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Factorio Business Pipeline Framework
A mental model for business optimization that treats your company like a factory pipeline where you identify bottlenecks and overwhelm them with AI agents
How It Works
Map your business as a visual pipeline, identify the biggest bottleneck (time/money), then deploy AI agents specifically to overwhelm that constraint
Components
Whiteboard your business as a pipeline flow
Identify where you spend the most money
Identify where you spend the most time
Determine the current business bottleneck
Deploy AI agents to overwhelm the bottleneck
Move to the next bottleneck and repeat
When to Use
When you want to systematically automate business processes and need to prioritize which areas to automate first
When Not to Use
When your business processes are still undefined or when you haven't achieved product-market fit yet
Anti-Patterns to Avoid
Example
“An e-commerce business identifies top-of-funnel as their bottleneck. They deploy content creation agents to make 100 videos daily, then move to support automation once lead generation is solved.”