Runwork for Operations Teams

The process works, as long as the person who built it is at their desk.

Someone automated the thing everyone complained about. It runs on their laptop, and it stops when they close it or go on holiday. On Runwork it runs in the team cloud on a schedule, and everyone's AI can trigger it.

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The Challenge

The person who automated it is the only one who can run it
It stops the moment they close the laptop or go on holiday
Everyone else still does the same steps by hand, their own way
The process lives in one chat history, so nobody else can repeat it
You can't see who has picked this up and who is still stuck

The Runwork Solution

The process runs on a schedule in your team cloud, not on one laptop
What one person teaches their AI, every teammate's AI knows the next morning
Whatever your agent makes gets a home the whole team can find and run
Approvals, alerts and handoffs keep moving while nobody is watching
You can see who is using it and who needs a hand

What your team gets

Vendor tracking that survives a holiday

Contracts, SLAs and scorecards in one place, updating on their own. Nobody has to remember to check.

Stock alerts nobody has to watch

Reorder points get checked while you sleep, and the purchase order is drafted and waiting for your approval.

One intake for every internal request

Requests land in one queue, route themselves to the right approver, and the person who asked can see where theirs is.

Incidents that leave a record

Every incident logged the same way by anyone's AI, so the pattern shows up after the third one instead of the thirtieth.

Onboarding that runs the same every time

Access, equipment, training and check-ins happen in order whether or not the person who wrote the process is around.

Capacity numbers ready on Monday

Utilization and forecast pulled from your systems overnight, so planning starts from data instead of a rebuilt spreadsheet.

A Day in the Life

7:00 AM: Morning checks. Before you get in, the scheduled report is already in your inbox: overnight stock movements, vendors that missed an SLA, facility alerts. You worked this out once with your own AI. It ran at 6 AM in the team cloud, pulled from four systems, and it will run tomorrow whether or not your laptop is open.

9:00 AM: Vendor issue. A supplier missed a delivery. You log it in the vendor tool and the workflow takes it from there: the account manager gets notified, a follow-up task appears, the vendor's score drops. Reliability becomes something you can show people instead of something you feel.

11:00 AM: Process improvement. Facilities says work orders take too long. You look at the workflow and the holdup is manager approval, averaging 18 hours. You tell your AI to auto-approve requests under $500 from verified employees. The change is live for the whole team, not only on your machine.

2:00 PM: Inventory alert. Stock of a critical component hit its reorder point, and the automation already drafted the PO to your preferred vendor. You check the quantities and approve. It caught this at 2 PM because it never stops watching.

4:00 PM: New hire on Monday. The onboarding automation starts: access requests, equipment, training schedule, first-week check-ins, each routed to a person with a due date. These are the steps your best ops person worked out, so everyone's version is that version.

5:00 PM: Someone else's turn. Leadership wants a supplier scorecard by next week. Your colleague tells her agent what leadership asked for, it shapes the thing around your KPIs, and it lands in the same cloud as everything else, running on a schedule. On the team dashboard you can see the part that matters: last quarter she was not the kind of person who shipped this. Now she is.

Frequently Asked Questions

What happens to the process when the person who set it up is away?

It keeps going. The process runs on a schedule in your team cloud, so it does not care whose laptop is open. Reorder alerts, vendor scoring, work order routing and onboarding tasks all fire on time, and anyone on the team can trigger them from their own AI tool.

We run operations out of spreadsheets. What happens to those?

Your own AI turns the spreadsheet into something with structure: validation, permissions, alerts, and a connection to the systems the numbers came from. It lives in Runwork rather than in one person's Drive, so every teammate's AI can read and update the same data.

How do approvals and routing work?

You set the rules once in plain language: amount thresholds, department, request type. Requests go to the right approver, approvers can act from email, delays escalate on their own, and every decision leaves a record you can pull up later.

Will this work with our ERP, HRIS and facility systems?

Yes. Runwork connects to 3,300+ integrations, including ERP and HRIS platforms, so your data stays where it is and your team's AI can still reach it. Nothing has to be replaced for this to be useful in a week.

Do we have to build everything from scratch?

No. Your agent already has your workspace: the integrations you connected, the data you keep, and whatever your team has taught it before. Inventory, vendor tracking, onboarding, work order routing. Describe the one you actually run, and it builds against your real setup rather than a template shaped around somebody else's process.

How do we know if the team is actually using any of this?

The team dashboard shows who is using which skills and automations, and where the gaps are. Ops leads usually find one or two people quietly carrying everything, which is a conversation you can only have once you can see it.

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