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Everyone talks about automating takeoff or scheduling or RFIs. cool, those matter. but in my experience the single most time-consuming manual task in precon that directly affects project outcomes is bid leveling. 30 proposals, buried exclusions, vague qualifications, scope gaps you don't catch until six weeks in.

feels like it's underrated as an automation target. curious if PMs and precon folks feel the same or if i'm just in a particularly painful situation.

feel like everyone only uses whatsapp for retail spam, but has anyone successfully set it up for b2b saas/ customer success?

im trying to build a flow where when a user hits a milestone in our app (or goes dormant for a week), our crm triggers a whatsapp check in. but the catch is, if they reply, i dont want my small cs team instantly flooded with unstructured chats. i need an ai agent to act as a first touchpoint, figure out what they want (tech support vs plan upgrade), and then route it to a shared inbox only if it needs a human.

meta direct api seems way too technical to wire up all that routing logic myself. anyone running a setup like this?

Mine occured at 11pm on a tuesday after applying to 8 things manually in one sitting. i uploaded my resume to a workday form, watched it parse everything wrong, spent 25 minutes correcting it field by field, hit submit, then immediately got an automated rejection email. 25 minutes one email. 11pm. the rejection came before i even closed the tab. i sat there for a moment and then just started looking up alternatives by thursday i was set up on tsenta. the first week was slow but by week 3 i was getting more responses than ive ever gotten in any previous job search. the workday 11pm rejection is what finally broke me. curious what everyones breaking point was.

We use React Hook Form throughout. During manual passes, Chrome autofill and password managers populate fields visually, but RHF state stays empty because no input event fires, so validation blocks me on a form that looks complete. I understand the cause; React owns the value via synthetic events, and setting the DOM value directly bypasses onChange. For automated coverage we have Playwright, so this is specifically the by-hand iteration loop. The only reliable fix I've found is dispatching a real input event after setting values; the extension that does this for me is QuickForm, which is Chrome only and is admittedly one more dependency. Before that I retyped a dozen fields per reload. Is anyone seeding controlled forms more cleanly in development, for instance a dev-only helper that hydrates the form in non-prod builds?

Been doing this a while and the pattern is everyone builds the cool pipeline that runs weekly and saves 20 min while ignoring the dumb 30-second task they do 40 times a day. the boring data entry, the form filling, the copy paste between two systems that dont talk. it doesnt get automated cause its too small to justify a project and too frequent to ignore, so it just taxes everyone forever.

i finally clawed some of mine back with record-and-replay extension for the forms i fill constantly (quickform, not a real rpa replacement, just a per person band aid, chrome only), still felt dumb i tolerated it for like two years first. whats the smallest most frequent thing in your workflow thats never been worth automating but absolutely should be? tell me im not the only one.

been searching for 6 weeks and my routine is all over the place. some days I spend 4 hours and some days I do nothing and I can't figure out which approach is actually better. Mine right now: morning i review whatever tsenta sent overnight, handle any needs-you items, then 2 hours of interview prep or networking in the afternoons. evenings i try to avoid looking at anything job search related bc it kills my sleep. but i feel like im missing smth or not being intentional enough. whats ur actual structure? not the ideal version, the real one.