Reimagining the Workflow

Adding an assistant to an existing process is the obvious move and often the least valuable one. The process was designed for a world where reading, drafting, summarising, and classifying were expensive human labour. When those become cheap, available on demand, and integrated with software, the process itself may deserve a redesign: fewer handoffs, decisions made earlier, information gathered once instead of repeatedly.

Start from the outcome the process exists to deliver and ask what it would look like if intelligence were a component you could place anywhere. Then compare with what you have. The gap is the opportunity, and it is usually larger than any single assistant can close.