🤖 AI Automation

Orchestrate Work End-to-End — Safely, Reliably, and With Proof

AI Automation is more than a chatbot or a cron job. It’s a coordinated system where models, rules, and runbooks execute business tasks—with guardrails, approvals, and evidence.
SolveForce delivers AI Automation across IT/SecOps, CX/Contact Center, Back-Office (Finance/HR/Legal/Procurement), RevOps, DevOps/DataOps/MLOps, Supply Chain, and Edge/OT—all running on the same rails: Zero Trust, policy-as-code, idempotent actions, observability, and compliance overlays.

Related foundations
• Platform & Guardrails → /solveforce-ai • Data → /etl-elt/data-warehouse • Search/RAG → /vector-databases
• Access & Security → /ztna/sase/nac/waf • Keys/Secrets → /key-management/secrets-management
• Evidence & Ops → /siem-soar • Cloud & Edge → /cloud/edge-data-centers
• Governance → /grc • Compliance → /hipaa/pci-dss/nist/soc2


🎯 Business Outcomes (what changes when automation is real)

  • Lead time shrinks — tasks that took hours/days complete in minutes with measurable error reduction.
  • People do higher-value work — assistants draft, triage, enrich, and execute, while humans decide and approve.
  • Risk stays managed — actions flow through policy gates, sandboxed simulations, and human-in-the-loop approvals.
  • Audits get easy — every decision, prompt, dataset, action, and rollback shows up as evidence in SIEM—with timestamps and diffs.

🧭 Reference Architecture (language-first, safety-first)

Rails (APIs & Events)

  • API-led + event-driven fabric with contracts, schema registry, idempotency keys, DLQs & replay. → /application-integration

Knowledge & Reasoning

Policy & Controls

  • Policy-as-code: who/what/where/when allowed; rate limits; purpose tags; regional boundaries; approval matrices (auto/peer/manager/legal).

Action Layer (Runbooks & Tools)

  • SOAR/IaC/RPA connectors with allow-listed functions; argument schema validation; step transactions with compensations.

Identity & Perimeter

Observability & Evidence

  • Traces/logs/metrics + config diffs to /siem-soar; cost & accuracy boards; refusal ledger; simulation vs production flows.

🧱 Core Capabilities

1) Task Understanding & Drafting

  • LLM planners extract entities/intents, call tools, and draft outputs (tickets, emails, PRs, purchase reqs), always with citations and change diffs.

2) Decision Engines

  • Rules + ML + thresholds (risk/amount/PII) choose automations or escalate to human. Feature stores feed consistent signals. → /etl-elt

3) Action Orchestration

  • Safe calls to systems (ITSM, IAM, EDR, WAF, CRM, ERP, CCaaS, cloud, Git, CI/CD). All actions idempotent, with retries + jitter, DLQs & rollbacks.

4) Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)

  • Approvals by role & dollar/risk thresholds; preview diffs; one-click accept, edit, or reject; SLA timers and ownership routing.

5) Guardrails

  • Prompt/tool firewalls; schema-validated arguments; rate/quotas; DLP redaction; policy gates; geofence & data residency; break-glass flow with TTL.

6) Simulation & Sandboxes

  • “Dry-run” mode for new playbooks; synthetic data tests; automatic A/B canaries with rollback on SLO breach.

🧰 Solution Bundles (snap-together starters)

A) IT & SecOps Automation (tickets → actions)

  • Auto-triage incidents/requests; password resets & access grants via SCIM/IdP; EDR isolate; WAF block; ZTNA policy tweak; backup restore tests; evidence to SIEM.
    /siem-soar/mdr-xdr/waf/ztna

B) Contact Center & CX Automation

  • Intent routing; knowledge answers with cite-or-refuse; PCI-safe payment capture; after-call summaries to CRM; proactive outreach triggers.
    /ccaas/email-security/pci-dss

C) Back-Office Automation (Finance/HR/Legal/Procurement)

  • AP/AR match & route; PO generation with policy checks; vendor onboarding (W-9/insurance) with DLP; contract clause extraction & redlines; payroll & benefits changes with approvals.

D) RevOps & Sales Assist

  • Lead enrichment & routing; quote assembly; renewal nudges; attribution sanity checks; pricing guardrails; meeting summaries → CRM with citations.

E) DevOps, DataOps & MLOps

F) Supply Chain & Field Ops

  • ASN/manifest ingest; dock/yard scheduling; exception triage; AR work instructions; evidence bundles (photos/GPS/timestamps); inventory audits with vision.
    /logistics/field-services

G) Edge/OT Automation (Industry 4.0)

  • Line changeovers; parameter tuning with guards; vision QC fail → eject & ticket; maintenance work orders with parts checks; vendor ZTNA jump-box flow.
    /industry-4-0-in-automation

🔐 Safety, Risk & Compliance (built-in)

  • Identity-first: human + service account policies; PAM JIT for privileged actions; session recording. → /pam
  • Data minimization: labels & masking; no raw PHI/PAN to external models; regional perimeters. → /dlp
  • Separation of duties: approvals required for sensitive changes; immutable logs.
  • Framework overlays: SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / NIST 800-53/171 / HIPAA / PCI DSS / FedRAMP. → /grc/nist/hipaa/pci-dss/fedramp

📐 SLO Guardrails (automation you can trust)

DomainKPI / SLO (p95 unless noted)Target (Recommended)
Task latencyDraft + decision time (simple)≤ 2–10 s
Execute time (approved)≤ 15–120 s (system-dependent)
QualityPrecision/recall (gold set)≥ 92–95% / ≥ 85–95%
CoverageAuto-handled tickets/requests≥ 50–70% eligible
HITLApproval SLA (P2/P3)≤ 15 / 60 min
SafetyRefusal correctness (guarded RAG)≥ 98%
SecuritySecrets via vault / long-lived keys= 100% / = 0
Cost$/task or $/question budget±10%
EvidenceLogs/artifacts to SIEM≤ 60–120 s
ChangeUnapproved prod changes= 0

When a guardrail trips, SOAR opens a case and runs mitigations (degrade capability, require human approval, roll back, rotate keys, throttle or pause routes), attaching artifacts. → /siem-soar


✅ Acceptance Tests & Artifacts (we keep the receipts)

  • Simulation: dry-run transcripts; tool call diffs; policy-gate outcomes; refusal ledger.
  • Quality: eval sets & scores (precision/recall, hallucination tests, cost); citation sets for RAG.
  • Execution: idempotency proof (same input → same effect), DLQ/replay logs, compensations executed.
  • Security: vault/KMS rotations, PAM session recordings, ZTNA admits, WAF/Bot events.
  • Compliance: evidence packs (SOC2/ISO, HIPAA/PCI/NIST, FedRAMP adjacency), consent/retention logs.
  • Ops: SLO dashboards, cost reports, supplier escalations; monthly QBR summaries.

🛠️ Implementation Blueprint (no-surprise rollout)

1) Map decisions & tasks — pick lanes with clear ROI (e.g., password reset, invoice triage, WAF block, ticket enrichment, quote assembly).
2) Wire knowledge — curate sources; tokenize & label; build vector index with pre-filters; enforce cite-or-refuse. → /vector-databases
3) Define tools & policies — allow-listed functions with schemas; approval matrices; rate/quotas; regions & data classes.
4) Stand up pipelines — events/APIs with contracts, idempotency keys, DLQs & replay; traces with correlation IDs. → /application-integration
5) Secure the edges — ZTNA for private actions, SASE for web, PAM JIT for admin, vault + KMS/HSM; WAF for public APIs.
6) Simulate — dry-run flows; red-team prompts & tool misuse; capture refusal/approval behavior; tune thresholds.
7) Pilot & rings — advisory → supervised automation → partial → full; rollback paths; change control in CI.
8) Operate — SLO/cost dashboards; retraining cadence; playbook backlog; quarterly audits with export packs in the Knowledge Hub.


🧩 Industry Playbook Examples

  • Healthcare: claim coding assist; denial reason drafts; HIPAA-safe summarization; imaging worklist triage. → /hipaa
  • Finance: fraud triage; KYC/AML assist; PCI-safe payment flows; SOC2/ISO evidence assembly. → /pci-dss/soc2
  • Public Sector: records summarization; request triage; NG911 notes; NIST/FedRAMP overlays. → /nist/fedramp
  • Manufacturing/Energy: maintenance planning; alarm dedupe; OT change requests; safety checklists; IEC/NERC overlays. → /industry-4-0-in-automation/energy-and-utilities
  • Retail/Logistics: ETA predictions; slotting; returns triage; CCaaS post-call actions with PCI redaction. → /logistics/ccaas

📝 AI Automation Intake (copy–paste & fill)

  • Use-cases & KPIs (e.g., % auto-handled, MTTR, AHT, MAPE, precision/recall, $/task)
  • Systems to integrate (ITSM/IAM/EDR/WAF/CRM/ERP/CCaaS/Cloud/Git/CI/CD)
  • Knowledge sources (runbooks, KBs, policies, product docs) + sensitivity labels & residency
  • Action boundaries (allowed tools, approval matrices, dollar/risk thresholds)
  • Security posture (IdP/SSO/MFA, PAM, vault/KMS, ZTNA/WAF/DLP, email auth)
  • Compliance (SOC2/ISO/NIST/HIPAA/PCI/FedRAMP), BAAs/DPAs needed
  • Operations (managed vs co-managed, change windows, reporting cadence)
  • Budget & timeline (ROM vs build-ready), success criteria (SLOs & ROI)

We’ll return a design-to-operate plan with architecture, supplier options, SLO-mapped pricing, compliance overlays, and an evidence plan you can reuse in audits and QBRs.
Or jump straight to /customized-quotes.


📞 Automate Work That Matters—Safely, Quickly, and With Proof

From tickets and finance ops to security, DevOps, and OT, we’ll put AI to work with guardrails—and keep the receipts.