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An unclear workflow makes automation harder to define and evaluate.
“Use AI to save time” is not a workflow. “Turn support emails into tagged reply drafts and escalation notes” is a workflow.
The difference is inputs and outputs. A real automation has a trigger, a source, a transformation, a check, and a destination.
Describe these five pieces before choosing tools, so you can check whether each step does its job.
For n8n, Make, scripts, or agents, I like writing the boring version first. What comes in? What should come out? What can go wrong? Who approves it?
Then the AI part becomes much easier. The model is not asked to “be useful.” It is asked to perform one step inside a known system.
Start with one bounded workflow and inspect its output before expanding it.
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