agent workflow fit scorer
Rate one process on six things that decide whether agents will work: how clear the rules are, how clean the inputs are, how often exceptions happen, what an error costs, whether systems have APIs, and whether past cases exist. You get a score, the workflow shape that fits, and the risks to fix first.
agent workflow with a human approval step
suggested architecture
- Intake: document extraction (OCR plus a small model) into a typed schema
- Router: a small, cheap model classifies cases and sends exceptions to a person
- Worker agents: one per decision type, each citing the rule it applied
- Approval: a person approves before anything is sent, paid or filed
- Evaluation: a golden set re-run on every prompt or model change
in its favour
- Written rules cover most decisions, so agents can follow and cite them.
- Plenty of past cases to build a golden test set from.
fix or plan for
- Messy inputs: budget for document extraction and test it on your worst scans.
Hours saved assume the pattern removes 65% of handling time. Test that in a pilot before you bank it.
questions
how is the score calculated?
A weighted average of the six ratings (rule clarity carries the most weight, and a high error cost counts against the fit), adjusted up or down by the monthly volume of work. The weights are in the open-source code.
what do the patterns mean?
Full automation runs straight through with sampled quality checks. Agent with review prepares everything and a person approves. Copilot drafts and a person decides. Not yet means fix the inputs or write the rules down first.
where do the hours saved come from?
Today's volume times handling time, multiplied by a typical share of that time each pattern removes: 85%, 65%, 35% and 10%. Treat it as a starting estimate to test in a pilot.
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