Overview

AOPs are to AI Colleagues what SOPs are to humans — they ground your AI Colleague in your company's specific business processes. Traditionally, building an AOP required manually filling out forms and adding step-by-step instructions. The AOP Creator simplifies this by allowing you to describe the process you want to automate in natural language, and AI will generate a structured AOP for you.

How to Use the AOP Creator

1. Navigate to your AI Colleague's page in the AI Colleagues Studio.
2. Click Create new AOP.
3. In the text area under Describe the AOP you want to build, describe your business process. You can include: The steps involved in the process, decision points and branching logic, conditions or rules that should be followed and any exceptions or escalation paths.

4. Click Generate AOP.
5. Once the AOP is generated, you will be taken to the AOP editor page where you can review the AOP details and AOP Instructions.

6. Click on Create to begin the validation check that runs automatically and displays a banner at the top of the page indicating whether action is required before publishing. The validation results are shown on the left panel and are divided into two categories:

Errors

Errors are issues that must be resolved before you can publish the AOP. A common example is placeholder skills — the AI may reference skills in the generated steps that do not yet exist in your workspace. For instance, you may see a message like:

"Placeholder skills exist in the AOP. The following skills are marked as unavailable and need to be created: @Check Workday New Hires (Step 1), @Create Azure AD User (Step 4)..."

These require a manual fix. You need to either create the missing skills in the Skills section or replace the placeholder references with existing skills. You can also click the Fix issues button to let AI attempt to auto-fix all errors.

Warnings

Warnings are optional improvements that can enhance your AOP's performance but are not required for publishing. Examples include suggestions to optimize step logic, improve descriptions, or restructure decision flows. You can safely publish an AOP with unresolved warnings.

7. Use the Improve AOP button in the top bar to let AI refine the generated AOP further.

8. Once all errors are resolved, you can click Create AOP to activate the AOP, or Save as draft to continue editing later.