100 Planning patterns · seven business areas

Find a useful Planning pattern before you scope the build.

Planning patterns are ideas for recurring work to explore. They are not products, offers, or implementation recommendations. Compare all 100 Planning patterns across seven business areas. Each separates what AI could prepare from the person who decides and the record that remains. Use one to choose recurring, bounded work worth mapping.

Updated 22 July 2026

Prepared by AgenticMotion by Qualiteh · Reviewed by Mladen Ranković

Selection check

Prefer bounded, reviewable work over an ambitious label.

A useful opportunity usually has

  • The situation recurs often enough for the team to recognise it.
  • The input and authoritative record can be named.
  • AI can prepare a draft, summary, comparison, classification, or route for review.
  • One role can approve, hold, edit, reject, or escalate the prepared work.
  • The approved consequence and the record that remains are explicit.

Pause when the proposal depends on

  • The workflow is rare, undefined, or changes completely each time.
  • Nobody owns the decision or the authoritative record is unclear.
  • The proposal depends on credentials, unnecessary sensitive data, or broad access.
  • A mistake would create an unreviewed customer, financial, legal, or system commitment.
  • Success is framed as a guaranteed saving or outcome instead of something observable.

One Planning pattern from each area

Read the decision boundary, not just the automation name.

AI preparation is deliberately separate from the named human decision. Regional, contractual, tax, policy, and operational requirements still need verification in the real workflow.

  1. Sales & CRM

    AM-017

    Follow-up reminder drafting

    Follow-ups forgotten

    AI could prepare
    Draft follow-up messages
    Human decision
    Rep approves send
    Expected record
    Logged follow-up
    Boundary
    Human sends every message.
  2. Marketing & content

    AM-029

    Blog/article drafting from source

    Wants to publish, no time

    AI could prepare
    Draft article from source
    Human decision
    Founder edits/approves
    Expected record
    Logged draft
    Boundary
    Editorial approval; no plagiarism.
  3. Proposals & client delivery

    AM-022

    Proposal first-draft assembly

    Proposals slow

    AI could prepare
    Draft proposal from template + inputs
    Human decision
    Founder edits/approves
    Expected record
    Logged proposal version
    Boundary
    No auto-send; human signs off.
  4. Finance & bookkeeping

    AM-043

    Payment reconciliation

    Matching payments manually

    AI could prepare
    Draft matched + flagged exceptions
    Human decision
    Bookkeeper approves
    Expected record
    Logged reconciliation
    Boundary
    Exceptions surfaced, not auto-cleared.
  5. Customer service

    AM-049

    Support-ticket triage

    Tickets pile up

    AI could prepare
    Draft categorisation + priority + suggested reply
    Human decision
    Agent approves
    Expected record
    Logged triage
    Boundary
    Human sends replies.
  6. Manufacturing & quality

    AM-069

    Quality-checklist review

    Deliverable quality varies

    AI could prepare
    Draft QA findings
    Human decision
    Reviewer approves
    Expected record
    Logged QA log
    Boundary
    Findings indicative.
  7. People & knowledge

    AM-076

    Internal FAQ/knowledge base

    Same internal questions

    AI could prepare
    Draft KB articles
    Human decision
    Owner approves
    Expected record
    Logged article
    Boundary
    Human validates accuracy.

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