Automate the right work before you automate more work.
Use these free tools to decide what is worth automating, put a dollar value on the current process, and turn the best candidate into a narrow pilot you can actually test.
Three steps from idea to pilot.
Each resource is useful on its own, but together they form a practical decision path from “we should automate something” to a scoped first test.
AI Automation Opportunity Scorecard
Compare three workflows by business impact and automation readiness so you can rank what to automate first.
Use this tool →Manual Process Cost Calculator
Estimate the annual labor, rework, and delay cost tied to one recurring process before you build an automation.
Use this tool →Automation Pilot Brief Builder
Turn a process into a testable pilot brief with trigger, owner, systems, stop conditions, human review, and success measures.
Use this tool →Value → readiness → economics → pilot.
Start by comparing candidate workflows. Then quantify the cost of the current process. Only after a process has both meaningful value and reasonable readiness should you scope the smallest useful automation pilot.
Turn tribal knowledge into a usable SOP before automating it.
If the rules, ownership, or exception handling are unclear, document the process first. That gives the automation something stable to implement.