Describe the work once. It runs from then on.
A process in Bixie runs from beginning to end without anyone assembling it. Each stage has a defined remit, anything consequential waits for the person you nominated, and you can watch every stage as it happens.
Why It Matters
What changes when you run this at your size.
Nobody has to become a developer to change a process
Automation programmes usually stall because the people who understand the process cannot change it and the people who can change it are booked for two quarters. Here a process is described in words and revised the same way, so the queue in front of your automation team stops being the constraint on how fast the business improves.
It holds up across long-running, cross-department work
The processes worth automating at your size run for days, touch several departments and involve approvals from people in different time zones. Work that pauses for a signature and resumes three days later is normal rather than an edge case, and a step failing does not send anyone back to the beginning.
You can prove what happened, months later
Every run keeps the order of what happened, what it drew on and what it cost. When a regulator, an auditor or a board member asks why something was done, the answer already exists rather than needing to be reconstructed from memory and inboxes.
What It Does
The detail behind the claim.
An agent can carry out work, review it, audit it, validate it or watch for something. It can only reach what you have granted, and it cannot widen that on its own. The blast radius of any one agent is a decision you made rather than something you discover.
Fixed steps where the process is settled and you want it identical every time. A more adaptive mode for work that has to be figured out as it goes. A conversational mode where the value is the expertise rather than the sequence.
Run it to a schedule, start it by hand, let another system raise it, or let an email into a shared inbox begin it. A finalised document can start one too, which is how a signed-off compliance review begins its own remediation.
What one stage produces is handed straight to the next. The exports, re-keyed figures and hand-offs that cause most of the errors in a manual process are simply not present.
Any step can pause for a named person, who sees what is about to change before they decide. Approval is part of how the process runs rather than a policy you hope people follow.
Every run shows each step in order, how long it took and what it cost. Pause, resume or stop something already under way, and correct it part-way through when circumstances change.
Worth knowing
- A process still needs someone who understands the work to review the plan before it runs the first time.
- Adaptive mode is the right choice less often than people expect. Most valuable processes are settled enough for fixed steps, which are cheaper and more predictable.
By Function
Where teams apply this first
The rest of the platform
See it against your own process
Bring something that currently costs your team a day a month. We will build it on the call rather than describe it, and you can watch every step it takes.