The hard part was making it simple.

Complexity is what rations automation.

Almost every process in your close could be automated. Most of them never will be, and the reason has nothing to do with whether it's possible.

Automation capable enough to handle real accounting work has always arrived wrapped in a project — a scoping call, a statement of work, a consultant who has to learn your process, an implementation calendar, a budget line someone has to defend. That cost is roughly fixed no matter what you're automating. So it gets spent on the biggest thing on the list, and everything underneath stays manual.

It isn't that the small work can't be automated. It's that automating it costs more than doing it again. And again. For years.

Simplicity is what moves that line. When setting something up costs a conversation instead of a quarter, the arithmetic changes for every process you have — including all the ones that were never going to be worth a project.