01Everyone is right, and none of the numbers match.
Finance counts customers one way, Sales another, and the product team a third. Each definition is defensible on its own, which is exactly why the meeting ends without a number anyone believes — and why nobody can say which workflows are actually costing you.
02Every workflow, and where it stalls.
A Perception is a definition you write once — a team, a role, a customer segment, a unit of work — that every report, query and agent reads. With one model sitting over every connected tool, the work itself becomes visible: which workflows cross which teams, where handoffs sit waiting, how long each step actually takes, and what that time is worth. Not a survey of what people think happens. What the systems already recorded.
03Automate what is worth automating, and prove it worked.
Ranked by what they cost, how often they run and how mechanical they are, the workflows worth handing to AI stop being a matter of opinion. And because an automated workflow keeps being measured against the model it came from, the claim stops being “we deployed AI” and becomes “this took nine days, it now takes two, and here is the month it changed.”