Automation
Business process automation software that leaves you owning the code
Business process automation usually means buying a platform, modelling your process inside it, and paying somebody to keep the model current. AgentCode replaces the modelling step with a conversation and gives you back plain code you can keep.
You describe the work · the agent writes the code · your team reviews before anything goes live
In short
Business process automation software takes an end to end process, one that crosses departments and systems, and runs it consistently instead of leaving it to habit and email. Think order to cash, procure to pay, or hire to retire. Traditional platforms model the process in a modelling language and execute the model. AgentCode reaches the same outcome by writing code: you describe each stage and who owns it, and the agent builds the applications that carry work from one stage to the next.
What the agent builds across a process
- A single record that follows the case from first request to close
- Handover screens for each department, showing only what that team needs
- Validation at the point of entry, so bad data stops at the door
- Automatic assembly of the documents each stage has to produce
- A view of every case in flight, grouped by the stage it sits in
- Exception queues for the cases that do not fit the standard path
A process from Operations
The problem
A customer order passes through sales, the warehouse and invoicing, and each team keeps its own list, so nobody can say where a given order actually is today.
What the agent builds
The agent builds one order record with a stage per team, a screen for each stage, and validation that stops an order moving on while a required field is missing.
What you end up with
A shared view of every order in flight, a list of the ones that are stuck and why, and the code for the whole process in your repository instead of in three spreadsheets.
What business process automation covers
Business process automation is the wider cousin of task automation. A task is one step, such as copying a value between two systems. A process runs across departments, takes days or weeks, and has owners, rules and documents at every stage. Automating it means agreeing what the stages are, then making the software carry the case between them.
- Process discovery: writing down what actually happens, including the exceptions everyone works around
- Stage ownership: who acts, who approves, and who is only informed
- One copy of the data: a single record, rather than a version per department
- Measurement: knowing how long each stage takes and where cases pile up
The hard part is rarely the technology. It is that the real process differs from the documented one, and the differences surface only when somebody tries to automate it. A description written by the team that runs the process every day is worth more here than a diagram drawn in a workshop.
One conversation per stage, not one programme per year
Platform led business process automation tends to arrive as a programme: a discovery phase, a model, a build, and a long tail of change requests. AgentCode makes each stage a separate, short piece of work. You describe the stage that hurts most, the agent writes the code and the screen for it, a person approves the change, and that stage runs. Then you do the next one.
- The first stage is live while the rest of the process is still on paper
- Each stage can be changed on its own, without reopening the whole model
- Every change goes through the same review, so nothing reaches production unread
- The order of work is yours, because no stage depends on a platform being finished
Because the output is ordinary code in your repository, the process does not depend on one product staying in your stack. Read how it works for the steps the agent takes on each request.
Where operations teams start
Operations sits between everyone else, which is why the cost of a broken handover lands there. These processes are the usual first candidates, and each one is a description away from a working app.
- Order to cash: one order record that sales, the warehouse and invoicing all read from
- Procure to pay: requests, approvals and matching against what actually arrived
- Supplier onboarding: documents collected once, checked against a list, kept in one place
- Returns: a single case with a stage for each team that has to act on it
- Stock adjustments: a form with validation, rather than a message to the warehouse
Most of these need somewhere to read and write ordinary business data, so spreadsheets and your ledger are common starting points. Narrower automations inside one team are covered on workflow automation, and the screens themselves on web apps.
Questions teams ask
How long does the first process take?
You do not automate a whole process at once. You pick the stage that causes the most rework, describe it, and review what the agent writes. That stage goes live while the rest of the process runs the way it always did, and the next stage follows the same path.
Do we have to document the process first?
A description in your own words is enough to start, and it does not have to be complete. The agent asks about the parts that are unclear. Gaps in an existing document tend to become obvious once one stage is running and a real case goes through it.
What about the exceptions our process is full of?
Exceptions are the point. You describe the standard path and the cases that break it, and the agent writes both, including a queue for anything that matches neither. An exception handled in code is at least visible to everyone, which is more than can be said for one handled in a private inbox.
Can we keep our current systems?
Yes, and most companies do. The agent writes code that reads from and writes to the systems you already run, so the ledger, the warehouse system and the mailbox stay where they are. What changes is that the process between them stops depending on somebody remembering it.
More the agent builds
Start with the stage that causes the most rework
Describe one handover, and see the app that removes it.