Overview
The best starting point for an agentic system is not a fashionable capability or an elaborate prompt. It is a recurring activity that consumes time, creates friction, or delays useful work. The central design question is: Where is time being spent repeatedly, and what usable tool or workflow could reduce that burden?
This shifts attention from novelty to operational value. Instead of asking an agent to "build something interesting," define a problem that already exists in the work. The resulting automation can then be judged by whether it produces an artifact that is actually usable.