Lesson 1 — Find the Automatable Hour

You cannot automate a process you have never done by hand. First find the hour that repeats.

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Log one full week of work before choosing anything to automate — do not rely on memory
Filter candidates on four traits: repeated, rules-based, high volume, digital inputs
Score with runs per month times minutes per run, divided by build hours, to get payback time
Write the full runbook in plain text first; every workflow you build maps to Trigger, Enrich, Decide, Act, Log

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