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Illustrative architecture: Agentic automation

LLM-Powered Business Process Automation

LLMs extract, classify, interpret, summarize, and propose actions from unstructured work. Deterministic services validate, route, enforce rules, execute APIs, persist state, retry, and audit.

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LLM-Powered Business Process Automation architecture
HumanOperations reviewer
AgentExtraction and interpretation agent
ServiceValidation, rules, routing, state, retry
DataDocuments and business records
ExternalEmail, forms, CRM, ERP, and APIs
ApprovalHigh-impact action review
Architecture summary

LLM-Powered Business Process Automation system boundary

Email, documents, and forms trigger a workflow where an LLM extracts, classifies, interprets, summarizes, and proposes. Deterministic validation, business rules, routing, approval, API execution, state, retry, and audit control the action.

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HumanOperations reviewer
AgentExtraction and interpretation agent
ServiceValidation, rules, routing, state, retry
DataDocuments and business records
ExternalEmail, forms, CRM, ERP, and APIs
ApprovalHigh-impact action review
End-to-end workflow

LLM-Powered Business Process Automation execution path

Incoming work is parsed, the agent proposes structured intent using retrieved business data, deterministic checks validate fields and rules, exceptions move to a human queue, and approved low-risk or reviewed high-impact actions update external systems.

LLM-Powered Business Process Automation human and agent interaction
HumanOperations reviewer
AgentExtraction and interpretation agent
ServiceValidation, rules, routing, state, retry
ApprovalHigh-impact action review
ExternalEmail, forms, CRM, ERP, and APIs
DataDocuments and business records
Context and data flow

LLM-Powered Business Process Automation context movement

The agent receives bounded source content, relevant business records, extraction schema, and rule outcomes. Persisted state records source references, proposed values, validation, approval, execution, notification, and audit history.

Agent responsibilities and boundaries

LLM-Powered Business Process Automation ownership limits

The LLM does not enforce rules, approve high-impact actions, execute unrestricted APIs, own retries, or decide whether a write succeeded. Humans handle exceptions and configured approvals.

Deterministic controls

LLM-Powered Business Process Automation enforced controls

Schema validation, rule checks, routing, approval thresholds, idempotency, replay protection, retries, durable state, API adapters, notifications, and audit are deterministic.

Security and permissions

LLM-Powered Business Process Automation trust boundaries

Untrusted content is isolated from instructions, integrations use least privilege, sensitive fields follow access and retention controls, and action history remains reviewable.

Scaling and reliability

LLM-Powered Business Process Automation operating model

Durable queues, batch processing, bounded concurrency, provider rate limits, model routing, retry budgets, and exception queues absorb uneven document and event volume.

Failure modes and recovery

LLM-Powered Business Process Automation recovery paths

Invalid extraction returns to review, missing business data pauses action, API failures retry within budget, duplicate events reuse idempotency state, and uncertain writes enter reconciliation before replay.

Software testing

LLM-Powered Business Process Automation deterministic test coverage

Tests cover schemas, rules, routing, approval thresholds, idempotency, replay, retries, adapters, notifications, and audit, alongside representative unstructured inputs.

AI evaluation

LLM-Powered Business Process Automation behavior evaluation

Agent evaluations measure extraction, classification, interpretation, summarization, proposal validity, uncertainty, and escalation. Deterministic assertions verify every executed update.

Observability and AgentOps

LLM-Powered Business Process Automation operational evidence

Traces connect source ingestion, model output, retrieved records, validation, rule results, human decisions, API attempts, notifications, retries, and final state.

Deployment model

LLM-Powered Business Process Automation deployment boundaries

Trigger services, agent workers, rules engine, approval queue, state store, adapters, and audit pipeline deploy separately with scoped credentials.

Engineering tradeoffs

LLM-Powered Business Process Automation deliberate constraints

LLMs improve handling of unstructured inputs but remain probabilistic. The architecture assigns interpretation to the model and keeps enforcement and execution in deterministic software.

Evidence position

LLM-Powered Business Process Automation claim boundary

Illustrative automation architecture only. No cost saving, return on investment, cycle-time result, or customer outcome is claimed.

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