Agentic Process Automation

An agentic workflow is ready only when every action sits inside an approved decision boundary, leaves a trace, and has a tested exception, reconciliation, and stop path.

We build the process around an agent that can choose only approved actions. Permissions, exception queues, reconciliation, and a tested stop path stay with it, then your operating owner takes over.

Your process owner can run the tested workflow, check the operating brief for permissions, open exceptions, and stop steps, read the failure findings, and name the next review date.

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Illustration of Agentic Process Automation: a team redesigning a workflow around automated and human steps

Some of the 500+ brands we've worked with

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  • GE
  • Enpara
  • Cimri
  • Zorlu PSM
  • Bluemint
  • Armut.com
  • Odamax

Steps, gates, and who decides

How we work

Nobody relies on the agent on faith. Before release we make its choices, permissions, side effects, and human interventions inspectable.

  1. Agree decisions and authority

    Representative cases set the decision charter: the agent’s job, allowed actions, approval points, exception owners, and the conditions that end a run.

    AI assist
    From process interviews and example transcripts, a draft decision-boundary list emerges for review.
    Human gate
    Are the agent's permissions and human authorities explicit? The process owner decides which actions the agent may take alone.

  2. Build the scoped workflow

    We connect the agent’s decision logic, permitted tools, dependencies, approvals, exception queue, and reconciliation checks into the thinnest useful process slice. Every action has to leave a trace.

    AI assist
    Initial orchestration scaffolding comes from the model and links decision logic, tools, and reconciliation checks for review.
    Human gate
    Can every action be traced to an allowed decision path? The engineering lead approves the wiring before it can touch production tools.

  3. Challenge decisions and failures

    We run cases that cover both the expected path and the adverse ones, to investigate unsupported requests, missed exceptions, unavailable dependencies, and situations where the agent lacks enough evidence to act.

    AI assist
    The model proposes adversarial and edge-case scenarios aimed at missed exceptions and unsupported actions.
    Human gate
    Do critical exceptions close without hiding a failing slice? The exception owner reviews every critical failure before it is marked closed.

  4. Stage the handoff

    For handoff, we assemble the workflow, the operating evidence, open conditions, review triggers, and the stop procedure for the owner who will supervise it.

    AI assist
    From test results and open conditions, the model drafts the runbook narrative and evidence summary.
    Human gate
    Is there an accountable owner and a dated next review? The person you put in charge accepts the handoff and picks the date for the next check-in.

Named artifacts you keep

What you get

Together these artifacts show what the agent may do, what happened in testing, and who takes responsibility next.

  • Playbook

    Agentic workflow operations and stop-path plan

    The workflow's permission boundaries, approvals, exception paths, reconciliation behavior, and instructions for operating or stopping it.

  • Architecture document

    Workflow inputs and dependency inventory

    The examples, sources, assumptions, system dependencies, unresolved questions, and access conditions behind the workflow.

  • Test evidence

    Adverse-case and exception findings report

    Results from normal, adverse, and exception cases, including failures that need containment or retesting.

  • Decision record

    Residual-issue permissions and operating-owner brief

    The accepted conditions, residual issues, permissions, operating owner, review date, and next action.

Scope and honest limits

When to bring us in

The best candidate is a process where the next step varies enough to need an agent, but the possible actions still form a small, reviewable set. Anything consequential stays with a named person.

A good fit when

  • The decisions vary from case to case, but the agent still needs a small, explicit set of actions it may take without approval.
  • The representative cases exist, yet current constraints, unavailable dependencies, and new exception types have not been run through one workflow.
  • Exceptions reach different people today, so nobody can see who approves a permission, closes a failure, or accepts the operating handoff.
  • An agent can choose among approved actions, but the boundary between what it may do alone and what must stop for a person is still unwritten.
  • The workflow connects tools and dependencies, while reconciliation, fallback, and exception queues still behave differently when a system fails.
  • Normal decisions work in the demo, yet adverse cases have not shown whether unsupported actions, missed exceptions, and broken handoffs stay visible.
  • A staged release is planned, but the operating owner still lacks the evidence, review triggers, and stop procedure needed to take over.

Better handled as other work when

  • You want the agent to pursue open-ended autonomy without fixed permissions, escalation, or a responsible owner. This build is bounded by design.
  • You expect the agent to accept residual risk, widen its own scope, or approve release. Those calls remain with the people named in the workflow.
  • You need production operation or broader tool access beyond the agreed systems. Both require a separate scope.

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Engineers who ship production AI

This is the part of Zeo that writes and ships code. Our senior engineers build agents, chatbots, and RAG pipelines, along with the automation and data work around them, and they keep operating those systems once they're live. We've worked with more than 500 brands since 2011.

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Tools we use

Tools behind this work

  • CrewAI

    structures agent roles, allowed decisions, and collaboration boundaries

  • n8n

    connects approved agent actions to systems, queues, and reconciliation steps

  • Langfuse

    traces each automated run across tools, state, and exceptions

  • Datadog

    monitors workflow health, failures, queue growth, and stop-path activation

  • Guardrails AI

    validates agent decisions and action payloads before execution

Next step

Scope the agent before launch

Give us one process, the decisions you want delegated, and the owner responsible for exceptions. We will define a testable first slice.
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Before you decide

Questions we hear a lot

We need the specific decisions you want delegated, the intended actions, the people who own them, representative examples, current constraints, baseline evidence, system and tool access, exception cases, and the person who can accept the result. We agree on permissions and retention conditions before using any sensitive input.