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Start here — Automation
Wiring an AI model into an unattended automation. Walk the automation-specialist path, then open the automation workflow testing kit to package shadow runs, canary suite, and runbook.
Role
Automation
First step
Walk the automation specialist learning path.
Estimated time
~200 min
3-minute orientation
Skim this before opening the first lesson. Estimated time for the full role path: ~200 minutes.
- Learn
- Read structured-output, pricing-references, testing-ai-models.
- Practise
- Build a shortlist and capture a pricing reference for cost projection.
- Test
- Run automation-workflow-testing + automation-robustness against your real schema.
- Produce
- Ship a runbook paired with an automation risk checklist + external test plan.
First route list
Your first route list
Open these in order. Every route already exists in the product — Start Here is an entry point, not a parallel surface.
Learning path
Automation specialist learning path
Sequenced automation-specialist lessons and exercises.
First lesson
Structured output
Distinguish JSON mode, structured output, tool calling.
First exercise
Build first shortlist
Capture a /select URL the team can re-open before each release.
Lab playbook
Automation workflow testing
Test the model inside the loop — retries, parsers, regression.
Workflow kit
Automation workflow testing kit
Single Markdown work document bundling the automation flow.
Resource finder
Open automation specialist resources
Every resource tagged for automation specialists.
What you will produce
Completion is the artifacts the path puts in your hands — not a certificate, badge, or progress bar.
What this does not promise
- Guarantee automation reliability.
- Improve search-engine traffic or organic rankings.
- Substitute for human review on customer-facing surfaces.
- Approve the pipeline as ready for production traffic.
How Start Here works
- No accounts, no sign-in, no quiz scoring. Picking a role opens links — it does not save state about the reader.
- No progress tracking. There is no completion bar, no certificate, no badge. Completion is the artifacts the path puts in your hands.
- No personalization. Two readers who click the same card see the same content; no recommendation engine runs against the reader.
- No model recommendations. The role pages route into learning workflows; which model fits the workload is the reader's decision after the testing step.
- No SEO ranking guarantees, no production-readiness guarantees, no compliance certification. Start Here is a navigation aid, not a promise about outcomes.
Next step
Open the first route
Start with the learning path, or jump to the kit / finder if you already know the shape of the work.