Spent 10 months extending different community templates with document processing. Pattern I noticed: Most templates assume humans will read documents and feed information to workflows.
Personal assistant? You read and brief it.
Marketing agents? You read RFPs and brief them.
Support? You read attachments.
Templates handle routing, logic, automation beautifully. But document reading? Still manual.
THE UNIVERSAL EXTENSION:
Add document processing to ANY template. Workflow reads documents automatically. Humans review instead of transcribe.
TEMPLATES I'VE EXTENDED:
- Personal assistant + invoice reading
- Marketing agents + RFP processing
- Support + attachment analysis
- Recruitment + resume scoring
- Sales + contract validation
- Content creation + research integration
- Project management + spec extraction
- Expense tracking + receipt OCR
- Email automation + attachment intelligence
SAME PATTERN EVERY TIME:
- Template already has great logic. Just add document reading at input stage.
- Build time: 30-90 minutes per extension
- Time saved: 5-20 hours monthly per template
THE REALIZATION:
Community templates are 90% complete. They're just missing document vision.
Small extensions. Massive capability jumps.
MY APPROACH:
- 1. Identify where humans read documents in workflow
- 2. Add document processing at that step
- 3. Extract structured data
- 4. Feed to existing template logic
- 5. Template operates with full context now
RESULTS ACROSS ALL EXTENSIONS:
- 40+ hours monthly saved across all workflows
- Quality improvements measurable in every case
- Agent responses more accurate and complete
- Customer/team satisfaction consistently up
Stop manually reading documents to brief your automation. Teach your automation to read.
What community template are you using that could benefit from document intelligence?