He had to admit, he’d once done it manually. He remembered, when the agency first used Agents, his Director had told him to go back into the system and “tidy things up” before the awards. It hadn’t felt right but the director had made the argument that the department’s creativity was what the agency was entering. Now he didn’t need to get his hands dirty. He could concentrate on his “added value” as the agency put it. Everything was automated. The Agents “dissolved”. He still wasn’t sure. The director had gone now. The director Agent didn’t bother making any argument.