Your first workflow
Start with a task you already understand.
The best first workflow is not the most impressive one. It is the one you repeat often, understand well, and can easily review.
Steps
Pick one repeated task. Good first examples: review a folder of documents, summarize new files, draft replies to messages, prepare a weekly report, turn notes into a checklist, or organize follow-up tasks. Choose something useful but low-risk.
In OOMU, a workflow is a set of visible steps. Start with what the workflow should look at. Then choose what it should prepare. Then decide where the user should review the result.
A simple email workflow might look like this: find messages that need a response, draft replies, show the drafts for review, and wait for the user to send.
Before the workflow runs, review what OOMU plans to do. Check what it will look at. Check what it will prepare. Check where it will ask for approval. If the plan is not right, change it.
A trustworthy agent should be easy to correct before it acts.
Run the workflow and review the output. For the first few runs, stay close. See how the workflow behaves. Adjust the steps. Make the instructions clearer. Remove anything unnecessary.
Good workflows get better through use.
Do not use an AI workflow as a substitute for professional judgment. Use it to remove the repetitive work around judgment. That is the right place to begin.
Closing
If it does, build another.
That is how AI agents become part of real work.
