Automation is usually sold as time saved. The more reliable framing is errors avoided, because the cost of retyping the same booking into three systems is rarely the typing. It is the one time in forty that the figures do not match and somebody spends an afternoon working out why.
That means the interesting part of an automation project is never the happy path. It is what happens when the third system is down, when a record arrives half complete, or when two people edit the same thing at once. An automation with no failure handling does not remove manual work, it relocates it to the moment you least want it.
The industry pages below start from the workflows that genuinely repeat in each sector, rather than from a list of tools we could connect.