Solutions · Enterprise

Enterprise Workflow Automation

Work that crosses departments and systems, run as one traceable process.

A man in glasses draws a step-by-step workflow with delays and branches on an office whiteboard

Before you scope it

Not Every Process Should Be Automated

The three on the right are worth saying out loud, because an automation that escalates everything is worse than the manual process it replaced.

Good candidate

High volume, low variety

The same decision made hundreds of times a week against rules that could be written down, if anyone had time to write them down.

Good candidate

Spans several systems

Work that lives between an ERP, a portal and an inbox, with a person acting as the integration layer.

Good candidate

Rules exist but are informal

Everyone knows the tolerance and nobody has written it down. Making it explicit is most of the project.

Poor candidate

Genuinely novel judgement

Decisions where the right answer depends on context that is not in any document. Keep those with people.

Poor candidate

Low volume, high stakes

Something that happens twice a year and matters enormously is rarely worth automating, and rarely safe to.

Poor candidate

Rules nobody agrees on

If two people give different answers to the same case, that is a policy problem. Automating it just makes the disagreement faster.

Worked example

Three Systems, Four Agents, One Gate

A freight cost audit is a good shape for this: high volume, a contracted rate to check against, and a tolerance above which somebody should look.

Worked example — freight cost audit · Illustrative example

StepAgent or systemOutcome
Carrier invoice arrivesInvoice AgentRates extracted
Contracted rate looked upYour TMSRate per lane
Compared line by lineValidation AgentBase, fuel, accessorials
Inside tolerancePosting AgentApproved and posted
Outside toleranceException AgentVariance named, to ops
Result written backERP and TMSDispute logged
318 of 340 today Twenty-two went to ops review, each with the specific variance attached.

Three systems, four agents and one human gate above a value you set. None of that is a product feature — it is a workflow assembled from parts that already exist.

Assembled from parts

Existing agents configured, not a new product.

Bounded up front

The human gate is agreed before anything runs.

Crosses systems

The integration layer stops being a person.

Other shapes

The Same Pattern, Different Work

Freight cost audit Invoice + TMS
Read Look up rate Compare Approve Dispute
Claims intake Document + policy
Classify Extract Check cover Route Decide
Contract renewals Contract + calendar
Read terms Find dates Alert Escalate

FAQ

Questions Teams Ask

How is this different from hiring a development team?

Most of it is configuration of agents that already exist — reading documents, applying rules, routing, posting. What you are buying is the runtime, the guardrails and the audit trail that come with it, rather than a bespoke system somebody then has to maintain. Genuinely custom engineering is scoped separately and honestly.

How do we know our process is a good candidate?

High volume, low variety, rules that exist even if nobody has written them down, and a person currently acting as glue between systems. If the decision genuinely needs context that is not in any document, keep it with people — we would rather say so than sell you an automation that escalates everything.

What if our rules are not actually written down?

That is the normal starting point, and writing them down is a real part of the work. It is also usually the most valuable part, because the exercise surfaces cases where two people were quietly applying different tolerances.

Who maintains it once it is running?

You do, in the sense that changing a threshold, an approver or a tolerance is configuration rather than a support ticket. Where a system it integrates with changes, that is a maintenance conversation, and one we would rather have scheduled than discovered.

Next step

Bring the Process Nobody Owns

The one that crosses four systems and lives in somebody's head. We will tell you honestly whether it is a good candidate.