The Automation Opportunity Audit: Finding the ROI Before Writing Code

Frequency, minutes per instance, error rate and cost, and people involved — hours-per-month recovered is the currency; feelings aren't.

Quick wins first (trust and budget), platform investments second (shared integrations lower every later cost) — the audit's roadmap is a portfolio, not a wishlist.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.