Every business runs on repeatable processes — onboarding a hire, issuing an invoice, provisioning an account. Done by hand, each one costs time and invites errors. Automated, each one becomes fast, consistent, and auditable.
The best automation candidates share three traits: they happen often, they follow rules, and mistakes in them are expensive. Employee onboarding is the classic example — a role-based checklist executed by automation gets a new hire the right access on day one, and nothing more.
For government contractors there's a compliance dividend too: automated processes produce logs, and logs are evidence. When your assessor asks how you ensure access is removed on departure, 'an automated workflow with a documented trail' is a better answer than 'someone usually remembers.'
Start small: pick one painful, frequent process, automate it end-to-end, and measure the hours returned. Momentum does the rest.