No need to aim for the moon. The best first AI workstreams are repetitive chores. Five concrete examples.
1. Supplier invoice entry
Automatic capture and matching instead of manual re-entry. Hours saved every month in accounting.
2. Recurring email replies
Customer service, HR questions, standard requests: an assistant drafts, a human validates. Less repetition, same quality.
3. Marketing content writing
Briefs, first drafts, country variants. The human keeps control of validation and brand.
4. Meeting and call summaries
Transcription then a summary with action points. Nobody takes notes by hand anymore.
5. Searching documents
Find a clause, a certificate or a procedure in seconds instead of digging through folders.
The golden rule
Before automating, measure how long it takes today. After, measure again. Without a before and after number, you will never know if it works, and you will not convince the next team. That is exactly what an audit puts on paper.