Five differences, in the order a skeptic asks about them. Each one starts with your question, answers it plainly, and says what it means when your name goes on the work.
This page answers: who decided, on what evidence, and what happens when it goes wrong?
AI is not a tool. It is non-human capital.
You can scale a team, or add a headcount, and a consultancy costs a partner’s day rate. A governed workforce gives a different kind of elasticity: capacity that arrives with the method already in it, and that leaves a record behind when it is done. Managed as capital rather than consumed as software, it expands in front of the work instead of waiting to be prompted.
Not one system and three labels. Together they are the thing you sign.
A tool can join a workflow. Only a workforce can share the work.
Humans and agents work the same document: drafting, challenging and reviewing in real time, some carried over and back.
You commission the outcome. The price follows the work, never the question. One finished work product, or many pieces of work gated and signed, sits under one record either way. Every piece is chained to the outcome it serves and the strategy above it. Nothing is produced for its own sake, and you pay for work performed, never for which of the five it turned out to be.