Data entry operations time cut 97% — from 5 minutes to 10 seconds per record
Team was manually keying data from source documents into their database. Each entry took 4-5 minutes of copying, formatting, and validating. At scale this was consuming significant team capacity.
Operation time reduced from 4-5 minutes to 10-20 seconds per record. That is a 97% reduction in execution time. Error rate dropped from 5% manual to near zero automated. 'By making this workflow we reduced this whole operation time from four to five minutes down to about 10 to 20 seconds.' — System team.
First version skipped validation step — garbage data corrupted the database. Added strict validation layer after the first week. Also tried to process all document types with one universal prompt — accuracy was poor. Switched to document-type-specific extraction prompts.
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