Comparison

aiprocess.design vs SmartFlow, side by side

SmartFlow is the AI feature set inside ProcessPro, a governance-first process management platform: upload a document and get a draft map with roles and swim lanes, a health check of the design, an executive summary and a downloadable SOP, all inside a system with ownership, approvals and version history. If your need is controlled, audit-ready process documentation, that is a serious product. This page is about a different question: what do you use when the deliverable is one process redesigned for humans and AI agents, checked against European law, with a number in your currency?

The difference in one sentence

SmartFlow turns your documents into governed process documentation; aiprocess.design turns your documents into evidence for a redesign, then designs, governs and prices the version where AI agents do part of the work. One manages the process you have; the other designs the one you will run next.

	SmartFlow (ProcessPro)	aiprocess.design
Core purpose	Governance-first process management platform; SmartFlow AI is its AI feature set for drafting and documenting processes	Design studio for processes where humans and AI agents share the work, with governance and a business case built in
From a document	PDF, Word or presentation becomes a draft map with activities, tasks, roles and swim lanes; a manual can be analysed to surface the processes it holds	Up to three PDFs as one dossier: the AI lists the processes it finds with pages, you pick one, and every step of the as-is cites its page; contradictions between documents are declared, not hidden
Other ways in	A title and objectives, an existing process, or transcripts	Eight doors: plain-text brief, hand drawing, guided interview, photos of whiteboards, document dossier, meeting transcript, BPMN import, records (CSV or XLSX)
What the AI proposes	Improvement recommendations, health check and risk analysis of the design, groupings, an executive summary, an SOP	A redesigned to-be where each step is typed: human, hybrid or AI agent, with autonomy level, model tier, controls and human gates
Design checks	Structural health check: missing ownership, unclear inputs and outputs, repeated handoffs, dead ends (not a business risk assessment)	Engineering rules, model-structure rules from the 7PMG research, and EU AI Act, GDPR, NIS2, DORA and ISO 42001 advisors, each citing its article
Money	Time and cost analysis inside the platform	A business case in your currency per redesign: hours saved versus live AI model prices, payback month, 12-month curve and what-if sliders
Governance of the content	Strong: ownership, approvals, publishing, version history, SSO, audit-ready documentation	Versions, comments and a public share link; governance here means oversight of the agents, not document workflow
Implementation handoff	Downloadable SOP with responsibilities and procedure steps	Micro-task blueprints per step, per-agent build specs, a delivery board, BPMN 2.0 export, PDF and PPTX
Who it is for	Process, quality, risk and compliance teams that need controlled, audit-ready documentation	Consultants and operations teams redesigning one process at a time for humans plus agents

SmartFlow (ProcessPro)

aiprocess.design

Core purpose

Governance-first process management platform; SmartFlow AI is its AI feature set for drafting and documenting processes

Design studio for processes where humans and AI agents share the work, with governance and a business case built in

From a document

PDF, Word or presentation becomes a draft map with activities, tasks, roles and swim lanes; a manual can be analysed to surface the processes it holds

Up to three PDFs as one dossier: the AI lists the processes it finds with pages, you pick one, and every step of the as-is cites its page; contradictions between documents are declared, not hidden

Other ways in

A title and objectives, an existing process, or transcripts

Eight doors: plain-text brief, hand drawing, guided interview, photos of whiteboards, document dossier, meeting transcript, BPMN import, records (CSV or XLSX)

What the AI proposes

Improvement recommendations, health check and risk analysis of the design, groupings, an executive summary, an SOP

A redesigned to-be where each step is typed: human, hybrid or AI agent, with autonomy level, model tier, controls and human gates

Design checks

Structural health check: missing ownership, unclear inputs and outputs, repeated handoffs, dead ends (not a business risk assessment)

Engineering rules, model-structure rules from the 7PMG research, and EU AI Act, GDPR, NIS2, DORA and ISO 42001 advisors, each citing its article

Money

Time and cost analysis inside the platform

A business case in your currency per redesign: hours saved versus live AI model prices, payback month, 12-month curve and what-if sliders

Governance of the content

Strong: ownership, approvals, publishing, version history, SSO, audit-ready documentation

Versions, comments and a public share link; governance here means oversight of the agents, not document workflow

Implementation handoff

Downloadable SOP with responsibilities and procedure steps

Micro-task blueprints per step, per-agent build specs, a delivery board, BPMN 2.0 export, PDF and PPTX

Who it is for

Process, quality, risk and compliance teams that need controlled, audit-ready documentation

Consultants and operations teams redesigning one process at a time for humans plus agents

Frequently asked questions

Is aiprocess.design a SmartFlow or ProcessPro alternative?

Only partly. ProcessPro is a process management platform: ownership, approvals, publishing and audit trails, with SmartFlow AI drafting maps and SOPs from your documents. aiprocess.design is a design studio for the step after that: deciding which steps move to AI agents, under which controls, and what it is worth in your currency. If your need is governed documentation for a quality system, ProcessPro is the better fit.

Both read documents. What is different?

The output. SmartFlow turns a document into a draft process with roles and swim lanes for your team to review and publish. aiprocess.design treats documents as evidence: it screens a dossier of up to three PDFs for the processes inside, lets you pick one, draws the as-is with a page reference on every step, and declares contradictions between the documents. Then the agentic to-be, the legal advisors and the business case start from that validated as-is.

Can they work together?

Yes. A natural pattern is to keep the governed, approved documentation in ProcessPro and use aiprocess.design when a process is being redesigned for AI agents: export the BPMN or bring the SOP as a PDF, design the future, and take the specs, blueprints and business case back to your programme.

aiprocess.design vs SmartFlow, side by side

The difference in one sentence

Frequently asked questions

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