Map one repeated workflow
- Trigger: What starts the work—a form, payment, date, email, or status change?
- Inputs: What information is required, and where does it come from?
- Decision points: Which choices are rules, and which require judgment?
- Actions: What is created, updated, sent, or assigned?
- Evidence: How will you prove the action completed correctly?
- Recovery: What happens when a service fails or data is missing?
Good early automation candidates
- Creating an internal follow-up task from an approved form.
- Flagging overdue work for review.
- Preparing a draft that a person approves before sending.
- Producing a daily operational summary.
- Moving information between systems with validation and duplicate protection.
Keep human approval for consequential actions
Payments, refunds, contracts, account removal, public publishing, regulated decisions, sensitive messages, and unusual exceptions should remain reviewable. Store an audit trail and use stable idempotency keys so retries do not duplicate work.
Start read-only. Let the automation identify work and produce a preview. Add external actions only after the results are consistently correct.
Map the busywork around your real goal.
BesLyfe can separate safe internal scans, reviewed external actions, and tasks that should remain human.