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Worked example · fictional business

Imagine a four-person import agency where the owner builds the monthly report to each supplier from the LDB export and the agency’s own order spreadsheet, and it takes somewhere between eleven and twenty hours a month. The answers are invented. The result content below is not: it comes from the current Scan engine and uses the same result component a real respondent sees. Two sentences are adapted for a fictional example: the email-delivery note, and the personal review invitation, which is left out. No customer’s data appears here.

Your AI Operations Scan

Start here: building the monthly sales report for each of our suppliers from the LDB sales data and our own order records

Your stated priority: Give the team time back. You identified building the monthly sales report for each of our suppliers from the LDB sales data and our own order records as a practical place to start on it.

Likely first intervention

Based on what you shared, the lightest sensible place to begin is likely to be connecting the systems and automating the routine path.

The path is stable enough and the information is already digital, so the routine version of this work can move between systems without someone pushing it.

A plausible shape for this is visible in your answers. It is worth confirming against the real workflow before committing to it.

Why this comes first

  • This work happens monthly, and you estimated it uses 11–20 hours a month of team time.
  • When it does not run well: the founder or a key person gets pulled in.
  • The steps are consistent and the information is already digital, but it is still being moved by hand.

What to check before changing anything

  • Decide what should happen to the unusual cases before automating the normal one.
  • One person mostly owns this. That is concentration risk rather than a blocker — but write the steps down as part of the work, not after it.

Your next three actions

Each of these is small enough to start this week, without buying anything or booking a call.

  1. Confirm the trigger, required inputs, output, and owner.
  2. List the normal exceptions and decide what must go to a person.
  3. Test one narrow path with real examples before expanding it.

This result is a working hypothesis built from your answers, not a diagnosis of your business. On a real Scan, a private link to the result is emailed to you.

Now with your own work

Your result will name the job you describe, in your words, and the lightest change likely to help it. If what you describe does not justify a project yet, it says so.

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