The moment
You automated the boring half of the workflow and the hours never came back.
The work is faster to produce and the week is not shorter. Everyone can feel it, and the tool's dashboard says it is working.
The turn
The time did not disappear into the tool. It moved into reviewing output instead of producing it.
And reviewing badly shaped output is slower than making the thing yourself, because you have to reconstruct what the machine was thinking before you can judge what it did.
What moved it
The fix was not a smarter tool. We changed what the system hands back: the draft, plus the two decisions it was not sure about.
Review went from reconstruction to judgment.
The shift
Same automation. A fraction of the review time.
The lesson is that a handoff is a design decision, not a leftover.