Why eClips

We run on Claude.
You don't build on it.

eClips does not compete with Claude, LangChain, or Google's Gemini. We run on top of them. You get all of their intelligence, packaged as 80+ business-ready agents your operations team can use today — without writing a line of code.

The honest positioning

“eClips doesn't compete with Claude. We run on Claude. You get all of Claude's intelligence, packaged as business-ready agents your team can use today.”

The honest comparison

Building vs. buying.

This is what the engineering work actually looks like when you build on the raw APIs versus deploying eClips.

CapabilityBuilding with Claude / LangChain / GoogleeClips
Setup time
Weeks of engineering
Minutes
Domain agents
Build from scratch
80+ pre-built
ERP integrations
Build from scratch
25 native connectors
Memory & learning
Build from scratch
Built-in Context Book
Graduated autonomy
Not possible
Native — Trust levels 1–5
Visual workflow builder
Build graph engine, canvas UI, and run orchestration
Drag-and-drop canvas, conditional branching, live SSE streaming
Browser automation
Implement Playwright wrapper + safety model
eClips Reach, built-in
Human approval gates
Build UI + approval workflow from scratch
Built-in, Slack + dashboard
Audit logging
Roll your own
Immutable, per-action log
Multi-tenant isolation
Build RLS, API key rotation, org scoping
Enforced at database layer
Responsible AI controls
Prompt engineering only
Constitution block + orchestrator gates
Support
Anthropic / LangChain docs
Human CSM + AI + changelog
Time to first automation
4–12 weeks (engineering-dependent)
Same day
80+
Pre-built agent types
25
Native ERP connectors
18 mo
Engineering invested
Same day
Time to first automation

The architecture

Claude reasons.
eClips operates.

Claude (via Anthropic API) provides the reasoning engine: reading documents, understanding context, making classification decisions, generating structured outputs. eClips provides the operating layer: ingesting documents from any channel, routing based on your rules, writing back to your ERP, firing the right approval gates, and maintaining the audit trail.

You get Claude-quality reasoning on every document — with the infrastructure, compliance controls, and operational tooling that make it safe to run in production.

How Workforce works
architecture
// Your documents arrive
email / API / scan / webhook
// eClips ingestion layer
normalise → chunk → embed
// Claude reasons here
classify + extract + decide
claude-sonnet-4-6 via Anthropic API
// eClips operates here
route → gate → write → audit
// Your ERP receives the result
Odoo / BC / SAP / NetSuite

Common objections

The hard questions.

We already have engineers. Why not build it ourselves?

You can. The question is opportunity cost. Every week your engineers spend building extraction pipelines, approval UIs, circuit breakers, and multi-tenant RLS is a week they are not working on your core product. We have already built — and production-hardened — all of it. Use us for the commodity layer; use your engineers for the competitive layer.

We have a direct Claude API contract. Does eClips add cost?

eClips adds a thin orchestration and infrastructure layer on top of whatever model you use. The inference cost is pass-through. Our pricing is per agent run, not per token — which means your cost is predictable regardless of document length or agent chain depth.

What about LangChain / LangGraph?

LangChain is a framework; eClips is a product. Frameworks are excellent for researchers and AI engineers who want maximum flexibility. eClips is for operations teams who want agents working on their documents today, not after a 3-month implementation project. If you want to build custom chains, LangChain is great. If you want document operations running this week, that's what eClips is for.

What if we want to customise deeply?

Every piece of eClips is configurable: custom agent types, custom outcome contracts, custom routing rules, custom Context Book content, custom SQL RPC logic. Enterprise customers get full access to our solutions team for custom work. You are not locked into our templates — the templates are just where you start.

Is this just a wrapper around Claude?

No. Claude provides the reasoning engine. eClips provides the full operational layer: document ingestion, multi-format extraction, confidence scoring, routing rules, approval gates, ERP write-back, audit logging, multi-tenant isolation, graduated autonomy, and browser automation. You could not replicate this in a weekend with the Claude API — it took us 18 months.

Ready to see it on your documents?

Bring your actual invoices, POs, or contracts. We will run them through the extraction engine live during the demo — you see real accuracy numbers, not slide claims.

Ready when you are

Your Business,
On Autopilot.

From project management to quality systems to security — we build intelligent platforms that simulate, automate, and transform how your operations run.

30 minutes · No pitch deck · Live product walkthrough