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Weeks to automate something? Anyone experienced would be able to automate most workflows in a couple of days top.

You're right -- we should have written days to weeks.

What's interesting here is that large companies like UI Path charge thousands of dollars to build a single robot for companies.. I wonder if that large up-front expense will still be necessary in this new world

That's crazy. We usually create robots and most of the time we charge less than a thousand USD.

We have a lot of tooling in place now so most things take minutes. The harder step is getting the data in the client's infrastructure

When you say "getting the data in the client's infrastructure", do you mean self-hosting the robots? or something else?

No. Getting the data on the client's DB, filestore, or similar. For some ERPs we create insert queries, others have import functions.

I've edited the text above to say "days or even weeks".

thank you!!

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