First Rung ยท initial thinking
Choosing the first workflow worth building around.
The first workflow should be boring in the right way: painful, repeated, hard to coordinate, and valuable enough that solving it makes the second agent easier to justify.
01 the boundary
Where the agent enters, and where it stops
What the agent removes
What stays human
02 what the next agent can skip building read bottom to top
The point is not that Squid AI can build anything. It's choosing the first workflow where an agent can remove enough real work, preserve the right judgment, and make the next agent easier to justify.
Scenarios are illustrative, based on public Squid AI solution areas plus our conversation. The point is the decision pattern, not the specific account assumptions.