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.