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Ask your assistant to build it

You do not build workflows in Cue-Queue. You describe the work, and your assistant sets it up: the instructions, the places material goes, and the steps where you decide. The better the description, the better the result, and it can always be improved later.

What to tell it

A good description answers four questions. You do not need all of them in one message; your assistant will ask for what is missing.

What is the job? The outcome, not the steps. “Find ten strong candidates for this role”, “keep our supplier price list up to date”, “draft three posts a week”.
What does it start from? A document, a spreadsheet, a website, an email, last month’s version. Attach it or say where it is.
Where do you decide? The points where a person has to look before the work goes on. “Show me the shortlist before contacting anyone.” “Nothing gets posted until I approve it.”
What does good look like? What you would praise or send back. Examples help most of all.

Here’s the job description for the integration architect role. Set up a candidate search: find people who match, show me a shortlist of ten with a line on each, and don’t contact anyone until I’ve said yes to them.

What happens next

Your assistant writes the instructions down in your workspace, creates whatever the job needs, and tells you what it has made. Read it back if you like; it is written for people as much as for assistants. Then it starts, or waits for you to say go.

From then on the job has a name, and a sentence runs it:

Run another round of the candidate search.

How’s the candidate search going?

Improving it

When something comes back wrong, say so, and say it as a rule rather than a one-off:

From now on, leave out anyone who hasn’t worked in the last two years.

Your assistant updates the instructions, so every later session starts out knowing it, whichever assistant or colleague runs it. You can also ask for a job to improve itself:

After each run, note anything that went badly, and read those notes before the next one.

For a team

If the job belongs to your team rather than to you, say so, and it is set up in the team’s space where colleagues and their assistants can use it.