Start with one painful task, not a platform

Most automation projects stall because they start too big. A team decides to "automate operations" and three months later there's a half-built platform nobody trusts.

The faster path is narrow: pick the single task you dread most — the one you do the same way every day — and automate just that. Inbox triage. Quote drafting. Follow-up emails. One task, end to end.

A small win that runs reliably builds the trust (and the data) to automate the next thing. That's how a system grows: one removed bottleneck at a time, not one big bet.