Built my first sellable AI automation (and it's way simpler than I thought) I spent weeks overthinking "what AI product should I build" until I talked to a friend who runs a small agency. Her problem: 15 active vendor contracts, all with different renewal dates and notice periods. She's missed two auto-renewal windows this year because the dates were buried in PDFs. So I built this in 6 hours: → Google Drive folder watches for new contract PDFs → Claude extracts: parties, dates, renewal terms, payment terms, notice period → Flags high/medium risk (auto-renew clauses, ambiguous language) → Writes everything to a Google Sheet → Sends Slack alert: "3 contracts need review, 1 high-risk" Her ops team opens the Sheet, scans the terms, marks "Approved" or "Escalate to Legal." That's it. No fancy AI. Just extraction + clean handoff. Pricing: $2,500 setup + $300/mo maintenance. The lesson I'm learning: people don't want "AI magic." They want their messy manual process to disappear. Find the spreadsheet someone updates by hand. Automate that. Sell it. Happy to share the n8n workflow if anyone wants it — it's basically Drive → Claude API → Sheets → Slack.