I was sitting in a JP Morgan internship Zoom call yesterday.

Olakunle Ajani

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Standard corporate thing, right? But before we could even start, everyone had to manually scan a QR code to check in.

10 minutes. For a QR code scan.

At a company managing trillions.

That moment stuck with me because it's a perfect example of small automations.

Most automation discussions are about big systems. New tools. Massive overhauls.

But the real leverage is in the small stuff.

The 10-minute check-in that happens 3x/week. The email someone copies and pastes every morning. The follow-up that dies because nobody remembered to send it.

Individually they're not "problems worth solving." But a company with 50 people doing 5 of those tasks daily?

That's hundreds of hours a year. Real money.

The people building successful automation businesses aren't selling big solutions. They're finding the small frictions that exist everywhere and removing them.

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