Some clips from the Podcast Ep1! You can tell Sameera is excited to teach! She has a vision for the future...

Until recently automation required writing custom programs, scripts, and database code. Here’s something that might surprise people who are new to automation: The data systems that make today’s AI automation possible were developed over 25 years ago. Why is that? 🤔🧐 Because “automation” isn’t new. When data needs to be moved (extracted), or changed (transformed), and sent to a different system (loaded), it is packaged and delivered in the same way it has been for years. The packaging and delivery is the ❤️ heart of automation. But what has changed are the tools that process the data once it’s delivered. With AI automation, Zapier (or Make.com, or n8n) handles the extraction, transformation, and loading. We don’t have to write a single line of code. The platform does it all. And it does it all more accurately, exponentially faster, and much cheaper. Today’s automation is a bargain. We just need to learn a tool and drag little modules of instructions onto the screen. How cool is that? 😊 — Did you know automation had this kind of history? Drop a comment. I’d love to know what surprised you most 👇

So we all know we have to learn by DOING as much as by reading and consuming information. I’ve been thinking about what was my first AI automation project I did for learning. For my first project I used manychats on my Instagram. Even that simple app felt odd and I didn’t feel confident configuring it. What I learned from doing that first test years ago, was just how much I had to anticipate about user behavior to ensure the automation would execute properly. Would I do it again? Yes. Would I have been more confident if I understood how to plan AI Automation projects ? Absolutely! What was your first project and what did you learn?

I'm researching an AI Automation roadmap for a Real Estate Client. I was asked "What makes an AI automation complex?" The answer is not obvious to me, I know that Zapier is less complicated than Make.com but I don't know what criteria distinguish complex vs. simple AI Automation.