Something I keep noticing when I dig into a new automation project:

The manual workaround that "takes five minutes" is usually running ten times a day across three different people.

That's not five minutes. That's a hidden full-time job nobody has accounted for.

I'm currently working on a Make.com scenario that eliminates exactly this kind of invisible overhead, routing data between platforms, handling edge cases automatically, and removing a process that was quietly eating hours every week.

The build itself is straightforward. The hard part, as always, is getting the logic right so it handles the messy real-world inputs rather than just the clean ones.

Curious whether others find this, that the most valuable automations aren't the flashy ones, but the ones that just quietly stop something annoying from happening?

What's the most "unglamorous" automation you've built or seen that turned out to have the biggest impact?