In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are drowning in a sea of manual tasks. From processing new customer sign-ups to generating weekly reports, these repetitive, multi-step processes consume valuable time and resources, stifling innovation and slowing growth. While traditional automation has offered some relief, it often creates brittle, rule-based systems that require constant human oversight.
A new paradigm is emerging, one that moves beyond simple if-this-then-that logic to something far more powerful: agentic AI. This is the future of business process automation, where we don't just automate tasks—we deploy autonomous agents to execute entire business functions as a service. This is the world of the autonomous digital worker.
Traditional automation tools are great for connecting two applications or triggering a simple action. But what happens when a process involves multiple steps, requires context, and unfolds over hours or days? These systems often fall short. They are reactive, not proactive. They follow a script, but they can't reason, adapt, or manage complexity on their own.
This is where the need for a true digital worker becomes clear. You don't want a fragile chain of webhooks; you want a reliable teammate who you can assign a high-level goal and trust to see it through to completion.
Enter Ivy, your autonomous digital worker from .do. Ivy is not another chatbot or a simple automation script. It is an autonomous agent designed to be a fully integrated member of your team—a reliable, programmable worker that executes complex, long-running business processes in the background.
With Ivy, you shift your thinking from building workflows to deploying workers. You can configure and deploy an Ivy agent to perform a specific business function, delivering its work as a reliable software service. It’s not just automation; it’s delegation.
The power of Ivy lies in its simplicity and developer-first approach. You manage your digital workers through a straightforward API and SDK, allowing you to programmatically assign tasks and build sophisticated agentic workflows directly into your applications.
Here’s a glimpse at how easy it is to deploy and assign work to your first digital teammate using TypeScript:
import { ivy } from '@do/sdk';
// Create a new instance of your digital worker
const myAgent = ivy.create('ivy-01', {
persona: 'Onboarding Specialist'
});
// Assign a complex, long-running task
const job = await myAgent.assign({
task: 'Process all new user signups from the past 24 hours.',
instructions: [
'Validate email addresses using clearbit.do',
'Create a personalized welcome document using content.do',
'Send a welcome email via courier.do'
]
});
console.log(`Job ${job.id} started. Ivy is on it.`);
Let's break down what's happening here:
Once assigned, Ivy gets to work autonomously. The .do platform handles all the underlying infrastructure, state management, and reliability, ensuring the job gets done. You just fired off a single API call, and now a complex business process is being handled for you. This is Service-as-Software.
The potential applications for an autonomous digital worker are vast. Ivy excels at any task that is process-oriented, data-intensive, and requires interaction with other digital tools.
Here are just a few examples of what an autonomous agent can handle:
The shift to agentic AI is more than a technological upgrade; it's a fundamental change in how we build and scale businesses. By treating automation as a workforce of digital workers, we can move faster, reduce human error, and free up our teams to focus on strategy and creativity.
Stop wrestling with brittle automation scripts and start deploying autonomous teammates. The era of the agentic workforce is here, and it’s more accessible than ever.
Ready to deploy your first digital worker? Explore ivy.do today and transform your most complex business processes into reliable, autonomous services.