Episode Details

Could better business processes create room for a four-day working week? Gary Robertson explores how agentic AI might reduce repetitive administration and help people work together with less friction.

Follow an illustrative ground-mat enquiry from marketing and customer questions through quotation, human approval, delivery and invoicing. The point is the handover: each part of the business receives the information it needs to keep the work moving.

• How connected AI agents could support sales, operations and accounts.
• Why human approval remains part of the quotation process.
• What leaders could choose to do with time saved through better coordination.

The four-day week and automation figures discussed are a vision to explore, not measured results or a promise for every organisation.

Consider this: Which handover creates the most avoidable work in your business?

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