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In my experience, the biggest weekly time sink tends to be work that sits between teams rather than inside a single system. Things like manually reconciling data between billing, support, and ops, or preparing the same reports in slightly different formats for different stakeholders. These processes usually start small and “temporary,” but scale quietly as the company grows. The trade-off is that they’re hard to automate cleanly because ownership isn’t always clear. Curious whether the pain you’re seeing is more about fragmented data or about human approval loops that automation alone doesn’t fully eliminate?


Hm, those are quite tricky and involve a higher-level fuzzy area, where the way forward isn't so clean cut.

Would you want to share how your work or personal life has been affected by these?




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