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Don't Automate the Mess

Written by Kevin Burke | Jun 18, '25

If your process is broken, automation just multiplies the chaos.

Let me save you from an expensive mistake: don’t automate the mess.

AI is powerful.

But if your workflow doesn’t make sense to a human, it’ll confuse the hell out of a machine.

Most people think automation is a shortcut.

But don’t automate until you’ve mapped what’s really happening.

What outcome are you trying to drive?

Where’s momentum stalling in your funnel?

Where’s your team losing time?

Automating a broken system doesn’t fix it— it just spreads the mess faster.

That’s why we audit before we automate.

AI needs structure. Without it, you’re just speeding up confusion.

Skip the thinking, and you’ll automate the wrong thing— and lose more than time.