We’re considering using ready-to-use templates for a rapid rollout of automations across several departments. The idea is that templates could cut our deployment timeline in half, which would be huge for our licensing costs—less development time means less infrastructure overhead.
But I’m skeptical. Every time I’ve used templates in other tools, the real work happens after you import them. You spend hours customizing, adapting them to your specific data structures, integrating them with your systems. Sometimes you end up rebuilding them from scratch because the template doesn’t quite fit.
So I’m trying to get real data: when you use templates, what’s the actual time distribution? Is it mostly template-to-production, or does the customization phase still dominate? And more importantly, does using templates actually reduce your licensing costs, or does the rework cycle just delay the ROI calculation?
I’d rather hear about cases where templates didn’t work as well as where they did, because that’s what will actually inform our decision.