Meet Your New Digital Workforce: Building Intelligent AI Agents with rpa.do

Business process automation promises a world of efficiency, where repetitive tasks vanish and your team can focus on high-value work. Yet, for many, the reality of traditional Robotic Process Automation (RPA) falls short. It’s a world of brittle UI bots, constant maintenance, and workflows that break with the slightest interface change.

What if you could treat automation like modern software? What if you could define, version, and deploy intelligent robots with the same reliability and scalability you expect from your core applications?

Welcome to rpa.do, where Robotic Process Automation is finally executed as code. It's time to go beyond brittle bots and build a truly resilient digital workforce.

The Fragility of Traditional RPA

Traditional RPA tools often rely on "screen scraping"—a technique where a bot mimics human clicks and keystrokes by watching the user interface. While impressive in a demo, this approach is fundamentally fragile.

• A UI update breaks your bot.
• A button moves, and your workflow fails.
• A system runs slower than usual, and timeouts cause cascading errors.

The result is a high-maintenance environment where developers spend more time fixing broken automations than building new ones. This isn't scalable innovation; it's a technical debt nightmare.

A New Paradigm: Business-as-Code

rpa.do introduces a developer-first, "Business-as-Code" philosophy. Instead of wrestling with complex visual designers, you use a simple, powerful API to define your automations.

This changes everything:

• Reliability: By interacting with systems via stable APIs instead of fragile UIs, your automations become robust and less prone to failure.
• Version Control: Your automation logic lives in code. You can use Git to track changes, collaborate with your team, and roll back to previous versions.
• Scalability & Maintainability: Code is transparent, easy to debug, and simple to refactor. As your business needs evolve, your automations can evolve with them.

It's automation built with the best practices of modern software development.

Intelligent Automation via API: See it in Action

With rpa.do, you don't drag-and-drop boxes; you write clear, concise code to deploy an intelligent agent.

Consider this example of an agent designed to process invoices from an email inbox and create bills in QuickBooks:

import { Agent } from '@do/rpa';

// Create an RPA agent to handle invoice processing
const invoiceAgent = new Agent('invoice-processor-agent');

// Define and run the automation workflow via a simple API call
async function runInvoiceProcessing() {
  const result = await invoiceAgent.run({
    workflow: 'process_new_invoices',
    source: {
      type: 'email_inbox',
      id: 'invoices@company.com'
    },
    destination: {
      type: 'quickbooks_api',
      action: 'create_bill'
    }
  });

  console.log(`Automation complete. ${result.processed} invoices processed.`);
}

runInvoiceProcessing();

As you can see, the entire workflow is defined in a simple, readable object. The agent handles the complex orchestration, including authenticating with both the email server and the QuickBooks API, processing the data, and providing a clear result.

More Than a Bot: AI-Native Agents

The true power of rpa.do lies in its intelligent, AI-native agents. These aren't just simple script runners. They are designed to be enhanced with large language models (LLMs).

This means your agents can:

• Understand Unstructured Data: Extract key information from PDFs, emails, and images without a predefined template.
• Make Decisions: Handle variations and exceptions gracefully based on the context of the data.
• Learn and Adapt: Improve their performance over time as they process more information.

This is the leap from simple, rules-based automation to truly intelligent workflow automation that can tackle complex, real-world business challenges.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What is rpa.do?

rpa.do is an AI-powered platform for executing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) as code. Instead of using complex visual designers, you use simple APIs and SDKs to build, deploy, and manage resilient software agents that automate your business processes.

How does this differ from traditional RPA tools?

Traditional RPA relies on fragile screen scraping and UI interactions. rpa.do uses a robust, API-first 'Business-as-Code' approach. This makes your automations more reliable, scalable, and easier to maintain and version control, just like modern software.

What kinds of tasks can I automate with rpa.do?

You can automate a vast range of digital tasks, including invoice and order processing, data entry, report generation, system integrations, data migration, and customer service workflows. If a process is rules-based and repetitive, it can be automated with an rpa.do agent.

Are the RPA agents intelligent?

Yes. Our agents are AI-native, meaning they can be enhanced with large language models (LLMs) to understand unstructured data, make decisions, and handle exceptions gracefully, far beyond the capabilities of traditional bots.

How are credentials and secrets managed?

The .do platform includes a secure, built-in vault for storing API keys, passwords, and other sensitive credentials. Your agents can securely access the secrets they need at runtime without exposing them in your code.

Build Your Digital Workforce Today

Stop fighting with fragile bots and start building a resilient, intelligent digital workforce. By treating automation as code, rpa.do empowers developers to build the robust, scalable solutions that modern businesses demand.

Ready to transform your complex workflows into simple, reliable code? Explore the future of automation at rpa.do.