Start with the bottleneck
Look for work that happens repeatedly, follows a clear pattern and affects customers or the team. Lead response, follow-up, appointment handling and routine reporting are common starting points.
Start where repetitive work meets customer impact. The first automation should remove a real bottleneck, not simply make a process look more sophisticated.

Look for work that happens repeatedly, follows a clear pattern and affects customers or the team. Lead response, follow-up, appointment handling and routine reporting are common starting points.
Automation becomes more useful when it carries information from one step to the next: capture the enquiry, update the CRM, notify the right person and keep the next action visible.
Automate the predictable parts and keep important decisions with the team. A good system should make people faster without hiding the context they need.