Recording a Job

What “Recording a Job” Means

One of your people does one of their normal jobs, once, while a free screen recorder watches. That video is the only thing we need from you. There is nothing to write down, nothing to fill in, and no diagram to draw.

The Recorder

A Screen Recorder, and Nothing to Configure.

It is a small free program that you download from your ProcessPlan account. Start it, work the way you always work, talk through what you are doing, and stop it when the job is finished.

If the job takes thirty minutes and touches nine different programs and two websites, that's fine.

  • Any program or website on the screen, including the ones with no API
  • Narrating as you go is the only thing you add to the work
  • Long jobs are fine, and there is no cap on how many you record
  • Several people can record their own version of the same job, and the versions merge into one diagram
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After You Stop

What Comes Back, and How Soon

You do the first step. The next three steps happen automatically.

1

It Uploads Itself

Stop the recorder and the video goes to your account by itself. Nothing to attach, compress, or send.

2

AI Reads the Job

AI works out the steps you took, the decisions you made, who you handed off to, and the exceptions you ran into along the way.

3

You Get the Map

A visual diagram of the job arrives in minutes, free and yours to keep, whether or not you ever automate anything.

Why a Video

Nobody Writes Down Their Own Job Accurately

The parts of a job that are hardest to describe are the parts someone stopped noticing years ago. The tab they glance at before approving. The customer type that quietly takes the other route. The one vendor whose invoices never match.

Those details decide whether the work comes out right, and they never make it onto a form, because nobody remembers to put them there. A recording catches them anyway, since your person does them without thinking about them.

That is why the input is a video of real work instead of a questionnaire about it. You are not describing the job. You are just doing it.

What It Is Worth Later

One Capture, Two Things You Can Use

A process your business can run

The diagram is real documentation, good for training, onboarding, and the audit nobody enjoys. ProcessPlan can also run it as live work, handing every step to the right person and tracking each handoff, approval, and deadline.

See how ProcessPlan runs a process

An AI Employee that does the job for you

When you decide you want the job off your team's hands, that same video is what the AI Employee learns from. Our team fine-tunes it against your real systems so it handles the odd cases on its own. You are never asked to set anything up.

See what AI Employees do

Straight Answers

The Questions People Actually Ask

Whoever does the job today. They need no training and no background in ProcessPlan. They do their work and say out loud what they are doing, which is the same thing they would do if they were showing a new hire over their shoulder.
As long as the job takes, because doing the job is all you are doing. No extra time goes on top for writing it up, and the diagram comes back minutes after you stop.
Have each of them capture their own version. The versions are woven into a single diagram covering every path, so the differences show up as branches you can look at and decide about, rather than as an argument in a meeting.
Then there is nothing to capture, so describe it instead and AI builds the process from your description. See how that works.
Into your own ProcessPlan account. How we handle your data is set out in our Privacy Policy and our Data Processing Agreement.
No. The recording tool and the diagrams it produces are free, with no limits, no credit card, and no obligation to go any further. What an AI Employee costs once you want one is on the pricing page, worked out from your own capture before you commit to anything.
Narrate as you go and keep everything on one screen. Those two habits carry most of the quality. Our recording guidelines cover the rest.

Try It on a Job You Already Do

Sign up, capture one job the way you normally do it, and AI maps it in minutes. You will see exactly what a recording gives you before you decide anything else.