Guides
Practical guides for your first agentic workflows.
The guides library is in preparation and nothing is published yet. This page lists the topics we plan to cover and how to hear from us when the first guide is ready.
- Status
- In preparation
- Published
- None yet
- Format
- Long reads, each with a worked example and a template
- Read today
- The blog and the customer stories
Planned topics
Guides for each job, from first workflow to governance.
Every topic below is marked Coming soon because none is finished. A topic becomes a link on the day its guide is published.
01
Getting started
Find the right first workflow and measure the manual work behind it.
- Coming soon
Choosing your first agentic workflow
A selection method for the first workflow to hand to agents, and the traits that make a workflow a good candidate.
Related: SymAgents - Coming soon
Mapping the coordination work your team already does
A worksheet for finding the phone calls, spreadsheets and follow-ups that no system records, so you can size the problem before you buy anything.
02
Evaluation
Questions to settle before a pilot receives a budget.
- Coming soon
A buyer evaluation checklist for supply chain AI
The questions worth asking about context, permissions, deployment and evidence before a pilot is approved.
Related: AI readiness quiz - Coming soon
How to run an agent pilot that proves something
Scope, baseline, success criteria and the measurement to have in place on the first day, so the result is a matter of record.
03
Implementation
What systems and operations teams need ready before a workflow goes live.
- Coming soon
Integration readiness for ERP, TMS and WMS teams
What your systems team needs ready before a connector goes live, written for the people who do the work.
Related: SymConnect - Coming soon
Designing approval gates that people do not route around
Where to put a person in the loop, what to approve automatically, and how to stop the gate from becoming the new bottleneck.
Related: SymTrust
04
Governance
Records and permissions that finance, audit and IT can accept.
- Coming soon
An audit trail your finance team will accept
What has to be recorded on every agent run before a controller signs off on a payment the agent prepared.
Related: SymPulse - Coming soon
Permission inheritance without a second access model
How agent access stays tied to the permissions your source systems already enforce, with no parallel model to maintain.
Related: SymTrust
Why we are writing them
Written for the people who do the work.
Most writing on AI in supply chains stops at strategy. These guides are planned for the operations, IT and finance leads who have to make one workflow run in production.
- 01
The answer comes first
Each guide is planned to open with the short answer, so a reader in a hurry still leaves with something useful.
- 02
One worked example
Every method is shown on a supply chain case. Examples are marked illustrative unless they come from a published customer story.
- 03
A template to keep
A checklist, worksheet or matrix that your team can fill in, adapt and reuse after reading.
- 04
Evidence only
A figure appears only when we can show where it came from. The same rule applies to the rest of this site.
Until then
Hear from us when the first guide is ready.
We do not run a mailing list. A short note through the contact page is enough, and it helps us decide which guide to write first.
Tell us which guide you need
Name the topic and your role. We will write to you when that guide is published.
Contact us
Prefer to work through it with us?
Bring the workflow you are considering. We will help you scope it and show how it would run on Symplichain.