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The Workflow Automation Margin Curve: Why Day 2 Economics Decide Agency Profitability
Agencies that treat workflow automation as a build-and-ship service capture only the setup fee, while those that engineer for the Day 2 problem, ongoing monitoring, error handling, and expansion discovery, convert it into a recurring retainer.
By InnovaAI ResearchPublished Updated
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58/100Agencies that treat workflow automation as a build-and-ship service capture only the setup fee, while those that engineer for the Day 2 problem, ongoing monitoring, error handling, and expansion discovery, convert it into a recurring retainer. The margin curve bends upward when you model expansion revenue from the client's actual process inventory, not from assumed category potential.