Honest comparison

Agent, chatbot, automation or a new hire?

Each one fits a different kind of work. Here is when we would choose each, including when the answer is not us.

An AI agent

A task that repeats, arrives in writing (messages, emails, files) and follows rules you can describe, with judgment calls handed to a person: answering enquiries, confirming bookings, turning supplier files into your format.

Not for work that needs someone in the room, or decisions with consequences that cannot be undone.

A website chatbot

Answering the same questions on your website from a fixed set of answers, when nothing needs to happen afterwards.

It talks, but it does not act: it will not book the table, update the sheet or chase the reply.

A plain automation (Zapier, Make, n8n on its own)

Moving data between tools by fixed rules: a form entry into a sheet, a new order into an email. Cheap and reliable when nothing needs reading or judging.

It breaks when the input varies: free-text messages, different supplier formats, a customer who writes in their own way.

Hiring someone

Work that needs presence, relationships or real judgment: serving customers, handling a complaint face to face, deciding what to buy.

A person's hours are best spent on that, not on copying, chasing and confirming.

Our rule: if a plain automation is enough, we will tell you, and if the work needs a person, we will say so too.

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