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WF-03Workflow automation4 prompts · 5 min

From a messy process description to a priceable spec

Record the conversation with whoever does the work, paste the transcript, and run these in order. The output is a spec, with its own gaps marked.

  1. 1 · Extract the steps

    Straight after the conversation, on the raw transcript.

    Below is a transcript of someone describing how they do a recurring piece of work.
    
    [PASTE TRANSCRIPT]
    
    Extract the process as an ordered list. Write every step as verb, object, system — for example "check the order in Shopify", not "verify order details". Where they named a system, keep the exact name. Where they did not, write SYSTEM UNKNOWN rather than guessing.
    
    Do not tidy the order into something more logical than what they said.
  2. 2 · Find the decisions

    On the output of step 1.

    in the PDF

  3. 3 · Surface the exceptions

    Before anyone estimates anything.

    in the PDF

  4. 4 · Write the spec

    Once the questions from step 3 have answers.

    in the PDF

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