Bijection for Productivity
Write the answer down once. Then stop being asked.
Turn the questions and requests that bounce between teams into shared definitions and routed approvals.
- Purchase requests
- Vendor onboarding
- Weekly figures
- Tool requests
- Travel approval
- Team agents
The same questions reach operations every week: what did we spend with this vendor, who approves this purchase, where is this request. The answers exist, spread across Slack threads, spreadsheets and people’s memory.
Bijection writes the answer down once, as a definition anyone can query, and turns cross-team requests into workflows whose state everyone can see. Each team’s agent gets its own tools and its own limits.
Purchase requests
Starts: Someone asks for a purchase in Slack
- Check the budget and existing spend with the vendor.
- Requests above the threshold wait for a second approver.
- The decision is posted back in the thread.
Vendor onboarding
Starts: A new vendor is approved
- Collect the contract, tax forms and bank details.
- Each step waits for its owner and resumes when it lands.
- The vendor becomes payable once every step is done.
Weekly figures
Starts: Every Thursday
- Run the shared definition over the current data.
- Post the figure with a link to the rows behind it.
- Questions about it go to the definition’s owner.
Tool requests
Starts: Someone asks for a tool in Slack
- Check their team and the licences already assigned.
- The tool owner approves.
- The licence is assigned and recorded.
Travel approval
Starts: Someone submits a trip
- Check it against the travel policy.
- Trips outside policy wait for a manager.
- The decision is posted back to the requester.
Team agents
Starts: A team sets up an agent
- Choose the tools and data it may use.
- Set what it may change on its own.
- Anything beyond that waits for a person.