The Six-Agent Method: Automate Document-Heavy Work with a Team of AI Agents
English | September 25, 2026 | ASIN: B0HKWWQKL9 | 112 pages | Epub | 1.24 MB
You already know which part of your job a machine should be doing.It's the hour you spend checking the same documents against the same rules. Fifty of them a day. And when one slips through, the cost isn't a typo. It's a penalty.So you tried an AI assistant. It was impressive, then it was confidently wrong about something sitting right there on page two, and you went back to doing it by hand.The problem wasn't the AI. It was asking one assistant to do six jobs at once.Prateek Srivastava has spent twelve years automating processes inside banks, where a mistake is expensive and an auditor eventually asks who approved it. This book sets out his method: split one messy, paperwork-heavy process into a small team of AI agents that each do one job, make every step say how sure it is and what it didn't check, and put people where they matter.What you'll learnHow to choose the one process worth automating first, and why the earliest step in a chain matters more than the most painful oneWhy a single agent fails, and how splitting the work shows you which part brokeThe six roles: classify, extract, check completeness, check consistency, apply the rulebook, route the exceptionsHow to set a confidence line so anything doubtful reaches a person, with the evidence already on screenHow to stop busy reviewers rubber-stamping the machine, drawing on research into automation biasWhy prompts alone fall apart once real users arrive, and what to do insteadHow to test against cases whose answers you already know, before anyone trusts the systemHow to prove what the system did, months later, to someone who wasn't thereHow to handle the part nobody writes about: managers who don't trust it, teams with no standard procedure, and staff who fear for their jobsWhat to do when there's no budget at allBuilt to be usedA full worked example follows one supplier invoice pack through all six roles, showing what each step produces and what the reviewer sees. The appendices give you plain-English starting instructions for each role, a rulebook template, one-page acceptance criteria and a monthly monitoring sheet.Who it's forThe people who design how work gets done: business analysts, product owners, consultants, and automation, transformation and IT teams, along with the operations and finance managers who own a process and have to improve it, often with no IT team to call. Useful anywhere documents arrive, get checked against rules and get passed on: banking, insurance, accounting, logistics, procurement, healthcare administration. No coding required, and no tools are recommended by name, so the method outlasts this year's products.This isn't a book about the future of AI. It's about the hour you'll get back on Monday.
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