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Workflow

Category: Agents

“WORK-flow”

A fixed set of steps an AI follows in order, every time — unlike an agent that decides its own path.

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Think of it like…

A recipe card: same steps, same order, repeatable results.

Everyday example

Photo comes in, gets resized, gets labeled, gets filed — always in that order.

Construction example

Site photo → damage summary → draft change order → email to the client.

Business example

Invoice arrives → data pulled out → matched to a PO → queued for approval.

Why this matters

Most business value comes from boring, reliable workflows — not clever improvised agents.

One-sentence summary

A workflow is fixed AI steps run in the same order every time.

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