Examples Can this be automated?
Can this be automated?
Somebody on your team spends real, recurring time copying the same information between systems that already work fine on their own.
None of this is about replacing anyone's judgment. It's about the parts of the job that were never really a decision, just a chore someone agreed to do a few years ago and never stopped doing.
Once the workflow is understood well enough to describe precisely, it's usually understood well enough to automate. The output is a process that runs on its own and a person who can see what it's doing.
- The same data gets typed or pasted into two or three places every week
- A form comes in, and a person reads it and forwards it or re-enters it somewhere else
- There's a spreadsheet that exists only to bridge two systems that don't talk
- Someone would say "it's not hard, it just takes forever" if you asked them about it
- Watch the workflow as it actually happens, not as it's supposed to happen
- Identify which steps are genuinely judgment calls and which are just repetition
- Build the connection between the systems, using what they already provide
- Test it against the messy real cases, not just the clean one
- Document what it does and hand over how to check it's still working
Solve for U Defined project, fixed price
For a problem with a shape: a migration, an integration, a cleanup, something stalled. We define the outcome together and agree on a price before the work starts.
Technical help, without the usual boundaries.
Tell me what's going on. “No” is in my vocabulary. If it isn't something I should take on, I'll say so.