AI · 6 min read
Workflow automation: where to start
TTThinkers Tech Team · 30 April 2025
Every business has a handful of processes that eat disproportionate time relative to how much judgment they actually require. Those are the ones to automate first.
Look for repetition (the same steps, done the same way, many times a week), clear rules (a human isn't really deciding, just following a checklist), and a paper trail (approvals, notifications, hand-offs between people or systems).
Approvals routing, payment reconciliation, and status notifications are almost always good starting points because they meet all three criteria and free up real hours immediately.
We map your workflows against this framework in the first session, so automation effort goes toward the process actually costing you the most time.
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