The Best AI Workflow Is Usually Boring
The workflows that pay off aren't the impressive demos. They're the unglamorous ones that quietly remove a manual step every single day.
AI built on a CRM nobody trusts just produces confident output from bad data. Ownership and data hygiene come before the model.
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The workflows that pay off aren't the impressive demos. They're the unglamorous ones that quietly remove a manual step every single day.
Automation doesn't fail because the tools are weak. It fails because the underlying workflow was never defined — so the automation just moves the mess faster.