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Automate the typing. Not the thinking.
The best automation targets are boring, repetitive and currently done by a person copying information from one screen to another. The worst are the ones requiring judgement, and they are the ones people ask for first.
Short answer
Business automation removes repetitive manual steps from a process — usually data being retyped between systems, notifications sent by hand, or documents assembled from information that already exists. The best candidates are high-frequency tasks with clear rules and no judgement involved.
Removes retyping first
High-frequency, rule-based
Judgement stays human
Failures visible
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01 The premise
What to automate and in what order.
The instinct is to automate whatever is most annoying. The better criterion is frequency multiplied by rule-clarity. Something done forty times a week with an unambiguous rule is a superb candidate. Something done twice a month requiring a judgement call is a poor one, however irritating it feels.
That is why the first automation in almost any business is data movement. An enquiry arriving on the website is typed into a CRM. An order is typed into an invoice. A completed job is typed into a spreadsheet. Each of those is frequent, rule-based, and currently consuming attention that could be spent on something a person is uniquely able to do.
The failure mode is automating judgement. A rule that decides which supplier to use, or whether a discount is warranted, encodes a decision that was previously made with context the rule cannot see. It works until the exception arrives, and then it fails confidently and silently — which is considerably worse than a person hesitating.
02 Straight talk
Good candidates, and bad ones.
A quick test before scoping anything.
Automate this
- Data typed between systems. Frequent, rule-based, and adds nothing. Almost always the first thing to fix.
- Notifications sent by hand. Status updates, confirmations, reminders. Reliable and instant when automated.
- Documents assembled repeatedly. Invoices, vouchers, quotations built from data that already exists.
- Scheduled reports. Compiled the same way every week by somebody exporting and pasting.
- Rule-based routing. Assigning by territory or workload, where the rule is genuinely unambiguous.
Leave this alone
- Anything needing judgement. Discount approval, supplier choice, handling an unhappy customer.
- Infrequent tasks. Twice a month is not worth the build or the maintenance.
- Rules that keep changing. If the rule changes quarterly, automating it creates a permanent maintenance job.
- Processes nobody has agreed. Automating a disputed process makes the dispute permanent and harder to see.
- Customer conversations. Automated responses to real questions damage more relationships than they save time.
03 Common targets
Where the time usually is.
The recurring candidates across almost every business I look at.
Document generation
Quotations, invoices and vouchers produced from existing data instead of assembled in Word.
Status notifications
Order confirmed, job scheduled, engineer on the way. Sent automatically on the channel people read.
WhatsApp AutomationReminders and follow-up
Chasing that happens whether or not somebody remembers. Most lost sales were forgotten.
Marketing AutomationScheduled reporting
The weekly numbers compiled and sent automatically rather than by somebody exporting and pasting.
System synchronisation
Stock, prices or customer records kept consistent across systems without manual updating.
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What do you do forty times a week?
That is the question. Frequency multiplied by rule-clarity identifies the automation worth building, and it is rarely the task that annoys people most.
- Prioritised by frequency, not by irritation
- I will say when it is not worth automating
- Failure handling built in
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04 Requirements
What a durable automation includes.
The difference between an automation that works and one that fails silently in month four.
Requirements
- A defined trigger. Precisely what starts it, with no ambiguity about edge cases.
- An explicit failure path. What happens when it cannot complete. Silent failure is the standard way automations die.
- Logging. A record of what ran, when, and what it did. Without this you cannot investigate anything.
- Alerts on repeated failure. Somebody told when it keeps failing, rather than discovering it weeks later.
- A manual override. A way for a person to do it by hand when needed. Automation should not create a hostage situation.
- An exception route. Cases the rule does not cover, sent to a person rather than forced through the rule.
- Documentation. What it does and how to change it, because the person who inherits it will not be you.
— Automation
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These sit next to business automation and are usually bought with it. Same person doing the work in each case.
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Read more— Questions
business automation — your questions.
Straight answers, including the ones that cost me work. If yours is not here, ask it — I reply the same day.
Whatever is done most often with the clearest rules — usually data being retyped between two systems you already pay for. It is frequent, unambiguous, and adds nothing when done by a person. Irritation is a poor prioritisation criterion; frequency is a good one.
In small businesses it usually redistributes work rather than removing people. What it removes is the retyping, the chasing and the assembling, which frees the same staff for work that needs a person. Anyone selling automation primarily as headcount reduction is overselling it.
It should log the failure, alert somebody after repeated failures, and leave a manual route available. Automations that fail silently are the reason people distrust automation, and it is entirely a design choice rather than an inevitability.
Frequently not. A great deal of useful automation is connecting tools you already pay for so data stops being retyped. That is cheaper than new software and it is the first thing I look at.
It depends on how many systems are involved and how well documented their APIs are. A single well-documented one-way flow is a small piece of work. The cost rises with the number of systems and with how many exception cases the rule has to handle.
Yes, where the rules are genuinely agreed. The common problem is that approval processes are less defined than people think — automating a disputed process makes the dispute permanent. Settling the rule is usually the harder half of the job.
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- Prioritised by frequency, not irritation
- I will say when it is not worth building
- Failure handling and manual override
- Fixed price agreed before work starts
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