Professional services · Internal operations
A 15-minute status ritual became a 30-second review
Delivery managers were copying between inbox, tracker, and CRM. We scoped an internal agent that drafts, pulls account context, and queues anything unusual — with an audit log.
~30s review
Cycle time
was a 15-minute ritual
Approval
Guardrail
high-stakes actions never auto-run
Earned
Expansion
next workflow only after production trust
Before
- Status updates meant three tools and a lot of paste.
- Rules-based automation broke every time a field name changed.
- Leadership wanted speed without unsupervised actions on client data.
After
- Routine updates go through with a review, not a rebuild.
- Unusual requests still hit a person — with the account already loaded.
- Scope grows only after the first step has earned trust.
Constraints
- High-stakes actions require a human click.
- Scoped access only — no blanket credentials.
- Every run has to be reviewable later.
What we built
- Shadowed the workflow to pick tasks that were frequent, well-defined, and low-risk.
- Agent with bounded actions: draft, lookup, update tracker; anything else waits.
- Approval step + audit log before expanding scope.
“We were offered agents that would ‘just do it’. We bought one that knows when not to.”
What this replaced
- Manual tracker updates
- Fragile if-this-then-that zaps
- Status meetings as a system of record
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