Document automation for consistently branded sales documents
Docbot combined company templates, approved information and a message-based request process to make everyday document production more consistent.
- Scope
- Template design and document workflow automation
- Work status
- Previous implementation
- Relevant offering
- Workflow automation ↗
“Create an operations briefing from the approved company information.”
Document type: briefingApproved information
Operations
briefing.
Purpose of the work
Scope & responsibilities
When a brand change leaves documents fragmented
A company brand change had left salespeople working with a mixture of old and new document styles. The result depended on which files and templates someone happened to use.
James reports that salespeople were spending around six hours each per week creating documents. This was the prior workload, not a measured saving from the new workflow.
Building the house style into document production
The work combined a new set of templates with an always-on cloud agent. According to James's account of the deployment, staff could request documents through email, iMessage or WhatsApp.
The workflow used approved company information and the shared templates to generate documents in the company's house style. It could ask the requester for missing information before completing the document.
From a request to a usable output
The process brought the request, clarification and document generation into one route. Staff could describe what they needed through a familiar channel and receive a consistently styled document.
James reports individual document turnaround in minutes. That describes the time to produce an output; it does not establish a weekly time saving across the sales team.
How the work connects
From the information.
To the decision.
- 01Human input / decision
Describe the document
A member of staff requests a document through a messaging channel. The founder account includes email, iMessage and WhatsApp.
- 02Human input / decision
Clarify what is missing
The workflow can ask for missing information, which the requester supplies.
- 03Workflow step
Use the shared sources
Approved company information and the selected template provide the content and house style.
- 04Workflow step
Return the document
The workflow produces the document for the requester. The founder reports individual outputs in minutes.
The result
What changed
Template design, company information and document production became part of one repeatable workflow. Staff gained a straightforward way to request a document in the current house style, rather than relying on whichever old file they could find.
How we can help
Workflow automation