AI Automation Tool to Design Business Workflows
October 14th, 2026
Leading Managed Intelligence Partner (MIP) Provides Innovative Technology to Transform and Enhance Processes
CONCORD, CA - ATS, a leading managed intelligence partner (MIP), announced the launch of a new AI-powered automation solution designed to help small and mid-sized businesses complete repetitive back-office work faster, improve accuracy, and create more efficient workflows without requiring employees to become software developers.
Most businesses have routine processes that consume far more time than owners realize. For example, accounting teams compare invoices with billing records. Managers assemble information from several data systems to create reports. Employees copy data between spreadsheets, prepare recurring documents, follow up on incomplete forms, and manually check whether information matches.
Individually, these assignments may appear minor. Across an entire organization, though, they can absorb hundreds of employee hours every month. Consider an employee comparing service records, customer invoices, and accounting data: they may need to export information from several platforms, review rows individually, identify discrepancies, and prepare a summary for management. With AI automation, that employee can design a repeatable process that collects the approved information, checks for inconsistencies, organizes the results, and produces a report for review on a recurring basis.
"Most businesses do not need another piece of software that gives their employees more work," said Sanford Gladding, President at ATS. "They need technology that can take a repetitive process off someone's desk and complete it accurately. The purpose of this solution is essentially to give everyone on a team a software developer and AI automation expert, so they have even more resources to perform. Once they're not mired in the mundane, they can be strategic and help propel your organization to new heights. While many AI tools are incredibly complex, we've put together a simple solution."
Unlike traditional chatbots that explain how to perform a task, the new AI Workflow Automation technology can carry out a series of approved steps and deliver a finished result.
Rather than asking owners to select tools, build complicated integrations, or learn technical systems, ATS can help identify a useful process, define the desired outcome, and design an automation around the way the company already operates. This allows businesses to begin with a specific problem instead of purchasing random AI technology without a clear, practical use for it.
Human oversight remains an important part of the process. Employees and managers can review completed work, confirm accuracy, and maintain control over decisions that affect customers, finances, employees, or business operations. This combination of automation and human judgment enables businesses to increase speed without blindly handing important responsibilities to a machine. Effectively, everyone on a team is now in leadership and has their own direct AI reports to manage.
"Your team should be designing processes and delegating repetitive execution to AI," added Gladding. "The goal is not to automate everything simply because we can. The goal is to identify work that repeatedly consumes valuable employee time and ask whether technology can handle the routine portion more efficiently. That gives people more time to solve problems, serve customers, and perform the work that requires their judgment or is more personally fulfilling."
"AI should not be a science project," Gladding concluded. "It should solve a real business problem. When we meet with you and can help you turn hours of repetitive work into a process that is completed quickly and consistently, it gives the organization additional capacity without simply asking employees to work harder."
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