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Problem A10

I am not sure whether this task is even worth automating.

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What you are doing now

You read vendor content that assumes the answer is always yes, then either over-build something fragile or do nothing.

How often: Once per candidate task. It is the question that comes before every other question here.

What you want instead

A defensible decision — including the legitimate decision not to automate.

The free option first

This entire page is the free alternative. There is nothing to buy and we earn nothing from it.

Who should not do this

Most tasks, most of the time. That is the honest finding and it is why this page exists.

Before you build anything for this, the Automation Decision Sheet works out whether it is worth automating at all. It is free, needs no email address, and often concludes that it is not.

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