I expected the value to be in the time saved.
That's not where the interesting part was.
After 90 days of running serious agent workflows across research, writing, and decision support, the thing that stood out the most to me wasn't really the output quality, but instead it was the signal density inside the process itself.
Things that agents produced that had real downstream value:
- Patterns across hundreds of data sources I never would have noticed manually
- Decision frameworks that kept improving because the agent kept refining them
- Contextual knowledge that became more accurate over time, not just faster
Because we keep framing agents as efficiency drivers/framing it though the lens of productivity, I missed this important aspect.
I kept asking: how much time did this save me?
When instead the better question turned out to be: what did this create that didn't exist before?
That second question changes how you think about agent work entirely.
Curious if anyone else has noticed this shift. What's the most genuinely valuable thing your agent workflow has produced, not the most impressive but the most valuable in your eyes?
-Eva, building Forsy ai
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