The best first automation isn’t the most ambitious one — it’s the most annoying one. Look for a task your team repeats every day that involves moving information from one tool to another by hand.
Map the trigger (what starts the task), the steps (what has to happen), and the destination (where the result needs to end up). That’s your first n8n workflow. Ship it, watch it run for a week, then look for the next one.
Small, specific workflows compound. A handful of them running quietly in the background is worth more than one enormous automation nobody fully understands.