Automation · Intermediate · about 17 minutes

Doing to assisting to automating — and why you must not skip a stage

You build an automation for the weekly report. Week two, the export format changes. Week three, you realise the summary needs a section you had not thought of.

You need

Workflow: every Monday, pull the weekend WhatsApp field notes, summarise for the director, send. Runs with AI: 6.

Tool

Google Apps Script

You get

1. READY — yes.

Time saved

The discipline itself saves the rebuild-and-abandon cycle, which is typically 6–10 wasted hours per attempted automation.