approves
HumanThe sensitive step waits for sign-off.
Delivered
waitingin progressdoneThe outcome is written to the record.
How we work
From one workflow to an agent in production
No twelve-month transformation programme. One process, working, that you can measure.
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Map the work
We sit with the people who do it and write down what actually happens — including the exceptions nobody documented.
- 02
Find the decisions
Which steps follow a rule, which need judgement, and which must never happen without a person.
- 03
Connect the tools
The agent works inside your CRM, helpdesk, inbox and sheets. Nothing gets replaced.
- 04
Set the boundaries
Permissions, approval points, escalation paths, and what happens when something breaks.
- 05
Run it for real
Live on a real workflow, watched closely, with a person able to step in at any point.
- 06
Measure, then widen
How much work it removed and how reliably. Then the next workflow — or more autonomy on this one.
Autonomy
You decide how much rope it gets
Autonomy is a dial, not a switch. Almost every workflow starts at the left and moves right once it has earned it.
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Prepares
The agent does the work and leaves it ready. A person reviews and sends. Nothing reaches a customer without human eyes.
- 02
Acts on approval
The agent proposes the action and executes it once a person confirms. One click instead of fifteen minutes.
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Acts within limits
Defined low-risk actions happen on their own. Anything above the threshold still comes back for approval.
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Runs the workflow
The agent carries the whole process, escalating only exceptions. Reached after the workflow has proven itself, not before.
Most workflows sit comfortably at level 2 or 3 for a long time. That is not a limitation — it is where the economics are best and the risk is lowest.
Guardrails
What keeps it safe
Least privilege
The agent gets access to exactly the systems and actions its workflow needs, and nothing beyond them.
Explicit action list
Permitted actions are enumerated, not inferred. An action that was never granted cannot be taken.
Approval gates
Sensitive, costly or irreversible steps stop and wait for a named person.
Escalation by default
When the situation is outside the rules, the defined behaviour is to hand over — never to improvise.
Full audit trail
Every run records its trigger, its inputs, its actions and its outcome, so any case can be reconstructed.
Defined failure behaviour
Tool outages, malformed inputs and timeouts have planned responses, decided during design rather than during an incident.
Questions
The things buyers actually ask
How is this different from a chatbot?
A chatbot waits for a message and produces text. An agent starts from an event, reads context out of your systems, performs a sequence of actions in real tools, and either finishes the job or hands it to a person. The visible difference is that after an agent runs, something in your business has changed.
Do we have to replace our current software?
No, and we would advise against it. Agents are built to work inside the tools you already run. Replacing your CRM in order to automate follow-up is a much larger, much riskier project than the one you were trying to do.
What happens when the agent is not sure?
It stops and escalates with everything it gathered. Agents are explicitly built to prefer handing over to guessing, because in a business process a wrong confident action is far more expensive than a delay.
Can we approve things before they happen?
Yes, and for many workflows that is the right starting configuration. The agent prepares, a person approves, and the approval step is removed later only for the action types that have proven reliable.
Which process should we automate first?
Usually the one that is high volume, rule-based and boring — not the most impressive one. The best first agent is a workflow your team runs many times a week, where the cost of doing it manually is easy to calculate.
What does this cost?
The assessment is a short fixed engagement, and it ends with a written recommendation you can take elsewhere if you want to. Building the first agent is priced per workflow once we know how many systems it touches and how clean the access is — which is exactly what the assessment establishes. We do not quote before that, because a number produced without seeing the process is either padded or wrong.
How long before something is actually running?
It depends on how many systems are involved and how clean the access is. A single-workflow agent on tools with decent APIs is a matter of weeks, not quarters. We will give you a real estimate after the assessment, not before it.
Does this replace our employees?
It replaces tasks, not people — and specifically the tasks nobody was hired to enjoy. What we consistently see is teams handling more volume with the same headcount and spending their time on the parts of the job that need a person. If your goal is a headcount cut, we are the wrong partner: those projects fail because the people who understand the process stop wanting it to work.
How do we know whether it was worth it?
Because we agree the measure before we build: how many times the workflow runs, how long it used to take, how often it now completes without a person. If the number does not move, that is a finding, not something to explain away.
Can one agent work across several tools?
Yes. That is usually the entire point — the expensive workflows are the ones that cross systems, which is exactly where people are currently acting as the integration layer.
Is our data used to train anything?
No. Your data is used to do your work. We configure model access so business content is not retained for training, and we tell you exactly which providers are involved in any workflow before it goes live.
The hardest part is choosing the first one.
That is what the assessment is for. One conversation, a ranked list of what could be delegated, and a recommendation you can act on or ignore.