Cut a three-hour trading workflow to about 20 minutes

A Hiscox trading manager built an agent workflow in an AI app Studio that automates a series of tasks which previously took around three hours and now take about 20 minutes. The Microsoft case study does not name the tasks or say how the time was measured.

How it works

Identify a task series taking about three hours
Build an agent workflow in an AI app Studio
Workflow runs the series in about 20 minutes

Why it’s worth knowing

A non-engineer rebuilt a three-hour process as an agent workflow on a low-code builder.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on windowsforum.com. See the original ↗

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