I guess there's a different though - if its for a customer then its potentially something that you should be charging for. If the "customer" is actually another

I guess there's a different though - if its for a customer then its potentially something that you should be charging for. If the "customer" is actually another department in your company and the automation helps then the company should have software devs allocated to internal tools - they'll probably find a lot more places to smooth things out if they're allowed to look.