[throwaway20371]

That's basically what the do-nothing script is. The difference is that before you write any automation, you document all the steps in the script. Right there - when you've got it all written down, and no automation work has been done yet - that in itself is a very valuable piece of work. Now you can point anyone in the company to that script, and they can all accomplish the task without having to figure it out for themselves. You can now scale that process N times (N = the number of people in your company). Just writing down the steps has become a force-multiplier of repeatable work. Then as you begin automating each step, people automatically receive the benefit of that automation. Because the documented steps and the automation are in the exact same place, both will always be up-to-date.