Automating a process you don’t fully understand yet usually creates a faster version of the same ...Automating a process you don’t fully understand yet usually creates a faster version of the same ...
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Fatima Farooq
• Aug 19
Automating a process you don’t fully understand yet usually creates a faster version of the same confusion.
Before building an automation, run the process manually.
Document each step. Run it a few times. Look for exceptions and bottlenecks. Then automate what actually works.
This is especially important with AI automation. It’s tempting to connect a few tools, add an AI agent, and call it a system.
But automation works best when the underlying process is already clear.
Don’t automate confusion.
Understand the process first. Then make it faster.
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