Six-Step AI Workflow with Human Oversight
Each step shows the workspace, what the AI completed, and what still needs human review.
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How a Growth-Stage Educational Institution Built Articles That Cite the Course Catalogue Behind Every Claim
Keeps a growth-stage school publishing faster than its team can write, and never lets a claim about a programme go out that the course catalogue does not back. Written for an org where the record is the point: every draft cites the catalogue line behind every fact, every headline winner is picked by the numbers, and the only things left for a person are the drafts waiting on the editor and the month waiting on a signature. Six stations, run as a loop: what station 6 counts decides what station 1 briefs.
What Was Broken
What We Built
Six stations and 14 subagents. Each subagent carries its own tasks and its own refusal.
How It Runs
Topic Research
Nobody is asked anything hereAgents scan what prospective students actually search for, watch the pages competitors already hold, and write a brief for every topic worth the school's time. Nothing waits on a person here. The plan signed at station 6 is what fills this queue.
Drafting
Nobody is asked anything hereAgents write each brief into a full draft in the school's voice, cite the catalogue line behind every programme fact, and set the title, headings and links around the term the brief named. A person sees the draft only at station 3, with every flag already attached to it.
Editorial Review
A person answers hereAgents assemble each draft for the editor: the brief beside it, every flag, every cited fact one click deep, and the three lines that say what needs ruling on. This is where a person works. Nothing carries the school's name until the editor says so.
Publishing
Nobody is asked anything hereAgents slot each cleared piece into the calendar, format it for the site, the newsletter and the social accounts, push it live, and check the live page before any reader finds it broken. Nobody signs here. The editor's ruling at station 3 was the last signature a piece needs.
Headline Testing
Nobody is asked anything hereAgents write two openings for a page picked for a test, split its visitors between them, count enquiries rather than clicks, and roll out the winner when the numbers can carry the call. Nobody picks a winner here. The numbers do, and a person reads the closed tests when they want to know what framing wins.
Performance Review
A person answers hereAgents track every published page against the term its brief named, trace each enquiry back to the pages that earned it, and draft next month's brief list from what the month taught. A person signs the month and the next plan, because somebody must own the numbers.
Where a Person Decides
Operating Model
This changes how work flows through the team.
What Transfers, What Must Be True
Failure Modes
What breaks this pattern:
Nobody sources the demand number, so the brief carries a guess. The school pays a writer for pages on topics nobody searches for.
A draft goes live under the school's name before the editor says so. The first person to catch a wrong fee is a parent.
The test ends when someone likes a headline, not when the numbers settle. The team then copies that pattern to every other page.
An enquiry the system cannot trace gets assigned to a likely page. The monthly report then rewards pages that never earned a lead, and the budget follows them.
Directional Outcomes
What the agent counts, and the station that counts it.
These counts are the tallies from one monitored run of the agents. They are not monthly or annual totals.
What Runs Where
Every step names the subagent that does the work, the record it writes, the thing that raises a question for a person, and what it is allowed to touch. This is drawn from the source, not from a diagram somebody kept in sync by hand.
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Every system this agent reads or writes.