I spent days testing tools, trying to build a simple AI workflow automation setup, and it was way harder than it should have been. What is AI Workflow Automation? AI workflow automation is the process of using AI tools to connect, trigger, and execute tasks across apps without manual intervention. In theory, it should simplify work. In reality, most tools make it fragmented. Built a lead routing workflow last week that should've taken two hours. New form submission comes in, gets scored, lands in HubSpot, pings the right Slack channel. Done this before. Should've been an afternoon. Took three days. Not because it was hard, because I kept convincing myself the next tool would be cleaner. Got halfway through in one platform, hit some friction, jumped to the next one. By day two I had half-finished automations in four different tools and a creeping feeling that most of the "AI automation" category is just the same three features in different packaging.…