Capability 01

AI that survives contact with your operations

Most AI pilots work in a demo and fail in production. We build the workflow around the model: the approvals, the audit trail, the fallback when it gets something wrong. Then it ships.

How it runs

How one workflow moves from email to governed AI in production

  • Person decides
  • AI + human review
  • Automated
In
  • Documents moved by email
  • Approvals in inboxes
  • Checklists in spreadsheets
Out
  • Workflow in production
  • Readable audit trail
  • Threshold policy
  • Cycle time dashboard
01

Pick one workflow

Partner onboarding, vendor verification or expense approval: one workflow that costs real money and a team that feels it every week. Not a platform strategy.

Person decides

A person makes this call. The system gives them the context.

02

Time the current cycle

We trace each step and time it. The delay usually concentrates in verification and approval routing rather than in the work itself, and that finding sets the build order.

Person decides

A person makes this call. The system gives them the context.

03

Rebuild with AI and review

A document agent extracts and cross-checks fields and scores its confidence. Anything below threshold goes to a named reviewer. Nothing passes without a high score or a human signature.

AI + human review

AI does the work, a named person reviews or signs off before it counts.

04

Route and log decisions

Onboarding, verification and approvals run as governed sequences. Each step knows its inputs, its owner and what to do when a check fails, and every decision is logged.

Automated

Rule-based and automatic, logged in the audit trail.

05

Instrument the result

A dashboard shows week by week whether the cycle got shorter and where exceptions cluster. Thresholds change only with evidence and a logged approval from the process owner.

Person decides

A person makes this call. The system gives them the context.

06

Extend the pattern

Once one workflow is in production and the numbers are visible, the next one is faster because the review queue, the audit trail and the governance layer already exist.

Person decides

A person makes this call. The system gives them the context.

What you get

7 deliverables, all yours to keep

  • One workflow running in production
  • Document and KYC agent with confidence scoring
  • Exception queue with a named reviewer
  • Audit trail your compliance team can read
  • Threshold policy for machine versus human decisions
  • Dashboard of cycle time and exception rate
  • AI readiness assessment findings you keep

Sound familiar?

Why AI and digital transformation stalls before production

Your teams still move documents by email, verification takes days because a person opens every file, and the AI pilot stopped when compliance asked what happens when the model is wrong. That is the right question, and it is where we start. A model with a confidence threshold, an exception queue and a named reviewer is a production system.

We pick one workflow, time it, and rebuild it with AI where it holds and human review where it does not. A first workflow typically reaches production in 4–6 weeks. For a large-scale energy enterprise, that meant starting with verification and approval routing. The same governance layer runs through Partner & Vendor Operations.

  • Verification takes days because a person opens every file

    Each document is checked against a list by hand and forwarded to the next person, so cycle time depends on who is in the office.

  • Nobody can say where a partner's application is

    Approvals sit in inboxes with no status or owner, so the answer comes from asking around.

  • The AI pilot stopped at the compliance review

    The demo was impressive. Then compliance asked what happens when the model is wrong, and there was no answer.

  • A chatbot nobody can audit

    What you have seen so far produces answers without a record of how they were reached, so no one will put it near a regulated process.

  • Internal approvals run on email and spreadsheets

    Travel and expense approval, HR onboarding and procurement sign-off are checked by people who would rather be doing something else.

Services

What you can hire us for.

All services

The work

Inside AI & Digital Transformation.

What our AI and digital transformation work covers

  • Intelligent document and KYC processing

    A document agent extracts and cross-checks the fields you care about, scores its own confidence, and routes anything below threshold to a person.

  • Agentic automation for multi-step workflows

    Onboarding, verification, approvals and exception handling run as governed sequences, each step with inputs, an owner and a defined path when a check fails.

  • Process digitization

    Partner, vendor, employee and customer journeys taken off email and spreadsheets, with a record, a status and an owner at every stage.

  • AI readiness assessment

    Where your data, systems and governance actually stand before anything is committed, including the honest finding that a given workflow is not ready.

  • Governance design

    Role-based access, decision logging, explainability and human sign-off on anything consequential, designed into the system rather than added after the audit.

How we work on AI in regulated operations

  1. 01

    One workflow that costs real money, not a platform strategy

    We start with something whose cycle time you can put a number on, so everyone can see whether it got shorter.

  2. 02

    Time the cycle before building anything

    Where the days go decides the build order. For a large-scale energy enterprise, the delay sat in verification and approval routing, not in the work.

  3. 03

    Automation where it holds, review where it does not

    The model handles the repetitive, high-volume, well-defined part. People handle exceptions, judgment calls and sign-off.

  4. 04

    Working software every week

    One-week sprints with a demo every week: a verification step on real documents, an approval route on your hierarchy, an exception queue with real cases. Scope can move; dates do not.

  5. 05

    Telling you when it will not pay back

    The readiness assessment and cycle-time instrumentation are yours either way. When they show a planned automation would not pay back, we say so.

Where AI automation goes wrong, and how we avoid it

  • The documents the model gets wrong flow through unchecked

    A confidence threshold, an exception queue and a named reviewer. Nothing passes without either a high score or a human signature.

  • Governance is bolted on after the first audit

    Role-based access, decision logging and sign-off on consequential steps are designed in from the first sprint.

  • Nobody can tell whether the automation helped

    The workflow is instrumented from day one, with cycle time and exception rate visible week by week.

  • Each new workflow starts from nothing

    The review queue, audit trail and governance layer are built once and reused, so the second workflow goes faster.

Team and timeline

4–6 weeks

to a first AI use case live, human-reviewed

Indicative. Actual duration depends on requirements and complexity, and can change.

Who works on it

  • Solution architect
  • AI engineer
  • Full stack engineers
  • QA engineer
  • Delivery lead

Engagement model

Agile Time & Material for evolving scope. Fixed Cost where the workflow is well understood.

Good to know

A readiness assessment, where you want one first, typically takes 1–2 weeks. The build plan assumes access to systems and sample documents in week one, and reviewer time from your team early on.

Proof

Engagements behind the numbers.

Quick enquiry

Is this close to your problem?

Someone who would work on it replies within one working day. No sales sequence.

FAQ

AI & Digital Transformation: common questions.

Where should we start with AI and digital transformation?

With one workflow that costs you real money and has a cycle time you can measure, such as partner onboarding, vendor verification or expense approval. We time the current cycle, find where the days go, and rebuild that workflow first. A platform strategy can follow once one workflow is in production and the numbers are visible to everyone.

What do you need from our team during the build?

A process owner who can make decisions about the workflow, a sample of real documents including the awkward ones, and access to the systems the workflow touches. Early on, reviewers spend more time in the exception queue while thresholds are tuned, and that time falls as the model settles. Your compliance team should see the design before the first release, not after it.

What happens when the model gets something wrong?

It is designed for. Every extracted field carries a confidence score, fields are cross-checked against other data, and anything below threshold goes to a named reviewer. Nothing passes without either a high score or a human signature. A documented threshold policy explains exactly when a machine decision stands and when a person must confirm it.

Will our compliance team accept it?

They get what stopped most pilots: an answer to what happens when it is wrong. Role-based access, decision logging, explainability and human sign-off on consequential steps are designed into the system. The audit trail is written for compliance readers, and AI-generated changes to the code are logged against who approved them.

What if a workflow is not ready for automation?

Then we tell you. The AI readiness assessment looks at where your data, systems and governance actually stand before anything is committed. Sometimes it shows a planned automation would not pay back. You keep the findings and the cycle-time instrumentation whether or not the program continues, and we count that honest answer as a good outcome.

Next step

Book a 45 minute AI readiness review.

We will tell you which of your workflows is worth automating first, and which are not.

Your first seven days are on us. Plan, strategy and solution architecture, before any commitment.

Not ready to talk? Take the 8 minute readiness assessment