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Document Intake & Verification Agent

Classifies, extracts, verifies and files inbound documents into the system of record.

55–80% straight-through processing on clean cases

The problem. Document-heavy processes stall on manual keying and verification, so cycle time is unpredictable, exception handling is invisible, and throughput is capped by how many people are keying today.

The agent classifies each inbound document, extracts the fields that matter, cross-checks them against the application and third-party sources, and writes verified data into the system of record.

Discrepancies are not guessed: they become structured exceptions with the conflicting evidence side by side for a human to resolve.

Confidence thresholds per field decide what passes straight through and what needs review.

Before

Documents queue for manual keying, errors surface downstream, and throughput scales only with headcount.

After

Documents are processed on arrival, clean cases flow straight through, and people work only genuine exceptions.

Reference architecture

Where this agent sits in the stack.

Document, decision and workflow automation layered over the process platforms and systems of record you already run.

Process intakeSystems of record
  1. 01

    Intake channels

    Email, portals, EDI, scanned documents, shared mailboxes and API events captured into a single classified queue.

  2. 02

    Document intelligence

    OCR, IDP and LLM extraction with confidence scoring, validation rules and straight-through-processing thresholds per document type.

  3. 03

    Decision & workflow orchestration

    Business rules, agentic steps and process orchestration across BPM, RPA and native platform workflows — with exception routing.

  4. 04

    Exception & analyst desk

    A worklist for the cases automation should not close alone, with an analyst copilot that explains the extraction and proposed action.

  5. 05

    Core systems

    ERP, finance, ITSM, HCM and line-of-business systems updated through governed integrations rather than screen scraping.

Integration surface

  • Document capture, email and portal intake
  • Origination, policy or records system
  • Identity, KYC and third-party verification services
  • Workflow and exception queues

Guardrails & human oversight

  • Per-field confidence thresholds govern straight-through processing versus review.
  • Any discrepancy against a source of truth raises an exception rather than an assumption.
  • Every action outside policy stops at a reviewer queue with the agent's reasoning, evidence and proposed change attached.
  • Fraud and tamper signals stop processing and escalate.

What has to be true first

  • A representative sample of real document types for evaluation.
  • Write access to the system of record with a sandbox.
  • Agreed accuracy thresholds per field with the process owner.

Security, data & compliance

  • Runs under a dedicated service identity with least-privilege, per-tool scopes — never a shared admin account.
  • Customer and employee data stays inside your tenancy and region; no training on your data by default.
  • PII is redacted before it reaches a model, and prompts, responses and tool calls are retained under your retention policy.
  • Every tool call, input, decision and system write is logged and replayable for audit and model-risk review.
Rollout

How this agent reaches production.

  1. Weeks 1–3 · Scope

    Document taxonomy, field-level accuracy targets, exception design.

  2. Weeks 4–8 · Build

    Classification, extraction, verification calls, system-of-record writes.

  3. Weeks 9–12 · Production pilot

    Live on one document family with dual-key verification during ramp.

  4. Quarter 2+ · Scale & run

    Additional document families with throughput and accuracy SLAs.

Measurement plan

What we agree to be measured on.

Ranges drawn from comparable production engagements. Your baseline is agreed before build starts, and the same numbers are reported after go-live.

MetricExpected range
Straight-through processing rate55–80% of clean cases
Document cycle time60–80% faster
Field-level extraction accuracy97%+ on in-scope fields
Cost per processed document40–60% lower

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Production pilot

One document family live with dual-key verification and a measured accuracy and cycle-time result.

Fixed-price scope · milestone billing · price on request.

Scale & run

Full document estate with exception analytics and throughput SLAs across business lines.

Retained pod · quarterly outcome review · price on request.

Agent specification

The full Document Intake & Verification Agent specification, as a PDF.

A multi-page specification your architecture, security and procurement reviewers can read without a call: what the agent does, the architecture, the integration surface, autonomy and guardrails, security posture, rollout plan, measurement plan and engagement shape.

  • Process before and after, with the decision that stays with a human
  • Layered architecture diagram and named integration surface
  • Guardrails, approval gates, escalation and audit trail
  • Security, data handling and compliance posture
  • Phase-by-phase rollout and the measurement plan
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