Operations · Advanced · about 16 minutes

Maintaining automations — the part nobody plans for

Six automations run in your business. The person who built three of them has left. Nobody is sure what two of them do.

You need

Automations: (1) weekly stock exception report — built by Rahul, who left in January; (2) daily lead follow-up drafts — owned by Kavita, verified last month; (3) monthly reconciliation chain — owned by Fatima, verified in October; (4) supplier payment reminder — built by Rahul, nobody sure who owns…

Tool

One spreadsheet

You get

1. ORPHANED — highest priority.

Time saved

Roughly an hour per automation per quarter. It prevents the far larger cost of an automation being silently wrong for months.