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Judgement applied to routine work

For work that requires a decision rather than a fixed rule, and only where a decision is genuinely needed.

What it is

Most tasks do not need AI. Some genuinely do.

A fixed rule can move an order from one system to another. A fixed rule cannot read forty supplier emails, identify the three that contain price changes, and tell you which of your quotes are now out of date.

That is the distinction we work to. Where a rule is sufficient, we write a rule, because it is cheaper, faster and entirely predictable. Where the information arriving is unstructured, an agent is the better answer.

Every agent we build follows your rules, records how it reached each decision, and passes anything uncertain to a person. It does not set policy.

What it includes

The things we are usually asked for

  • Inbox triage: reading what arrives, classifying it, and routing it to the right person with a summary.
  • Document handling: taking the figures from invoices, delivery notes and supplier PDFs into your systems.
  • Draft quotes and replies prepared from the customer's own words, for a human to approve.
  • Checking work against your rules and identifying anything unexpected before it is sent.
  • Answering the same internal question fifty times a week from your own documented processes.
  • A written record of what the agent decided and why, so you can audit it.
What changes

What you'd actually notice

The inbox arrives sorted

What comes in is already classified, summarised and assigned.

Typical: 5 to 10 hours a week

Fewer errors reach customers

Work is checked before it is sent rather than after it is returned.

Typical: identified the same day

Work continues regardless

The knowledge is held by the system, so the task runs whoever is in that day.

Typical: always available

A business receiving a high volume of supplier email

Forty to sixty supplier emails each day: price changes, stock notices, delivery delays and invoices. One person read all of them and forwarded the important ones, which meant the process depended entirely on that person being available.

The build: an agent reads each email, classifies it, extracts the figures, updates the record and posts a short summary twice a day. Anything unclear is passed to a person with the original message attached.

It does not set prices, contact suppliers or approve anything. Those decisions remain with people, by design.

Illustration of the work, not a client story

Straight answers

Questions we get on this

Where does our data go?

As little as possible leaves your environment, and anything that does is anonymised first. Where the work can run on a model hosted on your own infrastructure, we will offer that.

How do you keep it accurate?

Agents follow explicit rules, pass anything outside those rules to a person, and record every decision so you can review exactly how a result was reached.

Twenty minutes, and three tasks named

Tell us which tasks take the most time. On the call we will tell you which of them we would automate first, what the work involves, and what it would cost.

We would rather build one small thing that runs for years than sell you a large system you have to keep paying for.

You will hear back the same working day

Book the audit

Prefer email? hello@millandwright.com. Send us the one task that takes the most time and we will tell you whether it is worth automating.

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