Choosing your first automation project
Assess rules, information quality, exceptions and ownership before choosing a first workflow to automate.
Read the related guideWe design workflows for documents, tasks and approvals. For companies where manually moving information has become part of daily operations.
A document enters a defined channel and the system checks required information.
The case has an owner and reaches the appropriate decision point.
Approved information moves to the next system; incomplete cases enter a visible queue.
Trigger, outcome, rules, accountable owner and exception paths.
Automation with input checks, visible status and defined failure behaviour.
How to retry, stop the flow and give a case back to a person.
A document enters a defined channel and the system checks required information.
The case has an owner and reaches the appropriate decision point.
Approved information moves to the next system; incomplete cases enter a visible queue.
We do not encode a process that nobody can explain. If rules shift daily, inputs cannot be trusted, or ownership is missing, the first work is process clarification. Critical exceptions remain visible and have a manual route.
We map triggers, decisions, systems, volume, errors, and desired outcomes. A small end-to-end flow is built with monitoring and exception handling, then tested on representative cases. We need a process owner, sample inputs, system documentation, and someone able to confirm the output.
Discovery defines the useful boundary. Some steps may remain manual, especially when decisions are difficult to evaluate or reverse.
Assess rules, information quality, exceptions and ownership before choosing a first workflow to automate.
Read the related guideShare the situation today and the change you need. The technical specification can come later.