Automation

AI automation

Terms

6 terms

  • Agent automation

    Agent automation uses AI agents that plan steps and call tools toward a goal, rather than following a fixed workflow defined in advance.

  • AI workflow

    An AI workflow is an automated process with a predefined sequence of steps in which AI models classify, extract, generate or summarize content at set points.

  • Human approval gate

    A human approval gate pauses an AI automation workflow until an authorized person reviews and approves, edits or rejects the proposed action.

  • Intelligent automation

    Intelligent automation combines rule-based automation such as RPA and workflows with AI that reads, classifies and decides, to automate whole processes.

  • Intelligent document processing IDP

    Intelligent document processing (IDP) uses AI to classify documents and extract validated, structured data from them for automated business workflows.

  • Structured output

    Structured output makes a language model return data in a defined machine-readable format, usually JSON matching a schema, so automation can use it.