[Verse 1]
Sarah's team just got approval, budget's glowing green
Quarter million dollars for the fastest machine
To automate the billing process, seventeen steps long
But nobody asked the question that we should ask along
[Chorus]
Before you code, before you buy
Ask the question: Tell me why
Are we spending six figures bright
On a process that ain't right?
Think before you automate
Don't seal a broken fate
Are we building golden chains
Around our biggest pains?
[Verse 2]
Every Tuesday morning, Jim prints out the forms
Scans them to the server through digital storms
Types the data twice because the fields don't match
Now we want computers for this crazy catch
[Chorus]
Before you code, before you buy
Ask the question: Tell me why
Are we spending six figures bright
On a process that ain't right?
Think before you automate
Don't seal a broken fate
Are we building golden chains
Around our biggest pains?
[Bridge]
Alignment starts with thinking straight
Not systems that perpetuate
The chaos we've been living through
Question first, then build anew
[Verse 3]
What if billing happened when the service ends?
What if customers could pay without depends
On seventeen bureaucratic hoops to jump?
Sometimes the best automation is to dump
[Final Chorus]
Before you code, before you buy
Ask the question: Tell me why
Are we spending six figures bright
On a process that ain't right?
Aligned thinking comes before
Aligned systems at the core
Don't automate the mess we made
Think first, then build the upgrade
[Outro]
Six figures on a ghost
Question what matters most