Most automation apps sell you a platform. Per-workflow apps sell you an outcome: your invoice follow-ups handle themselves. For busy teams, that framing wins. - The workflow library: good ones ship prebuilt automations for common jobs. Blank canvas means you bought a platform wearing a workflow label. - The AI quality: summarizing a call into action items is AI. Copying a form field into a spreadsheet is not. Ask what the model does in each step. - Human checkpoints: the best pause for approval at the right moments, and mobile approvals mean the pauses do not stall. - Pricing: per-workflow is cheaper at five workflows, wildly more expensive at fifty. Count your workflows before comparing plans. Automate the most painful one first. Compare AI tools by workflow with real pricing tiers, and PrivateLLM deploy sets up a private LLM on AWS for $50 plus usage when the workflows must run on your own infrastructure.