Business automation sounds like something only large companies do, but the best place to start is usually a small, repetitive task that already costs your team real time every week.
Start by listing the tasks your team repeats without much variation: sending the same follow-up email, copying data between two systems, generating the same report every Friday. These repetitive, rules-based tasks are the easiest and safest to automate first.
Next, map the exact steps of that one process before writing any code or choosing any tool. If you can't describe every step precisely, the process isn't ready to automate yet.
Then automate that single process end-to-end before moving to the next one. Small, working wins build the case (and the internal know-how) for tackling bigger automation projects later.
The goal isn't to automate everything at once. It's to free up a few real hours a week, prove the value, and build from there.