The catalogue suggests a practical starting point: sell a bounded outcome before attempting a general automation platform. Three candidate workflows are attachment routing, supplier-file preparation and supplier-price comparison. None has a verified paid pilot in this research.
1. Route business attachments to the right folder
Define one mailbox, one document type and one destination. Ask how staff identify duplicates and incorrect attachments today. A useful pilot reports uncertain matches for review instead of silently filing everything. Existing email rules and automation products are the baseline to beat.
Attachment-routing evidence and competitors
2. Prepare a supplier file for import
Agree on a specific input format and target system. Preserve product identifiers as text, show every transformation and provide an exception file. Count manual review time as part of delivery. A customer's successful import is stronger evidence than a demo with clean sample data.
Supplier-file preparation research
3. Normalize supplier quotations
Start with a single buyer's purchasing units, currency and order size. Two prices cannot be ranked fairly when one is per carton and the other is per item. Treat missing freight or minimum-order information as unresolved, not zero.
A pilot agreement that generates useful evidence
- Specify the input, output and person who accepts the result.
- Set a maximum number of files, rows or transactions.
- Define cases requiring manual review.
- Compare the old and new process on the same sample.
- Record setup, corrections and support time separately.
When does a subscription make sense?
A subscription needs repeated value and a support burden the price can sustain. An occasional conversion is often better sold per job. If the workflow changes every week for every customer, it may remain an implementation service. That can still be a useful business, but its margins depend on delivery time.
Before building, inspect all 20 ideas and their stop conditions. The catalogue's price fields are proposed tests, not proof that customers will buy.