A Power Automate alternative: automation by AI agents
To connect Teams, SharePoint and Outlook, Power Automate does the job. It is the natural extension of Microsoft 365, and the trouble starts elsewhere. Reading a PDF invoice or making a business process reliable end to end is where flows fall short. ERHA takes over with AI agents.
What Power Automate does very well
A form feeding a SharePoint list, a Teams alert on an incoming email, an approval moving along. For these internal flows over already-structured data, the tool is effective, and it is often already included in your licences. If your need stops there, keep it.
Why look for an alternative
The licensing maze
Per user, per flow, desktop RPA and premium connectors as paid extras. Once you leave the Microsoft 365 base, anticipating the real cost becomes an expert exercise.
Documents stay opaque
A flow routes data that is already structured; it reads nothing. Understanding a PDF invoice or report means adding AI Builder, with its credits and its limits.
Brittle complex flows
Scenarios pile up, get duplicated, drift apart. A screen change breaks desktop RPA. And nobody dares touch the flow that runs.
Edge cases
A flow follows its branch. The unexpected case errors out or ends up handled by hand, with no interpretation, no re-checking, no organised validation.
What changes with ERHA
Getting started
Build the flows yourself, connector by connector.
Set up on your real files, validated on results.
Documents
Structured only, AI Builder as an extra.
Read and understood, whatever the layout.
Edge cases
The flow fails, or routes a wrong value.
Flagged for human validation.
Maintenance
Flows reworked when formats move.
Format variations are absorbed.
Cost
Per-user licences, tiers and credits.
Per run, displayed, capped, at real cost.
SourcesPower Automate pricing (microsoft.com)AI Builder documentation (learn.microsoft.com)
Coexist rather than replace
Your notification and simple-routing flows are fine where they are. ERHA takes the rest, the variable documents, the tasks that require reading, extracting and checking, and the processes that call for human validation.
Results land where you already work, a file in your space, an email, SharePoint or Teams. You start with a single process. The cost of every run is displayed, and the scope widens when you decide.
Frequently asked questions
Do we have to leave Microsoft 365 to use ERHA?
No, nothing changes. ERHA is used from your online space or by forwarded email, and delivers its results where you work, SharePoint and Teams included.
Does ERHA replace our existing flows?
Only the ones that hurt. Notifications and simple routing stay in Power Automate; ERHA takes the tasks that require reading, extracting and checking variable documents.
How is this different from AI Builder?
AI Builder adds document recognition to your flows, with models to train and credits to manage. ERHA delivers the whole process, reading, business rules, re-checking and human validation, with nothing to build.
Ready to get that time back?
We'll show you ERHA on one of your own files, in 30 minutes.