Every result below is set against a manual baseline we timed during the audit, so the improvement is a comparison rather than a claim. Client names are withheld, the numbers are not.
In all four, the winning workflow was something nobody considered difficult. It was simply done hundreds of times a week by people who were needed elsewhere.
Pattern 02
The handoff rule mattered more than the model
Trust came from knowing exactly which cases still reached a person. Once that was written down, teams let the agent take more, not less.
Pattern 03
The second workflow paid for the first
Every client extended within six months, because the connectors and evals from the first build made the next one materially cheaper.