The Automation Audit: How to Identify, Define, and Govern the Workflows AI Sh...

Published on June 15, 2026 by Jason Hersh

The Automation Audit: How to Identify, Define, and Govern the Workflows AI Sh... - Published Newsletter Edition

📊 The Diagnostic: The Automation Lottery

Most organizations pick automation targets based on enthusiasm, not criteria.

Leaders see a new AI capability and immediately look for somewhere to plug it in. They target complex, highly variable processes with dirty data and undefined exception paths. The result is predictable: they end up automating broken processes at scale.

This is not an AI failure. This is an operational failure.

Do you have a written definition of what

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