🔎 Step 1 — Identify
It all starts with the right opportunity. Identify is hunting, within a routine or business, for the repetitive tasks that drain the most time and money — the “10-hour tasks” from Module 1.1. Poor identification dooms the rest of the process.
🎯 What to do in this step
- •List the tasks that repeat more than twice.
- •Mark which ones are mechanical and predictable.
- •Estimate the total time each one takes.
🧭 Where this becomes a path
This step is the heart of the Track 2 — Audit & Mapping, which teaches you how to find the 10-hour task and measure time and cost systematically.
Find the right task.
Repetition and patterns.
Task time and cost.
Where to go deeper.
🗺️ Step 2 — Map
You can’t automate what you don’t understand. Map is documenting the current process step by step — inputs, decisions, outputs — so you can see exactly where automation fits. It’s the bridge between the problem (as-is) and the solution (to-be).
✓ Well-crafted as-is map
- ✓Show every actual step in the process.
- ✓Reveals bottlenecks and rework.
- ✓Shows where automation fits in.
✗ Skip the mapping
- ✗Automate one part and break another.
- ✗Discovering exceptions only after it's done.
- ✗Build in the dark and redo everything.
🧭 Where this becomes a path
Mapping is also part of the Track 2 — Audit & Mapping: diagram the as-is → to-be process and calculate the time savings.
What the process is like today.
How it will be automated.
Where time is lost.
Where to go deeper.
📐 Stage 3 — Design
Design is turning the mapped process into a concrete project: which tools, which AI models, what logic, which prompts, and where the decision points are. A good blueprint makes implementation fast and predictable.
🏗️ What goes into the blueprint
- •Trigger: what triggers the automation.
- •Logic: the steps and decisions along the way.
- •Tools and models: what each part of the work does.
- •Action: the final result delivered.
🎯 Practical tip
Draw the flow on paper or in a diagram before opening any tool. If the drawing is confusing, the automation will be even worse—the blueprint is where errors are cheap to fix.
🧭 Where this becomes a path
This step is the whole Track 3 — Solution Design: architecture, choice of tools and models, logic, and prompts.
The solution structure.
What each part does.
Steps and decisions.
Where to go deeper.
🛠️ Step 4 — Build
Build is where the value finally happens: implementing the automation for real, from trigger to action, with integrations and error handling, until it runs reliably without you around. Solid implementation is what makes the automation work on its own.
Build the workflow
From trigger to action
Connect the trigger, steps, and action by following the blueprint. Each part of the diagram becomes a block that does one thing well.
Make reliable
Error handling and testing
Anticipate what could go wrong, add checks, and test with real cases. An automation is only worthwhile if you trust it to run on its own.
🧭 Where this becomes a path
Building is all the Track 4 — Build: environment setup, first end-to-end automation, integrations, and reliability.
The end-to-end workflow.
Connect the systems.
Runs on its own without errors.
Where to go deeper.
💰 Stage 5 — Commercialize
The step that closes the loop. Commercialize is turning the automation you built into a service: packaging the deliverable, pricing it based on the value generated, and selling it to clients. Without this, automation is just a hobby that saves you time; with it, it becomes revenue.
📦 From time saved to revenue
- •Package: turn the automation into a clear offer.
- •Set a price: charge for the value generated, not the hours spent.
- •Deliver and scale: repeat the same solution for many clients.
🎯 Practical tip
If the automation saves a client R$ 7,500/year, it’s worth far more than the hours you spent building it. Price it based on the return it generates for the buyer.
🧭 Where this becomes a path
This step is the whole Track 5 — Sales: package it as a service, price it based on the client’s ROI, deliver it, and scale it.
Turn into a clear offer.
Charge for value.
Sell to many.
Where to go deeper.
🧭 How the 6 tracks follow this map
The entire course fits in this single image: each step on the map corresponds to a track. Tracks 2 through 5 are the five steps in order, Track 1 provides the foundation you’re seeing now, and the Track 6 — Practice apply everything with ready-to-use exercises, prompts, and skills.
🗺️ Map ↔ paths, in one line
Identify → T2 Audit
Map → T2 Audit
Design → T3 Design
Build → T4 Build
Commercialize → T5 Sales
Apply everything → T6 Practice
Identify + Map
Design the solution
Build the flow
Commercialize
Apply at each step
The foundation — you're here
One track for each stage.
T2 → T3 → T4 → T5.
T6 applies everything.
Where you are and where you're going.
✅ Module Summary
Next Track:
Track 2 — Audit & Mapping: find the 10-hour task, measure time and cost, and diagram the as-is → to-be process.