Why a dedicated agent
The high-value stage nobody wants to staff.
In every pipeline-heavy services firm we've worked with, there is one stage where operator time collapses. It's always the same shape: a client has signed the contract, the case data has to be verified against a system of record, and forms have to be prepared accurately before anything is filed upstream. Senior operators do this badly because they're bored; juniors do it badly because they don't know the edge cases.
The framework puts a named agent on that stage. It runs daily, it uses the same source-of-truth documents a human would, and it surfaces every discrepancy it finds rather than papering over them. The output is a submission package sitting on the operator's desk — with a note explaining every choice.
Design principle — The agent never hides uncertainty. If the intake record says "X" and the source document says "not X," the agent flags it in notes — it does not pick. A human decides.