Live webinar · Wednesday, October 14
Process Discovery Is Dead.
Let AI learn the job instead.
You wouldn’t make a new hire wait six months while you mapped every corner of the business. So why are you doing it to your AI?
Live · Wednesday, October 14, 2026 · 10:00 AM PT · 45 minutes
Your AI is still standing at the door
It can read invoices. Parse emails. Handle messy, real-world work that would break an old-school bot in seconds.
And yet, before it’s allowed to touch anything, most enterprises send it to the back of a very long line: workshops, interviews, event logs, spaghetti diagrams, and months of “is this really what we do?”
By the time the map is done, the business has moved on. And the AI? Still waiting.
Onboard AI like you onboard people
A great new hire doesn’t need a map of every edge case. They need three things:
- 01A goal
What does done look like?
- 02Access
The systems and data to do the work.
- 03Someone to ask
When they’re not sure, they stop and ask. They don’t make it up.
AI can work the same way. When it hits something it can’t justify, it pauses and asks a person. That answer becomes a rule, written in plain English with the reason attached, approved by a human before it ever runs on its own.
Nobody answers the same question twice.
A euro invoice walks into a dollar PO
No process map saw it coming. So the AI stops and asks the AP lead which exchange rate to use.
Her answer takes ten seconds: the treasury rate on the invoice date, because policy locks it at arrival. That becomes a rule. She approves it. The next euro invoice sails through, and the reasoning is on record for every auditor, every new teammate, and every future run.
Convert a foreign-currency invoice
- If the invoice currency is different from the PO currency, use the treasury rate on the invoice date.
- Why: policy locks the exchange rate when the invoice arrives.
- Approved by the AP lead before it runs on its own.
Illustrative example.
That’s discovery and automation happening at the same time.
In 45 minutes, you’ll walk away knowing
- Why upfront process discovery existed in the first place, and why today’s AI doesn’t need it
- How AI can know exactly when it’s out of its depth, so it asks instead of improvising
- How to capture the why behind every decision, so tribal knowledge stops walking out the door
- Why the exceptions AI surfaces in its first months are your best process redesign backlog
- How to test this side by side against a discovery-first approach, on your own processes
Your speaker
“No enterprise should need a team of people to learn its business before its AI can operate inside it.”
This one’s for you if…
- …you lead finance, operations, or shared services and you’re tired of AI projects that never leave the planning phase.
- …you run an automation CoE and your backlog is full of processes “waiting on discovery.”
- …you’ve ever sat through a process map review and thought, there has to be a faster way.
Read ahead
This session builds on our position paper, Process Mining Is Dead, and on our explainer, Is Process Mining Dead? What AI Changes About Discovery. Skim either one first, or bring your questions live. New to the term itself? Our guide to process discovery covers how it is traditionally done.
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AI is at your door. Let it in.
October 14 · 10:00 AM PT · Live and online
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