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Industrial Safety / Compliance
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ID: 100
Score:38/50

OSHA Recordkeeping Accuracy Gap: Manual data entry or supervisor reconstruction can have error rates of 1-4%, turning routine audits into catastrophic penalty events....

Pain Level 10/10

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Education & Childcare
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ID: 114
Score:38/50

Classroom Food Allergy Cross-Reference: Managing snacks vs specific restrictions for 30 children using paper logs is an anaphylaxis risk waiting to happen....

Pain Level 10/10

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Government / Finance
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ID: 171
Score:38/50

Legacy Tax Processing (IRS): Even though the IRS uses state-of-the-art hardware for tax processing, many of our systems run on very old programming languages such as Assembly Lang...

Pain Level 10/10

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Legal / Case Management
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ID: 181
Score:38/50

Massive Scale Chronology (60k Pages): I once had to summarize 60k pages of records from one facility... It was A. Lot. Of. Pages. But I also bill so I had to keep super good records so my ...

Pain Level 10/10

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Legal / PI
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ID: 187
Score:38/50

Damaging Provider Opinions (Non-compliance reporting): Make a note of any differing or damaging opinions... If the client claims they hurt they're back and then never goes to PT after a doctors referral...

Pain Level 10/10

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Government / Admin
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ID: 220
Score:38/50

US Government IE6 Usage: US government. A friend of mine works for the city and they are still using IE6 in 2023....

Pain Level 10/10

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Government / Tax
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ID: 250
Score:38/50

Legacy IRS Tax Processing: Even though the IRS uses... Assembly Language Code (ALC)....

Pain Level 10/10

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Logistics & Shipping
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ID: 104
Score:37/50

Manual Container Status Checks: Bid farewell to manual checks; ensure you are always informed about your shipments' status without any manual effort....

Pain Level 9/10

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Logistics & Supply Chain
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ID: 109
Score:37/50

Text-to-Invoice Supply Chain Debt: Recieving confirmations via text but invoices via email creates a massive reconciliation bottleneck for our warehouse....

Pain Level 9/10

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Finance & Small Biz
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ID: 113
Score:37/50

Independent Contractor 1099 Threshold Alerts: Small business owners often miss the $600 threshold alert, leading to IRS compliance fines....

Pain Level 9/10

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Healthcare
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ID: 116
Score:37/50

HIPAA-Compliant Small Clinic Messaging: Local clinics are still using fax because they can't find a low-cost, HIPAA-compliant messaging alternative....

Pain Level 9/10

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Construction
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ID: 128
Score:37/50

Clash detection in full building models is still a manual process.: Clash detection can save millions in on site reworks and lost time. However, it's still mostly a manual process despite Revit having that capability.....

Pain Level 9/10

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Marketing
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ID: 132
Score:37/50

Tracking real CAC and ROI in ad spend.: Founders constantly say 'I'm spending $X on ads but don't know my real CAC.' that's your cue....

Pain Level 9/10

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Logistics
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ID: 138
Score:37/50

Discrepancies between TMS, ERP, and local spreadsheets.: Same shipment shows up differently in TMS, ERP, and someone’s spreadsheet... People still spend hours just reconciling what’s already supposed to be i...

Pain Level 9/10

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Accounting
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ID: 146
Score:37/50

Lower-level accounting work being automated away by AI.: automation clearing out the manual work and accelerating review isn't going to be a significant change to the control environment... slash the lower l...

Pain Level 9/10

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Healthcare
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ID: 149
Score:37/50

Managing multiple input channels for clinic appointment scheduling.: Your core issue is managing multiple input channels manually. I'd build an n8n system that centralizes all appointment requests into one queue....

Pain Level 9/10

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Manufacturing
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ID: 159
Score:37/50

Shop floor workers ignoring safety data sheets due to PDF overwhelm.: Blaming the shop floor for not reading the manual or safety instructions is the mark of a lazy engineer... need to abstract the necessary points....

Pain Level 9/10

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HVAC
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ID: 163
Score:37/50

Skipping proper load calculations (Manual J) in favor of over-selling equipment.: fuck manual J, it modulates! ...making the system extra shitty for anyone who has to work on it!...

Pain Level 9/10

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Insurance / Healthcare
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ID: 169
Score:37/50

Legacy Healthcare Claims Processing: Think a customer falls over in a store and the massive amount of paperwork and headache that comes from something like that. We take the pain away wit...

Pain Level 9/10

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Legal / Healthcare
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ID: 178
Score:37/50

Summarizing 10,000+ Pages of Medical Records: I have a case containing over 10,000 pages of medical records and need to have them summarized into a chronology... that is an untenable time-suck....

Pain Level 9/10

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Healthcare / Legal
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ID: 183
Score:37/50

Illegible Handwritten Medical Notes (Hieroglyphics): handwritten notes from 2003 that look like hieroglyphics, faxed records you can barely read...

Pain Level 9/10

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Legal / PI
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ID: 188
Score:37/50

Attorney-Directed Treatment Notes in Records: I’ll even notate when the doctor states a patient was referred to them by an attorney....

Pain Level 9/10

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Healthcare / Legal
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ID: 190
Score:37/50

False "No Records" Custodian Responses: Custodians saying there are no records, patient has never been seen at their facility, when I have records of their previous appointments in front of ...

Pain Level 9/10

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Healthcare / Legal Service
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ID: 196
Score:37/50

Manual Status Inquiry Black Hole: no one can take a call, you have to send pigeons to a third party records custodian and hope that they have even heard of the hospital you're trying t...

Pain Level 9/10

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Logistics / Shipping
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ID: 198
Score:37/50

Manual Bill of Lading (BOL) Discrepancies: The amount of time spent fixing manual BOL entries is insane. One typo and the container sits at the port for a week....

Pain Level 9/10

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Healthcare / Admin
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ID: 199
Score:37/50

Strategic Record Custodian Merger Chaos (MRO/Datavant): The merger between MRO and Datavant has made everything a complete disaster. Requests are constantly lost in the hand-off....

Pain Level 9/10

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Healthcare / Finance
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ID: 203
Score:37/50

Manual Record Production Invoicing Friction: I have to wait for them to mail me an invoice, then I have to mail them a check, then they have to mail me the CD. It's 1995 still....

Pain Level 9/10

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Finance / Banking
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ID: 219
Score:37/50

Banking Mainframe/COBOL Reliance: Banking. You might be shocked to learn how much is still running on mainframes and COBOL....

Pain Level 9/10

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Real Estate / Title Insurance
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ID: 223
Score:37/50

ResWare Replacement (Title/Escrow): Somebody who replaces ResWare could make a fortune....

Pain Level 9/10

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Data Engineering / IT
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ID: 229
Score:37/50

Data Engineering "Spreadsheet Hell": It's shared spreadsheet hell, they're in the thousands of rows each... Towards the end of their manual process, they were also doing......

Pain Level 9/10

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Banking / Finance
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ID: 232
Score:37/50

Legacy Banking Software (COBOL): Margin systems and account profile systems are all using COBOL. The issue is that like hardware infrastructure so much has been built on top and aroun...

Pain Level 9/10

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Healthcare
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ID: 235
Score:37/50

Fax Machine Dependency in Canadian Healthcare: The fact that doctors still use fax machines in Canada is crazy to me… they’re just being too lazy to change at this point...

Pain Level 9/10

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Aviation / Government
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ID: 246
Score:37/50

FAA Safety Systems: FAA...

Pain Level 9/10

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Maintenance / FSM
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ID: 102
Score:36/50

Technician Skill-Availability Mapping: Dispatchers manually factor in technician skills and location, creating massive bottlenecks that obscuring operational visibility....

Pain Level 8/10

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Property Management
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ID: 103
Score:36/50

Commercial Invoicing Bottleneck: Invoicing and customer service can sometimes be slow when operating large-scale commercial portfolios....

Pain Level 8/10

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Construction & Zoning
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ID: 106
Score:36/50

Setback Measurement Verification: The city inspection clarified that the setback for my ADU needed to be measured from the eave overhang, not the wall....

Pain Level 8/10

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Logistics & Supply Chain
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ID: 112
Score:36/50

Pallet Deposit Recovery Loss: Lost pallet deposits are costing the average distributor $500/week due to poor manual tracking....

Pain Level 8/10

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Construction
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ID: 119
Score:36/50

MEP Rework Communication Breakdown: Rework due to poor asset tracking accounts for 5-9% of our contract value loss....

Pain Level 8/10

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Logistics
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ID: 122
Score:36/50

Trucking Detention Time Logging: Wait times at shippers aren't being logged accurately, so we're losing out on billable detention pay....

Pain Level 8/10

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Construction
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ID: 126
Score:36/50

All-in-one Construction Platforms are too complex for small contractors.: The reason most digital tools fail for small contractors is they're built by people who've never stood in a ditch... If it takes more than 30 seconds ...

Pain Level 8/10

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Construction
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ID: 130
Score:36/50

Holistic project management and predictive fuckup mitigation.: ...data analysis and predictive fuck up mitigation, blame chains etc. not to mention project compliance and auditing, all very manual processes that c...

Pain Level 8/10

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Data Analytics
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ID: 131
Score:36/50

Monitoring pain signals for automated prospect discovery.: ...people posting about 'can't track ROI,' 'need better reporting,' 'spreadsheet nightmare' - across reddit, linkedin, twitter....

Pain Level 8/10

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Operations
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ID: 136
Score:36/50

Transitioning from spreadsheets to software without losing flexibility.: The spreadsheet-to-software transition is a classic inflection point - you want structure without losing the flexibility you've built....

Pain Level 8/10

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Inventory
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ID: 141
Score:36/50

Sales promising dates straight out of a spreadsheet without real-time inventory visibility.: Seen this blow up when sales is using ERP ATP that ignores the touch time on the warehouse floor... or is sales promising dates straight out of a spre...

Pain Level 8/10

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Data Quality
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ID: 143
Score:36/50

Cleaning the same errors in Excel imports every day.: If you’re importing Excel/CSV into ERP daily, you basically built yourself a manual ETL job whether you meant too or not....

Pain Level 8/10

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Accounting
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ID: 145
Score:36/50

Manual interest posting and bank recons during 2-day month-end close.: On day+1 we post any manual bank interest, make sure banks tie, etc....

Pain Level 8/10

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Accounting
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ID: 147
Score:36/50

Redundant manual data entry causing errors in accounting spreadsheets.: mistakes are caused by either overwork or manual entries... management problem for overpaying someone to manually key stuff in all day long....

Pain Level 8/10

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Healthcare IT
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ID: 150
Score:36/50

Access control drift and inconsistent device security in small clinics.: In healthcare, the problem usually isn’t one catastrophic failure. It’s: •Access control drifting over time •Inconsistent device security......

Pain Level 8/10

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Healthcare Documentation
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ID: 151
Score:36/50

Manual document handling and copied-pasted scribe notes.: A lot of clinics rely on manual uploads, copy-paste workflows, and basic transcription tools that don’t give visibility into where information came fr...

Pain Level 8/10

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Legal
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ID: 155
Score:36/50

Handling intake of personal injury cases with high call volume.: using an AI 'overflow' agent to handle the basic routing so the receptionist can focus on high-level case research....

Pain Level 8/10

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Legal
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ID: 156
Score:36/50

Tracking actual profit vs. time spent on flat-fee cases.: the last thing I want to do is open a separate spreadsheet or app to log minutes for a case I’ve already 'sold' for a flat fee....

Pain Level 8/10

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Manufacturing
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ID: 161
Score:36/50

Manually generating SOP images and transcriptions from video.: The visual component of the video is used for screen capture for adding images to each step (as a manual step in the document generation process)....

Pain Level 8/10

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Manufacturing
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ID: 162
Score:36/50

Designing compliance directly into the workflow instead of external manuals.: design compliance into the shop floor instead of blaming workers for not reading manuals....

Pain Level 8/10

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Enterprise / Finance
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ID: 170
Score:36/50

Reliance on Complex Excel for Critical Components: I have yet to meet a Fortune 500 company that doesn't run a significant amount of important components from inside Microsoft Excel...

Pain Level 8/10

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Real Estate / Retail
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ID: 173
Score:36/50

Manual Paperwork in Retail Accidents: A lot of process is still handled on pen and paper....

Pain Level 8/10

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Healthcare / Data Management
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ID: 184
Score:36/50

Duplicate Page Overload in Medical Records: duplicate pages everywhere, and don't even get me started on trying to figure out which provider actually treated what condition...

Pain Level 8/10

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Healthcare / Legal
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ID: 185
Score:36/50

Incorrect Records Dates and Provider Confusion: half the dates are wrong... my attorney keeps piling on more files and I'm losing my mind...

Pain Level 8/10

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Legal / Ethics
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ID: 191
Score:36/50

Asymmetric Record Production (Plaintiff vs Defense): Custodians providing Defense complete records but missing pages upon pages in their responses to us....

Pain Level 8/10

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Healthcare / Legal
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ID: 193
Score:36/50

Certified Mail-Only Requests: No, we don't accept email, fax, or portal requests you have to submit certified mail requests....

Pain Level 8/10

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Healthcare / Admin
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ID: 195
Score:36/50

Fragmented Record Custodian Shifting (MRO/Datavant): No, we actually don't accept faxes you have to go to this random other company and submit a request there... add Datavant to that and Chartswap too. l...

Pain Level 8/10

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Healthcare / Legal
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ID: 201
Score:36/50

Patient Signature Mismatch Rejections: Rejected because the signature on the HIPAA doesn't *perfectly* match the one they have on file from 5 years ago....

Pain Level 8/10

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Healthcare / Admin
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ID: 202
Score:36/50

Lack of Real-Time Status Transparency: You send the request and it just goes into a black hole for 20 days until you call and find out they haven't even opened the mail yet....

Pain Level 8/10

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Healthcare / Data Management
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ID: 205
Score:36/50

Migration-Induced Data Loss (Lost Requests): Every time these custodians move to a new 'portal', all currently pending requests seem to vanish into thin air....

Pain Level 8/10

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Legal / Data Entry
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ID: 208
Score:36/50

Manual Medication List Entry (Records -> CMS): Manually typing every single medication from the hospital records into our Case Management System is so tedious....

Pain Level 8/10

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Manufacturing / Construction
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ID: 209
Score:36/50

Construction Materials Spreadsheet Drift: Our spreadsheet for tracking material costs hasn't been updated in months because it's too much work to manually enter every invoice....

Pain Level 8/10

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Logistics / Freight Brokerage
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ID: 211
Score:36/50

Freight Quotes via Manual Email/Spreadsheet: Excel spreadsheet with index-match and formatted to show all accessorials with line items adding up together. Textblaze for text macros....

Pain Level 8/10

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Logistics / Trucking
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ID: 214
Score:36/50

Daily Load Tracking via Excel: Right now we are just using an excel spreadsheet to keep up with all of our daily loads. Between the loads we are getting from brokers and our [own].....

Pain Level 8/10

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Healthcare
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ID: 217
Score:36/50

Doctors Using Fax Machines: The fact that doctors still use fax machines in Canada is crazy to me…I get the whole being private and secure because it’s someone’s healthcare data ...

Pain Level 8/10

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Manufacturing
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ID: 221
Score:36/50

Manual Data Recording in Manufacturing: Manufacturing. The amount of data and information that is not gathered, or recorded on paper/excel and never used is enormous....

Pain Level 8/10

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Field Service / Operations
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ID: 227
Score:36/50

Manual Reporting of 150 Field Spreadsheets: I automated a manual process that we used on about 150 spreadsheets submitted from the field....

Pain Level 8/10

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Finance / Professional Services
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ID: 228
Score:36/50

Manual 20-Page Calculation Workflow: My main gripe with this manual process is that a 20 page calc... spreadsheet, stop wasting their time, and move on to learning the next thing....

Pain Level 8/10

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Accounting
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ID: 234
Score:36/50

Public Accounting Software Stagnation: Most software looks like is from the mid 90s, because it basically is. No innovation, poor use of SAAS, charging outrageous fees....

Pain Level 8/10

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Science / Laboratory
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ID: 236
Score:36/50

Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Friction: The lab industry. Please create some laboratory software that is not a total piece of crap and impossible to work with....

Pain Level 8/10

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Aviation
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ID: 238
Score:36/50

Airline Backend Systems: Airlines....

Pain Level 8/10

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Finance / Mortgage
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ID: 243
Score:36/50

Mortgage and Bill Payment Systems: Mortgage and bill payment systems...

Pain Level 8/10

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Aerospace
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ID: 247
Score:36/50

Aerospace Engineering Software: Aerospace software...

Pain Level 8/10

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Healthcare / Finance
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ID: 249
Score:36/50

Regulatory Barriers to Healthcare Innovation: Part of the reason healthcare and finance software is not so ripe for disruption is because they are highly regulated... complying with all the regs w...

Pain Level 8/10

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Public Policy / Real Estate
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ID: 101
Score:35/50

City Council Agenda PDF Hell: Government relations teams spend hours sifting through clunky municipal websites and fragmented PDFs to track zoning and ordinance updates....

Pain Level 7/10

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E-commerce Logistics
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ID: 105
Score:35/50

Fulfillment Scaling Manual Entry: Scaling requires minimal manual entry and fewer fulfillment errors; manual labels are the first bottleneck we hit....

Pain Level 7/10

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Maintenance & Field Services
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ID: 107
Score:35/50

HVAC Van Inventory Chaos: We have a major problem with technicians 'forgetting' to log parts used, leading to stockouts in the field....

Pain Level 7/10

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Finance & Crypto
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ID: 111
Score:35/50

Prediction Market Tax Reporting: Generating a cost-basis for 2000+ tiny Polymarket transactions is manually impossible for an individual....

Pain Level 7/10

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E-commerce
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ID: 117
Score:35/50

E-commerce Ad-Spend vs Revenue Gap: Hours are spent each week manually building reconciliation models because ad platforms don't sync with the warehouse....

Pain Level 7/10

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Legal Services
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ID: 120
Score:35/50

Legal Document Version Fragmentation: We lost two hours yesterday because the partner was editing V3 while I was finishing V4 of the same contract....

Pain Level 7/10

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Maintenance
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ID: 125
Score:35/50

Pest Control Route Inefficiency: Our techs are zig-zagging across the city because our dispatching is still done manually on a map....

Pain Level 7/10

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Construction
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ID: 127
Score:35/50

Tracking locate tickets and document compliance manually.: Small contractors know they need to track locate tickets and document compliance, but the 'solution' is either a massive construction management platf...

Pain Level 7/10

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Finance
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ID: 133
Score:35/50

Separating business and personal finances after years of mixing.: I've been there, and it's a pain to sort out... create a detailed list of every transaction that was business-related....

Pain Level 7/10

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Sales
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ID: 134
Score:35/50

Beginner-friendly CRM for small businesses.: What CRM is easiest for beginners? The spreadsheet usually works fine early on and then suddenly you realize you are spending more time managing it th...

Pain Level 7/10

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Small Business
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ID: 135
Score:35/50

Spending more time managing the spreadsheet than actually using it.: The spreadsheet usually works fine early on and then suddenly you realize you are spending more time managing it than actually using it....

Pain Level 7/10

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Finance
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ID: 137
Score:35/50

Manual data entry for CSV imports and transaction categorization.: I use Expense Sorted to handle CSV imports and auto-categorize transactions so the sheet stays current without manual data entry....

Pain Level 7/10

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Logistics
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ID: 140
Score:35/50

Negotiating flat fees for 3rd party logistics consultants.: If they insist on a % of the savings, make it against actual savings, not what they put into a spreadsheet....

Pain Level 7/10

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Documentation
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ID: 142
Score:35/50

Automating document flow for domestic vs international logistics.: zapier or make for the email part is the usual starting point... for the tracker the honest answer is just a better spreadsheet before you go looking ...

Pain Level 7/10

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Operations
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ID: 144
Score:35/50

Recording and transcribing meetings to create process manuals.: On ALL meeting, record the meeting in your audio app or get something that takes notes for you... create a process manual....

Pain Level 7/10

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Legal
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ID: 148
Score:35/50

Automating contract review and legal assessment in the accounting cycle.: The impacts of legal & operations will be able to be assessed sooner, contract review is something that AI excels at....

Pain Level 7/10

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Healthcare Operations
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ID: 152
Score:35/50

Documenting workflows for remote VAs in healthcare.: How do you actually document workflows for a remote VA to follow?...

Pain Level 7/10

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Legal
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ID: 153
Score:35/50

Automating intake follow-ups and lead management.: Lawmatics can save a lot of manual follow-up and help keep leads from slipping through the cracks....

Pain Level 7/10

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Legal
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ID: 157
Score:35/50

Building custom case management dashboards because standard tools are too bloated.: It is essentially a custom case management dashboard for my practice — basically a lightweight CRM + spreadsheet grid....

Pain Level 7/10

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Legal
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ID: 158
Score:35/50

Automated deadline calculators and statue links within the workflow.: I also added a built-in 'toolbox' pane for stuff I use constantly (date/deadline calculator, settlement calculator, etc.)....

Pain Level 7/10

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Manufacturing
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ID: 160
Score:35/50

Capturing uptime and pieces-per-hour on manual machines.: With manual machining there’s a lot more to it than ‘how long was the machine powered on?’... How about ‘how many pieces did we process per hour?’...

Pain Level 7/10

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HVAC
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ID: 164
Score:35/50

Manual lookup of energy per therm and meter clocking for combustion analysis.: The full process... includes looking up the energy per therm for your supplier and clocking the meter....

Pain Level 7/10

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Data Processing / Administrative
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ID: 167
Score:35/50

Messy Data Format Conversion: AI tool for converting messy data formats into clean tables...

Pain Level 7/10

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Legal / Healthcare / Finance
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ID: 172
Score:35/50

Regulated Industry Software Stagnation: Part of the reason healthcare and finance software is not so ripe for disruption is because they are highly regulated....

Pain Level 7/10

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Logistics / Transportation
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ID: 177
Score:35/50

Manual Route Planning for Small Fleets: In smaller fleets, manual route planning and spreadsheets seem manageable. Picture this: if you have one vehicle with 5 stops that’s about 120 differe...

Pain Level 7/10

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Healthcare / Staffing
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ID: 179
Score:35/50

Reliance on Retired RNs for Record Summaries: Find a retired RN case manger and pay them. My mom did this....

Pain Level 7/10

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Healthcare / Legal
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ID: 186
Score:35/50

Missing Actual Medical Images (Not just Reports): If Imaging is mentioned, make sure you get a copy of the actual images, not just reports. If the records are being sent for expert review, the doctor ...

Pain Level 7/10

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Healthcare / Admin
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ID: 192
Score:35/50

Fax-Only Request Requirements in 2024: No, we only accept faxes because the last 40 years of technological advancement has never happened....

Pain Level 7/10

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Healthcare / Legal
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ID: 194
Score:35/50

Reproductive Health Attestation Multiplication: don’t forget the 8 different requests for reproductive health attestations... We stopped using the attestations... But they want us to revise our hipa...

Pain Level 7/10

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Waste Management / Logistics
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ID: 197
Score:35/50

Waste Hauling Surcharge Manual Auditing: Are we over relying on manual admin for surcharges? ... auditing fuel surcharges manually every week across 50 trucks....

Pain Level 7/10

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Healthcare / Legal
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ID: 200
Score:35/50

Clinical vs Billing Record Disconnect: I asked for complete records and only got clinical. Now I have to pay another $25 and wait 3 weeks for billing....

Pain Level 7/10

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Healthcare / Finance
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ID: 204
Score:35/50

Check-Only Payment Requirements: A major hospital system that doesn't take credit cards and requires physical checks for records? Ridiculous....

Pain Level 7/10

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Legal / Healthcare
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ID: 207
Score:35/50

Multi-Year Redundant Record Requests: Requested the same records three times over three years because the first two sets were 'old' or the case dragged on....

Pain Level 7/10

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Logistics / Warehousing
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ID: 210
Score:35/50

Legacy Warehouse Management (WMS) Terminal Friction: Seeing people navigate green-screen terminal emulators for warehouse picking in 2024 is heartbreaking. The training alone takes 2 months....

Pain Level 7/10

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Logistics / Port Operations
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ID: 213
Score:35/50

Container/DO Organization and Tracking: I just want some ideas of how some of you guys organize and keep track of all your containers / DO whether that includes software or anything....

Pain Level 7/10

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Laboratory / Science
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ID: 218
Score:35/50

Inefficient Laboratory Software: The lab industry. Please create some laboratory software that is not a total piece of crap and impossible to work with....

Pain Level 7/10

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HR / Enterprise
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ID: 225
Score:35/50

Workday Frustration: Fuck Workday....

Pain Level 7/10

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Inventory Management / Supply Chain
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ID: 226
Score:35/50

Standalone Demand Forecasting Spreadsheet: I've built a spreadsheet that identifies five classes based on annual sales volume... We signed up for an inventory forecasting tool, but kept our spr...

Pain Level 7/10

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Small Business / Enterprise Software
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ID: 231
Score:35/50

Small Business ERP Adoption Friction: Once you have the number of hours, just multiply... spreadsheet cost instead of jumping straight to tools....

Pain Level 7/10

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Real Estate / Legal
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ID: 233
Score:35/50

Antiquated Escrow Software (ResWare): Escrow software (ResWare)...

Pain Level 7/10

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Public Sector / Education
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ID: 237
Score:35/50

Public Library Software Inefficiency: Public library software is all amazingly bad; very poor feature sets, lousy performance, mostly written in ancient versions of Java...

Pain Level 7/10

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Hospitality
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ID: 239
Score:35/50

Hotel Management Systems (AS400): Hotel systems (AS400)...

Pain Level 7/10

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Logistics / Trucking
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ID: 242
Score:35/50

Trucking/Logistics Software Fragmentation: Trucking software...

Pain Level 7/10

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Insurance
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ID: 244
Score:35/50

Insurance Legacy Systems: Insurance software...

Pain Level 7/10

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Compliance / Legal
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ID: 248
Score:35/50

Risks and Compliance Manual Processes: Risk and compliance (manual process, pen and paper for incidents like a customer falls over)...

Pain Level 7/10

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Tech / Regulation
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ID: 251
Score:35/50

Small Agile Team Barrier in Regulated Industries: You can't have a small agile team spin up a new product in like 6 months with a little financing... complying with all the regs will make it take long...

Pain Level 7/10

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Manufacturing
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ID: 108
Score:34/50

Manual BOM Data Migration Friction: The expectation is often for data management to be automated rather than a continuous cycle of manual check-ins and check-outs....

Pain Level 6/10

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Property Management
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ID: 115
Score:34/50

HOA Maintenance Log Fragments: HOA boards are struggling with fragmented maintenance logs spread across three different residents' private emails....

Pain Level 6/10

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Maintenance
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ID: 121
Score:34/50

Landscaping Crew Labor Tracking: Tracking labor hours on paper logs results in a 10% discrepancy when it comes to payroll every month....

Pain Level 6/10

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SaaS Ops
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ID: 124
Score:34/50

Subscription Billing Overlaps: We're manually adjusting prorated invoices every month because our current tool doesn't handle partial seats....

Pain Level 6/10

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Construction
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ID: 129
Score:34/50

Scheduling tied to CRM/Payroll bottlenecks.: the most efficient are the ones tied to your CRM or project management/job costing/payroll systems (depending where your manual process bottlenecks ar...

Pain Level 6/10

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Logistics
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ID: 139
Score:34/50

Prototyping optimization hubs in Excel because tools are too rigid.: A lot of people prototype hub consolidation logic in Excel first... simple spreadsheet model might be enough before jumping into full optimization too...

Pain Level 6/10

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Legal
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ID: 154
Score:34/50

Auditing intake processes to make firms leaner.: If you're bored, maybe ask if you can help 'audit' their intake process. Owners love it when someone looks for ways to make the firm leaner....

Pain Level 6/10

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HVAC
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ID: 165
Score:34/50

Manual duct sizing using charts (Manual D) takes too long.: There are charts in manual D... find the values given trace across to the intersection of the unknown value....

Pain Level 6/10

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HR / Recruiting
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ID: 168
Score:34/50

AI Interview Copilot: AI interview copilot...

Pain Level 6/10

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No-code / Data Management
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ID: 174
Score:34/50

Two-way No-code Data Sync: Two-way data sync tool for Airtable, Notion, Webflow...

Pain Level 6/10

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Healthcare / Data Management
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ID: 180
Score:34/50

Irrelevant Document Noise in Hospital Records: Usually you can skip a lot of records... like flowsheets, orders, patient education... So a 5000 page hospital record may only have 300 pages of recor...

Pain Level 6/10

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Legal / Finance
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ID: 182
Score:34/50

Detailed Billing for Record Review: Make sure if YOU are doing it to bill really well. For example: read and analyze medical records... (357 of 10,000 pages)....

Pain Level 6/10

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Legal / Admin
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ID: 189
Score:34/50

Manual Highlighting of Wage Loss Claims: I highlight radiology records, procedures/surgeries, and any days of works missed if they have a loss wage claim....

Pain Level 6/10

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Healthcare / Finance
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ID: 206
Score:34/50

Predatory "No Record" Response Fees: Charging us $30 just to tell us that the patient wasn't there is a total scam....

Pain Level 6/10

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Logistics / Supply Chain
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ID: 212
Score:34/50

Inbound Purchase Order Spreadsheets: In the spreadsheet I include shipping details provided by the supplier / frieghtforwader. I can track the container number and vessel fine....

Pain Level 6/10

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Logistics / Billing
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ID: 216
Score:34/50

Manual Surcharge Administration: Are we over relying on manual admin for surcharges?...

Pain Level 6/10

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Landscaping / Small Business
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ID: 222
Score:34/50

Lack of Instant Quote in Landscaping CRM: lawn care, our CRM app competitions are just scheduling, quote, invoicing mostly. We are the only one pretty sure has an instant quote system...

Pain Level 6/10

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Asset Management
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ID: 230
Score:34/50

Manual Asset Reporting Refresh: Cycles through 300 cell values, updates 15 graphs/visuals and 6 tables, takes each asset and......

Pain Level 6/10

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Manufacturing
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ID: 240
Score:34/50

Manufacturing Software (IFS/Infor): Manufacturing software (IFS, Infor)...

Pain Level 6/10

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HR / Recruitment
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ID: 241
Score:34/50

Recruitment Software (Bullhorn): Recruitment software (Bullhorn)...

Pain Level 6/10

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Retail / Grocery
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ID: 245
Score:34/50

Grocery Store POS Systems: Grocery store software...

Pain Level 6/10

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Media & Creative
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ID: 110
Score:33/50

WAV Metadata Bulk Tagging: Batch editing metadata for existing WAV files without re-exporting is a total nightmare with current tools....

Pain Level 5/10

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Small Business
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ID: 118
Score:33/50

Pet Groomer Scheduling Conflicts: Double bookings are common because we track our schedules on a physical whiteboard in the shop....

Pain Level 5/10

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Healthcare
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ID: 123
Score:33/50

Dental Office Patient Intake Gaps: Manual intake forms lead to 15-minute delays for every new patient arrival....

Pain Level 5/10

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HVAC
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ID: 166
Score:33/50

Redundant data entry for equipment commissioning.: It will usually be in the install manual... I don't bother with such things unless there's an issue....

Pain Level 5/10

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Administrative / Productivity
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ID: 175
Score:33/50

AI Meeting Productivity Chrome Extension: AI-powered Chrome extension for meeting productivity...

Pain Level 5/10

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Logistics / Admin
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ID: 215
Score:33/50

Manual Document Dispatch Logic: Document Dispatch: You need a 'watch folder' setup. The logic is: when a file named [ShipmentID].pdf lands in the folder -> the script looks up [custo...

Pain Level 5/10

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HR / Recruiting
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ID: 224
Score:33/50

Recruiter Reliance on Bullhorn: Recruiters still use bullhorn...

Pain Level 5/10

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Real Estate / Design
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ID: 176
Score:32/50

AI Home Redesign Visualizer: AI home redesign visualizer...

Pain Level 4/10

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