Web app · Agent Opportunity Finder
Pick a function, tell us what you run and what matters most. You get a ranked shortlist of agent workflows, a value-versus-effort map and a suggested first deployment.
Only the first step is required. The more you tell us, the more the ranking reflects how you work.
Baxter Mountain Group · Agent Opportunity Finder · baxtermountain.ai/tools/agent-opportunity-finder
Your shortlist
Directional estimates, not an assessment. Scores come from the rubric below, applied to typical versions of these workflows and adjusted by what you told us. They are not a review of your company, data or controls. Use them to start a conversation, then test them against your own volumes and costs.
What this means
Your plan for the leadership meeting
A shortlist is not a plan. Sequence it: prove one agent, extend the pattern, then take on the big bet. Use Add to plan on any workflow in the ranking to swap it in.
What to ask leadership for
In our experience, the meeting goes better when you ask for one pilot with a named owner and a baseline, not a budget for the whole list. Show the later waves so people see where it leads, and let wave one earn them.
Send the shortlist to yourself and us, or book a call to pressure-test it against your own numbers.
The rubric
Every workflow carries three base scores from 1 to 5. We set them from what these workflows typically involve, then adjust them with your answers. Nothing here is a benchmark or a measurement of your business.
How much time, cash or error reduction the workflow can return, given how often it runs and what a mistake or delay costs.
How many systems the agent touches, how clean the data is likely to be and how much process design it needs first.
What happens if the agent gets it wrong: who is affected, whether money, people or regulators are involved, and how easy it is to reverse.
Try the rubric
Three real workflows from the library. Judge value against effort, then see how we scored it.
The best first agent is the one with the biggest prize.
The best first agent is the one you can ship, measure and trust within a quarter. It builds the integrations, controls and credibility that the big bet will need.
Fit = (prize × value gain + speed × effort ease + low risk × risk ease) ÷ total weight
Field guide
The same three questions sit behind every good agent shortlist. Use them on workflows that are not in our library.
A workflow is valuable when it runs often and when delay or error costs real money: late payments, lost discounts, unhappy customers, audit findings. How impressive the AI looks does not count. Drafting a job description is clever; clearing two thousand invoice exceptions a month is valuable.
Rule of thumbMultiply monthly volume by minutes per case, then ask what one mistake costs.
The model is rarely the hard part. Effort comes from the number of systems the agent must read and write, the state of the data in them, and how many unwritten rules people apply to the odd cases. Count those before you estimate.
Rule of thumbEach extra system roughly adds an integration, an access review and a round of testing.
Higher risk does not rule a workflow out. It changes where a person approves, what the agent may do alone and what the audit trail must show. Start low-risk to learn, then bring the same controls to higher-stakes work.
Rule of thumbAutomate up to about 80% of a task and keep people on decisions with financial, legal or customer risk.
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