The person who knows the workflow is rarely the person who can script it. Every handoff between them loses something.
The person who knows the routine is the person who runs it every week. They know which exceptions matter, which mismatch is normal at month end, and which supplier always sends the file late.
In a script-shaped tool, none of that goes in directly. It gets described to someone else, translated, approximated, and shipped — and the approximations are exactly where the automation later goes wrong.
Say it the way you'd say it to a new hire
A rule in Rowbot is a sentence: when this happens, check that, and if it does not match, leave it for me. The thresholds are yours, the naming is yours, and the exceptions are stated rather than implied.
When the routine changes, you edit the sentence. There is no rebuild, no ticket, and nobody to translate it a second time.
Plain does not mean vague
The steps the agent derives are shown back to you before anything runs, and you approve them. Ambiguity gets caught there, at the point where fixing it costs a sentence — not weeks later in a reconciliation nobody trusts.
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