50 AI Automations That Pay

Fifty automations, each written so you could build it this weekend - or hand the page to someone who will. Not fifty ideas. Fifty specifications. Every entry gives you the same nine things: who it's for, the problem in concrete terms, exactly what the workflow does and where a human stays in the loop, what tools you need, how hard it is to build, how to measure what it returns, how it fails, and the smallest version worth shipping first. Organised by what you get back rather than by department. Hours Back. Cash In Faster. Nothing Falls Through. Revenue You Were Already Owed. Decisions, Faster. Most of it is ground the AI-automation genre ignores - bank feed categorisation, receipt matching, subscription audits, supplier price drift, contract and licence expiry, insurance certificate collection, application triage, offboarding, certification tracking, duplicate detection, month-end close, P&L anomalies. And one thing you won't find: invented numbers. No "saves you 20 hours a week." Every entry tells you which quantity to measure, to capture your baseline before you build, and when to check again. The honest answer to "what does this return?" is that it depends on your business - so the book teaches you to find out. Platform pricing is dated and sourced. The failure modes are specific.