Before any model touches a document, the team maps the current workflow end to end. For a 201-500 person fintech firm handling order and shipment status updates, this means identifying every touchpoint where a human reads a PDF, CSV, or email attachment, extracts an order ID or tracking number, and types it into the CRM or ERP. The audit also captures the customer-facing side: how many order status queries arrive per day, what channels they come through (email, chat, phone), and what the current first-response time is. The output is a one-page process map with cycle time and error rate baselines. This map becomes the acceptance criteria for the pilot. Without it, the 14-day window has no measurable target.<\/em><\/p>\n The extraction pipeline ingests documents from Google Drive and Gmail. For a fintech operations team, the typical inputs are order confirmations, shipment manifests, and carrier tracking updates. The pipeline uses OCR or structured parsing to pull out order IDs, tracking numbers, and status codes, then applies a validation rule set to flag anomalies. The Anthropic Claude API handles the classification step: it reads the extracted text and assigns a status category (e.g., \u201cshipped,\u201d \u201cin transit,\u201d \u201cdelivered\u201d). The rule set is deterministic; the model only classifies. This keeps the extraction layer auditable and the error rate measurable.<\/em><\/p>\n The assistant layer uses the Anthropic Claude API to generate natural-language responses to customer queries about order and shipment status. It pulls data from the CRM or ERP via API, formats the response, and sends it through the existing helpdesk or email channel. The system is configured to handle 24\/7 queries, but it does not process payments, issue refunds, or modify contract terms. Any query that touches money or a contract routes to a human agent. The assistant is a lookup and response tool, not a transaction processor. This boundary is hard-coded into the prompt and the escalation logic.<\/em><\/p>\n The assistant and extraction pipeline write to and read from the existing CRM, ERP, and helpdesk through their native APIs. No new infrastructure is required. For a fintech firm using Google Workspace, the integration points are Gmail (for inbound queries and document attachments), Google Drive (for document storage), and the CRM or ERP API (for order and shipment data). The dedicated AI team handles all wiring: OAuth tokens, API rate limits, and error handling. The system plugs into what the firm already runs. It does not replace the CRM, ERP, or helpdesk. It adds an AI layer on top.<\/em><\/p>\n Days 9-11 of the pilot run the system in parallel with the existing manual process. The team feeds live order and shipment documents through the extraction pipeline and compares the output against the human-entered data. The assistant handles live customer queries and the team measures first-response time and accuracy. The human-in-the-loop approver reviews every output that touches money, health data, or a contract. The goal is not to prove the system works in a vacuum. The goal is to measure the delta: cycle time reduction, error rate change, and first-response improvement against the baseline captured in step 1.<\/em><\/p>\n Days 12-14 are for fixing edge cases, tuning the classification rules, and writing the operating runbook. The runbook documents: how to monitor the extraction pipeline, how to escalate assistant queries to a human, how to update the validation rule set, and how to measure the before\/after metrics. The dedicated AI team hands over the runbook and the measured baseline. The pilot is a one-time deliverable. The runbook is what keeps the system running after the team leaves. 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Build the document extraction pipeline<\/h2>\n
3. Configure the customer-facing assistant<\/h2>\n
4. Wire the integration to Google Workspace and the CRM<\/h2>\n
5. Run parallel tests against live data<\/h2>\n
6. Validate, fix edge cases, and hand over the runbook<\/h2>\n