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Lesson 2 — Your First Real Workflow
Pick the tool by cost per task at your real volume, not by the vendor's landing page.
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- Select the platform on cost per task at ten times your current volume, not on feature lists
- Prefer webhook triggers to polling — polling is slow and burns operations you pay for
- Put the model only in the fuzzy step, force structured output, and validate it before acting
- Ship with a credential store, an error branch, and sub-workflows instead of one giant canvas
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