Keep a human eye on anything touching money

Automations save time on plenty of tasks, but anything involving money deserves a human check before it goes final. A person should confirm the amount, the recipient, and the reason, even if everything else about the process is automated.

This matters because money mistakes are expensive and hard to undo quietly. An automation that sends the wrong invoice or processes the wrong refund does not just cost the amount itself — it costs the trust of the person on the other end, and trust is much harder to rebuild than a payment is to reverse. A quick human glance before anything money-related goes out catches the kind of mistake an automation has no way of recognizing on its own. I build that glance into the process itself, because I've noticed the easiest checks are the first ones people skip when they're in a hurry.

Build the pause into the process itself, so skipping the check takes effort rather than being the easy default.

Try this today: find one money-related step in your automations that currently runs without a human glance, and add that check in.