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How Malleable compares

Malleable vs. building it yourself

Engineers, a consultant or a vibe-coding tool can all build software around your process. The difference shows up later, when the process changes.

The main difference

Who decides what happens next?

Say a supplier emails an invoice, and the price is higher than on the purchase order. Here's what happens next in each case.

Custom software

Engineers, a consultant or a vibe-coding tool writes software around your process.

With that invoice

Engineers write code for each check, and it does exactly what it was written to do. When the controller adds a rule, it waits on a ticket for whoever maintains the code.

Malleable

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.

With that invoice

Matching the invoice to the purchase order runs the same way every time. The AI decides whether the new price looks like a mistake, using your price list. Anything over a set amount goes to the controller, as a form with the invoice, the purchase order and a recommendation.

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How they compare

Each row is something you can check in a demo, or in the other tool's docs.

Fixed steps and AI judgment
Building it yourself
Whatever the builders write into the code.
Malleable
An AI agent runs the whole operation and works out cases nobody planned for. Your team locks the steps that must run the same way every time.
Bringing in a person
Building it yourself
The builders design each approval screen.
Malleable
Malleable sends them a short form with the context, then waits for their answer.
Changing it
Building it yourself
A request to whoever maintains the code.
Malleable
Your team says what changed, in plain English. No builder needed.

When to choose Malleable

  • The work crosses teams and waits on people, inside or outside your company.
  • The same work comes up again and again, and parts of it need judgment.
  • The people who run it need to change it themselves.
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