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AI Agent Automation

Give AI Agents a Real Job Inside Your Business

Deploy agents that perform defined business work across your systems, with access controls, audit trails, exception handling and human oversight.

An agent without a defined job, scoped tools and an escalation path is a demo. The engineering is in everything around the model.

  • Fixed scope
  • Measurable ROI
  • Human-in-the-loop
  • Works with your existing stack

Trusted on complex technology delivery

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Does any of this look familiar?

These are the symptoms we see before the numbers get measured.

  • You have seen impressive agent demos and cannot map them onto real work
  • A pilot works until it meets a case nobody anticipated
  • Nobody can say what the agent is permitted to do, or what happens when it is wrong
  • There is no record of why the agent did what it did
  • The agent produces output that a person still has to carry somewhere

What this process costs you today

Before anyone talks about technology, it is worth knowing the number you are trying to beat.

A worked example

Modelled estimate

3 employees × 8 hours/week of repetitive processing = 1,248 hours/year.

At $55/hour loaded cost

$68,640

annual process cost

If automation removes

60%

of the manual effort

Recoverable capacity

$41,184

per year

Knowledge work where judgement matters but most of the handling is routine.

Now run it on your own volumes

Your current process

Assumptions

  • Fully loaded hourly cost of the staff handling these cases today
  • Rework estimated at 1.5x the original handling time per failed case
  • Automatable share of 50–70%, reflecting judgement steps that stay with people
  • Payback modelled against a typical single-process implementation investment

Your estimated opportunity

Modelled estimate
Current estimated annual cost
$184,6462.0 FTE of manual effort
Potential automatable effort
5070%
Indicative payback
2 months
Potential annual opportunity
$92,323$129,252
Validate these numbers in a 5-Day Sprint

Directional planning estimate based on your inputs — not a quote or a substitute for finance sign-off.

How we work

  1. 1

    Map

    Sit with the people doing the work and document the process as it actually runs — including the workarounds nobody wrote down.

  2. 2

    Measure

    Establish a baseline: volume, handling time, error and rework rate, and what the process costs you today.

  3. 3

    Build

    Redesign the workflow and build it against your real systems and data — not a mockup or a slide.

  4. 4

    Validate

    Test against edge cases, confirm exception handling and approval gates, and measure the result against the baseline.

  5. 5

    Deploy

    Move into production with monitoring, runbooks and training — or recommend against it if the numbers do not hold up.

Before and after

What an agent actually needs before it can work

Today

  1. A prompt and an API key
  2. Access to whatever the developer's account could reach
  3. No definition of done
  4. No path for cases it cannot handle
  5. No record of its reasoning

Automated

  1. A defined job with explicit success criteria
  2. Scoped tools and least-privilege credentials
  3. Business rules that constrain what it may decide alone
  4. An escalation path to a named human
  5. A full audit trail of inputs, actions and approvals

What we automate

  • Document review agent
  • Customer operations agent
  • Finance exception agent
  • Procurement agent
  • Research and enrichment agent
  • Case management agent

What you receive

  • A defined agent job description — what it does and does not do
  • Tool and data access design under least privilege
  • Business rules and decision boundaries
  • Escalation and human approval points
  • Evaluation against your real cases
  • Audit logging of every action and decision
  • Monitoring and a rollback path

What the numbers say

Every figure is labelled by where it comes from — measured customer results, industry benchmarks, modelled estimates, or commitments we make to you.

50–70%

Of case handling typically automatable

Industry benchmark

Human

Sign-off retained on every judgement call

Delivery commitment

Audit

Trail on every agent action

Delivery commitment

Least

Privilege access, revocable at any time

Delivery commitment

Technology we build on

We are not tied to one platform. The right tool depends on the workflow, your existing stack, and what you can maintain.

Large language modelsRetrieval over your own documentsCIP governanceMicrosoft 365SalesforceServiceNowREST & GraphQL APIsn8n

How we keep it safe

Human approval gates

You decide which decisions an automation may make alone and which require a person. Thresholds are configured to your policy.

Exception handling

Anything ambiguous, incomplete or out of policy routes to a named owner with the reason attached — it does not fail silently.

Audit trail

Every action is logged: what ran, on what input, what it decided, and who approved it. Built for audit and incident review.

Least-privilege access

Automations connect through credentialed, scoped integrations you grant and can revoke. Your systems stay the system of record.

AI Agent Automation FAQs

Identify an agent-ready workflow

Not every process needs an agent. We will tell you which of yours does, and which is better served by plain rules.