Demo Latch for Yourself | Getting Started
A guide to get started
What should you record first?
Let us offer some suggestions based on your function:
What kind of function?
- Operations: The work behind the customer-facing queue — fulfilment, scheduling, exceptions.
- Customer service: The customer-facing queue — tickets, escalations, refunds, renewals.
- Sales & marketing: Pipeline, campaigns, qualification, proposals, handoffs to delivery.
- Finance & accounting: Close, reconciliation, billing, collections, reporting.
- Something else: Anything at all — these work whatever you spend your day on.
- Update a tracker Aim for 5 minutes
- Prepare a status report Aim for 5 minutes
Then ask your AI assistant…
Write an SOP for this that includes the exceptions I described, not just the standard path.Which steps in what I just recorded depend on one specific person?Where in this process am I entering the same information more than once?
- Triage a support request Aim for 5 minutes
Then ask your AI assistant…
Write up the criteria I'm actually using to decide when to make an exception to policy.Develop a step-by-step guide a new hire could follow on their first day.Where am I looking up the same customer information in more than one system?
- Qualify an inbound lead Aim for 5 minutes
- Personalize an outreach message Aim for 5 minutes
Then ask your AI assistant…
Turn this into qualification criteria explicit enough for someone else to apply.Which parts of this process are just moving data between systems?What did I check that isn't in our documented qualification framework?
- Review an expense submission Aim for 5 minutes
- Prepare an invoice Aim for 5 minutes
Then ask your AI assistant…
Document how I work through this, including the order I check things and when I escalate.Where did what I just did diverge from our written procedure?Which of these steps are mechanical enough to hand to someone more junior?
- How you typically start your day Aim for 5 minutes
- The thing people always ask you how to do Aim for 5 minutes
- Something you do weekly that only you know Aim for 5 minutes
- A report or update you assemble by hand Aim for 5 minutes
- Showing someone new how to do one task Aim for 5 minutes
Then ask your AI assistant…
Write up what I just did and why each step matters.Which of these steps could run automatically before I sit down?What did I do that I'd have forgotten to mention if you'd just asked me?
Rolling this out to a team
One recording is useful. A team's worth is a different thing entirely.
Everything above works on a single machine with a free account. What changes when several people record is that you stop looking at one process and start seeing how work actually moves between them.
Example workspace
Company insights
- 148 recordings across 12 workspaces
- 63 Workflows modeled 11 added in the last 90 days
- 291 Decisions documented from 148 recordings
- 17 Single-owner workflows only one person recorded these
- 24 Automation ready 38% of modeled work
Automation pipeline
- Modeled: 63 recorded and mapped
- Automation ready: 24 38% of modeled work
- In development: 6 25% of automation-ready
- In use: live 3 50% of in development
Single-owner workflows
Only one person has ever recorded these
| Workflow | Team | Exposure |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduling rush production orders | Production ops | High |
| Processing RMAs and return dispositions | Returns and RMA | High |
| Month-end margin reconciliation | Finance | High |
| Vendor credit disputes | Returns and RMA | Moderate |
Needs attention
- Production ops has 6 workflows with one owner and no SOP The highest concentration of unrecorded knowledge in the company.
- 8 workflows have drifted from the version first recorded On 4 teams, the SOP on file no longer matches what people actually do.
- 3 workspaces have recorded nothing in 60 days People ops, legal, and IT.
Process variance
Record several people doing nominally the same job and you get several different processes. Seeing them side by side tells you which version is best — and which differences are improvements rather than drift.
The seams between people
A single recording ends where one person's part ends. Recordings either side of a handoff show what falls into the gap between them.
Single-owner exposure
Which workflows exactly one person has ever recorded, and how long it's been. That's your concentration of unwritten knowledge, ranked.
Drift from the SOP
Where what people actually do has moved away from the version on file, so the document can be corrected rather than trusted.
Talk through a team rollout
Tell us a little about the team and we'll walk through what multi-recorder capture looks like on your operation — usually 30 minutes.
- Multi-recorder synthesis across the same process
- Shared team library and pooled credits
- Role-based access for who can see what.