Question

A finance team needs to automate a recurring task: every invoice email is first parsed to extract line items, then the totals are validated against a rules table, and finally a summary is written to a database. The sequence of steps never changes, and the team wants the automation to be predictable, easy to debug, and low-cost. Which approach best fits this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Build a fixed workflow with predefined steps (parse, validate, write) chained in a set order.

Answer

Deploy an autonomous agent that decides at runtime which steps to take and when to stop.

Answer

Use an orchestrator-worker agent that dynamically spawns subtasks for each invoice.

Answer

Give the model a broad set of tools and let it plan the entire process from scratch each run.