Chain small workflows instead of one giant one

Instead of building one enormous workflow that tries to handle an entire process start to finish, break it into a chain of smaller ones that hand off to each other. One workflow handles the intake, another handles the follow-up, another handles the final wrap-up.

A single giant workflow becomes fragile — one small change anywhere inside it risks breaking something unrelated three steps away, and testing it means testing everything at once. I learned this the hard way after one change I made rippled somewhere I never expected. A chain of smaller workflows can each be tested, paused, or fixed on its own without touching the rest. It also mirrors how most real processes actually work: separate stages, each with its own logic, passing a case along when it's ready.

Think of it as building with blocks you can rearrange later, rather than pouring one slab of concrete you're stuck with.

Try this today: look at your longest workflow and find one natural breaking point where it could split into two smaller ones.