The fastest way to waste an AI budget is to start with a platform decision. Teams spend a quarter comparing vendors and drawing architecture diagrams before a single task leaves anyone’s plate.
Pick the boring one
Choose a workflow that happens every day, follows clear rules and annoys the people who do it. Quote requests, invoice matching and ticket triage are good candidates. Strategy decks are not.
Ship, then generalise
Once one agent is live and measured, the second one is cheaper. You know where your data lives, which approvals matter and what your team trusts. That is the real platform, and it is built from evidence instead of slides.