When this fits before a full rebuild
Lots of spreadsheet pain vanishes once event-driven glue exists between systems you trust. Automation buys breathing room until a SvelteKit surface is warranted.
Typical patterns
- Approvals routed with audit trails tied to Salesforce/HubSpot/Notion truths
- Nightly ingestion from brokers, carriers, landlords — cleaned before finance sees it
- Guardrails so human edits never skip compliance checks accidentally
What we steer away from
Fragile Zapier spaghetti with zero tests. Automation should be observable — logs,dashboards, escalation paths baked in alongside the happy path.