Let's cut through the automation hype and talk cold, hard economics. Every manual process in your business has a cost—not just the obvious labor expense, but the hidden tax of errors, delays, inconsistency, and opportunity cost. When Sarah from operations spends 10 hours weekly reconciling data across three systems, you're not just paying her salary. You're paying for the strategic work she's NOT doing, the errors that slip through, the bottleneck she creates for downstream processes.