Two layers of automation: simple if-then workflows without AI, and workflows that add AI for reasoning or writing. About half of what businesses automate doesn't need AI at all. Start with the simplest solution that solves your actual problem before building an agent.
Please do not build another AI agent until you watch this. All right, moving on to the second layer. This is simple workflow automation. So this is when you have a series of steps connected together that run automatically on some sort of trigger that follow pure if-then conditional logic with zero AI intelligence. The defining characteristic here is that it's completely predictable. It's got the same trigger, it's got the same sequence, and you have basically the same output. So it's a very deterministic flow with a predictable input and predictable sequence of steps and then predictable output. Now just one more step up from that is an AI workflow, which basically holds the same principle of a set amount of steps or a set sequence of steps in the same order every single time. But now we're able to use AI in there for a little bit of reasoning or output. So even though there's AI to do some planning and to do some writing and editing, it still happens in the same order where it goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. And actually what I've seen when we've worked with businesses and when we've helped people work with businesses is that the majority of automations can be simple and they don't even need any AI. And I'm talking like 50% of automations that you could go in and build for a business right away. And it really just comes back to the idea of a lot of times people will come to you and they think they need AI or they know they need to start using AI, but they don't know exactly how. And they'll tell you what's going on. but your job isn't to say, here's what I will do with AI. Your job is to say, okay, let's actually understand the root of this problem and what is the most efficient solution that we can implement right away that will give you quick win, that will, you know, keep your costs low and keep everything simple. If you wanna watch the full breakdown, then click on that play button right here and I'll see you guys over there.
