17/09/2026
"We need an AI agent for this"
Sometimes that's right. Often the same work would run on a set of rules and an integration, for a fraction of the cost and none of the monitoring.
What settles it isn't the technology, but the shape of the work: what the process produces, how much of it can be written down as rules, and how often someone has to make a call.
Three questions in the carousel, starting with the cheapest option, to help you work out which one your process calls for ๐๐ผ