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How to Build Your First AI Workflow
Step-by-step guide to building your first AI workflow in under an hour, with a downloadable template.
Quick answer. Pick a weekly task. Map the manual steps. Replace 2 of them with AI. Add a review gate. Ship one run today. That's the entire first workflow.
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Five steps from idea to first run
- Choose a weekly task you'd happily delete from your calendar.
- Map the manual steps in order.
- Identify the 2 steps AI can do well.
- Write the structured prompt for each.
- Add a 60-second review checklist and run it end-to-end once.
When to automate (not now)
Run the workflow manually 3 times first. Only after it works do you wire a trigger. Premature automation hides bugs.
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