Everyone jumps straight to building a 20-step Zapier/Make chain before they've even mapped the actual bottleneck in their business.

Here's the order that actually works:

1. Write down the manual task exactly as you do it today, no shortcuts.

2. Find the ONE step that eats the most time — not the whole process.

3. Automate that single step first with the simplest tool possible (even a prompt template counts).

4. Only chain steps together once each one is proven solo.

Most automation builds fail because people automate a broken process instead of fixing the process first. Curious what bottleneck you're stuck on right now — drop it below and I'll help you think through the automation.