Topic
Automation in practice
Worked examples at the workflow level: the month-end close, accounts payable and the three-way match, collections, document data entry, onboarding, and writing back into legacy systems.
24 June 2026
What process redesign looks like inside an industrial staffing firm
A workflow-level walk through recruiting and onboarding at a staffing firm, where the delays in time-to-submit and time-to-fill come from, what an agent can run, and where a human stays in the loop.
18 June 2026
The long tail of document variability is the whole job
"Automate data entry" names only the easy part of the work. Rules and template OCR plateau around seventy percent straight-through processing, and the long tail of document variability is the whole job, where a language model plus a human earn their place.
14 June 2026
Writing back into a system that has no usable API
Most mid-market automation stalls at the integration surface, not the model. The engineering case for acting at the desktop a clerk already uses, walked through the accounts-payable queue and QuickBooks.
10 June 2026
Rebuilding the month-end close, from trial balance to statements
The monthly close is the cleanest worked example in operations because the benchmarks are public. We walk one redesigned close end to end, from where the days actually go to what a finance team does with them back.