Open-ended agents
You give an AI agent instructions and tools. It works out the steps itself, every run.
Most tools make you choose between an open-ended AI agent and a fixed automation flow. Malleable brings the best of both. The AI follows the steps your team set and uses judgment only where you allow it. When the work changes, your team changes the steps in plain English.
You give an AI agent instructions and tools. It works out the steps itself, every run.
A builder draws every path ahead of time. AI can fill in a step, but the drawn paths decide what happens next.
Engineers, a consultant or a vibe-coding tool writes software around your process.
Your team says which steps always run the same way and where the AI can use judgment. One agent follows those steps for the whole run.
Each step has its own limits: what it has to get done, which apps it can use, and whether the AI can use judgment there.
A supplier emails an invoice, and the price is higher than on the purchase order.
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