Retire automations that no longer fit the business

An automation built for how your business worked in the past can quietly become a liability once the business changes shape. Old rules keep firing even after the reason for them is gone.

This matters because nobody enjoys deleting something they built, so outdated automations tend to just keep running in the background, sending messages that no longer make sense or filing things in a place nobody checks anymore. Every automation you keep alive needs upkeep, and upkeep spent on something you have outgrown is upkeep you are not spending on what matters now. Deleting the ones that no longer fit is not wasted work — it is honest maintenance. I ask myself, for each automation I still run, whether I'd build it the same way today, and I've retired more than one after admitting the honest answer was no.

Ask, for each automation, whether you would build it again today given how the business actually runs now.

Try this today: pick your oldest automation and ask honestly whether it still matches how you work, then retire it if the answer is no.