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Issue 3

Choose the First Automation Candidate

The first automation should be valuable enough to matter and narrow enough to ship without reorganizing the business.

Audience

Small teams choosing between several possible AI and automation projects.

Workflow

Pilot selection

Diagnosis

The candidate is painful but too broad to build in one pass.
The output is not clearly defined.
Success is described as efficiency, but no baseline exists.

Practical Move

Define the trigger, input, output, review point, owner, and metric for one pilot before build work begins.

LinkedIn Post Seed

A good first automation is not the biggest problem in the company. It is the smallest useful workflow where the team can prove value, learn safely, and expand from evidence.

Outreach Question

If you had to automate one narrow workflow in the next 30 days, what output would prove it was worth doing?