Readiness plan for one real task

Pick one task you actually do — at work, at home, in a business you run. Something concrete and real, not hypothetical.

Write a short plan, roughly 300–600 words. There is no template to fill in and no wrong answer; I am looking for honest thinking, not the right conclusion. A well-argued “I should not automate this” is a better answer than a vague yes.

Cover these

1. The task. What it is, how often you do it, and roughly how long it takes.
2. The one-sentence outcome. What “correct” looks like, in a single sentence.
3. Broken or sound? If broken, which of the three kinds — inconsistency, volume, or ambiguity? What would fixing it involve?
4. The five questions. Answer each one honestly. Say plainly which ones you could not answer.
5. Failure design. What happens if it runs twice? What would tell you it had stopped running — and would that thing reach you?
6. Your verdict. Automate now, fix first then automate, or leave alone — and why.

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