Workflow library

Production AI workflow patterns

Each page is built from verified production cases. You'll find the implementation structure, what fails on first deployment, tools seen in real workflows, and fit signals — not a generic overview.

Curated workflow patterns
Finance ops
Invoice processing automation
Email to ERP with zero manual entry. AI extraction, PO validation, straight-through posting, and exception queue.
AI extraction straight-through posting
Customer ops
Support ticket automation
Classify, search KB, generate response, confidence-gate, and route. Evidence drawn from published deployments at Klarna, Synthesia, Intercom Fin, and Koralplay.
confidence-gated human-in-the-loop
Legal
Contract review automation
Clause extraction, playbook comparison, risk flagging, and lawyer review queue. Evidence from JP Morgan COIN, Legartis at Arvato, LegalOn, and Preply. When general LLMs are not enough.
clause extraction lawyer review queue
HR & onboarding
Employee onboarding automation
Parallel provisioning triggered on contract sign. IT accounts, department notifications, HR tasks — simultaneously. HR chatbot for ongoing self-service.
parallel provisioning contract-sign trigger
Sales
Lead capture automation
Capture, enrich, CRM write, route, and sequence. Where per-task pricing breaks you and self-hosted orchestration earns its keep.
enrichment + routing CRM-native
More categories — production case aggregations
IT ops
IT ops automation
IT ops production workflows: provisioning, alert triage, infra automation, and access management. Tools used, what fails first.
verified production
Operations
Operations automation
Cross-functional operations workflows in production. Tools, sub-patterns, named companies, and the most common first-deployment failures.
verified production
Healthcare
Healthcare automation
Production AI workflows in healthcare. Tools, named providers, compliance considerations, and where deployments fail first.
verified production
Developer tools
Developer tools automation
Production AI workflows for developer tooling: code review, deploy gates, internal tooling. What teams ship and what tends to break.
verified production
Data ops
Data ops automation
Data pipeline and ETL automation in production. Tools used, failure modes, and the patterns teams have settled on.
verified production
By vendor
Vendor
n8n
Open-source workflow automation platform with 500+ integrations and native AI nodes. The most-represented orchestrator in the library.
cross-category
Vendor
Slack
Team communication platform used as a notification surface, approval gate, and chatbot host across HR, sales, and operations workflows.
cross-category
Vendor
Airtable
Spreadsheet-database hybrid commonly used as the source of truth for operations, content, and lead workflows that need a structured backing store.
cross-category
Vendor
Zapier
Per-task workflow builder with 6,000+ integrations. Common starter tool for teams under 500 tasks/month — replaced by self-hosted orchestrators above that threshold.
cross-category
Vendor
Claude API
Anthropic's API for production AI extraction, classification, summarization, and reasoning. Common pairing with n8n, custom backends, and document workflows.
cross-category
About this library

Pattern pages are deeply curated narratives — they walk through a single workflow type with hand-picked production cases, failure modes, and fit signals. Category and vendor pages are aggregations of every relevant workflow in the library, with breakdowns by tool, named-company coverage, and observed first-deployment failures. Pages not yet built: email-to-CRM, order processing, approval routing, report generation, data sync. Excluded because available data is insufficient for a non-thin page — quality over count.

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