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The 90-Day Build Plan

You picked the workflow. This turns it into a plan with a baseline, a written definition of done, and a real measurement at 30, 60, and 90 days. So you can prove it worked, not just hope it did.

How to use this: Bring one workflow you have already decided to build. Work down the sections and fill each field with plain answers. The gaps you cannot fill are the questions to settle before the build starts. Print it and use it as the plan of record.

One project, not the whole business

This plan organizes a project you have already chosen. Finding, comparing, and ranking opportunities across the whole business is a different job. That is what the paid Automation Blueprint does. Use this tool when you know the project. Use the Blueprint when you do not.

Weeks 1–2 · Define

How the workflow runs today. Time per run, cost, error rate, and what it feels like on a bad week.

What “working” means, in numbers a person can check. “Under 5 minutes, zero manual re-entry, right answer 99 times in 100.”

The one person who owns the result and answers for it after launch.

What goes in, what comes out. Be specific about formats and sources.

The ways this can go wrong, and which ones actually matter.

Weeks 3–8 · Build

What is in this build and what is explicitly out. Draw the line before you start.

The safe sample inputs you will run through it to prove it works.

Where a person still checks or approves, and who that person is.

Weeks 9–10 · Launch and soak

The date it goes live and who is watching it that first week.

It runs unattended for two weeks. Nothing is “done” until it clears this.

The session where your team takes it over: docs, credentials, and a live run.

Days 30, 60, 90 · Measure

Compare against your baseline at each mark. Is it still hitting the success criteria? What changed?

The section that earns its keep

Written success criteria is the one to get right. It is the difference between “the automation is done” and “the automation cut this from 40 minutes to 4 and has been right every time for a month.” Write it before you build. Measure against it at 30, 60, and 90 days. If you cannot write it, the project is not ready, and that is worth knowing now instead of in week eight.


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Bring your filled-in plan to a free Mapping Session. We'll pressure-test the success criteria and the scope, and tell you what is realistic in 90 days. No pitch.

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