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The bulk of the computer work for the “knowledge class” is data mangling and transit. Like managing a SaaS app for your sales pipeline inputting results/outcomes of leads, aggregating stuff happening in various another places, uploading lists and connecting other SaaS apps together, which all then generates other data that gets translated to excel (because SaaS BI tools are rarely good enough) and humans analyze it and communicate the data.

Even though we have a million web services there’s still tons of work getting the data in and across them all as they are all silos with niche usecases and different formats.

There’s a reason most Zapier implementations are as crazy as connected Excel sheets

AI bots will remove a ton of this work for sure



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