Workflow Analysis

AI Opportunities

Understand the AI automation opportunities identified in your workflows and how to take action on them.

What are AI Opportunities?

AI opportunities are specific points in your workflow where artificial intelligence can automate, enhance, or optimize tasks. When you analyze a workflow, CogniFlow identifies these opportunities and maps them to one of six AI primitives.

How Opportunities are Found

Our AI analyzes your workflow descriptions, looking for patterns that match common automation use cases. It considers the type of task, data involved, and potential for improvement.

The 6 AI Primitives

Every AI opportunity maps to one of these fundamental AI capabilities:

Classification

Automatically categorizing items, routing requests, or making decisions based on defined criteria.

Sorting customer inquiries by type
Prioritizing support tickets
Categorizing expenses
Generation

Creating content, documents, responses, or other outputs from input data.

Drafting email responses
Creating reports
Generating summaries
Transformation

Converting data from one format to another or restructuring information.

Format conversion
Data normalization
Language translation
Extraction

Pulling specific information from documents, forms, or unstructured data.

Invoice data extraction
Resume parsing
Form field recognition
Reasoning

Making logical conclusions, analyzing information, or providing recommendations.

Risk assessment
Compliance checking
Root cause analysis
Prediction

Forecasting future outcomes, trends, or behaviors based on historical data.

Demand forecasting
Churn prediction
Resource planning

Viewing Opportunities

After running analysis, you can view AI opportunities for each node:

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Click on any node with the "Analyzed" indicator
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Look for the "AI Opportunities" section in the node details panel
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Review the recommended AI primitive and suggested automation
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See the potential impact and implementation considerations

Taking Action on Opportunities

Once you've identified AI opportunities, here's how to move forward:

Prioritize

Start with high-impact, low-complexity opportunities. Look for tasks that are repetitive and time-consuming.

Evaluate Tools

Research AI tools that match the identified primitive. Many solutions exist for common use cases.

Pilot First

Test automation on a small scale before full implementation. Measure results and refine.

Scale Up

Once proven, expand the automation to similar processes across your organization.

Common Automation Patterns

Quick Wins

  • Email triage - Classification to auto-route or prioritize
  • Document processing - Extraction from forms and invoices
  • Report generation - Generation of summaries and updates
  • Data entry - Transformation of data between systems
  • Customer inquiries - Classification and suggested responses

Implementation Considerations

  • • Ensure data quality before automating - AI needs good input to produce good output
  • • Consider compliance and security requirements for your industry
  • • Plan for human oversight, especially for critical decisions
  • • Train your team on working alongside AI tools

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