Your first five automations: start with the boring ones

The best first automations remove small, repeated chores. They are easy to check, easy to trust, and they free up attention immediately.

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Ambitious automations are tempting, but the ones teams keep are usually modest: create the same tasks every time, notify the same people, set the same dates.

Five good places to start

Create an onboarding checklist when a deal is won. Assign an owner to new inbound accounts by region. Remind the owner when an account has had no activity for thirty days.

Post a short summary to the team channel when a large deal changes stage. Create a renewal review task ninety days before each renewal date.

If you can describe it in one sentence starting with ‘when’, it is a good candidate.

Keep them visible

Name each automation after what it does, not how it works. Log every run on the records it touches so people understand why a task or message appeared.

Review automations quarterly. Turn off the ones nobody would miss, and refine the ones people rely on.