Daily
The same report, rebuilt every morning
A query runs against a database, the result gets shaped by hand in a spreadsheet, and the file goes out by email. The automation is partly owned already. The last stretch is still manual, and it starts the day behind.
Three times a day
Ten reports pasted into ten tabs
Downloads are scraped, opened, and copied into their own tabs. It holds until a page changes, and then a morning goes into repair.
Weekly
A client report assembled from exports
Ad-platform CSVs are cleaned, charted, and reassembled by hand into something a client will read. The tool that was meant to replace the work is gone.