Why Alembic
Why hand DISTLR the job.
Anyone who has stayed late assembling a packet somebody else will sign.
The reading was never the hard part. Getting every case to a decision is.
The problem
It was going to be quick
The request is small and the answer is buried. Not hidden — buried, across a stack of documents and emails that each half-answer it. That is the shape of most business busywork, and it is why "just have a quick look" turns into an evening.
The Quick One — 50 seconds.
The first dead end
Ask a general assistant
It answers immediately, in confident prose, and some of the time it is right. The problem is that you cannot tell which time this is without going back to the document — which was the work you were trying to avoid.
An answer you have to re-derive is not an answer. It is a draft you now have to check.
You're Absolutely Right! — 48 seconds.
The second dead end
Buy another platform
These tools work. The catch is who does the work of making them work: you define the taxonomy, write the rules, map the fields, answer the questions, and clear the queue — and at the end of it you are still the one doing the job, now with a counter on it.
Setup Takes Minutes! — 26 seconds.
What changes
Give DISTLR the job instead.
Say what you need in a sentence. DISTLR sets the job up, keeps a card for every case, reads what arrives, checks it against your rules, and brings you only the calls that are yours. What DISTLR did is on the card.
The consequential calls stay exactly where they are. What changes is how much back-and-forth and reconciling has to happen before anyone can make one.
Give DISTLR their first job.
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