The technology is getting good enough with cloud warehouses that most of the logic can be defined in SQL, with a script only needing to map the results back to an API.
Current domain is SaaS. I've found many of the same types of opportunities on the sales/marketing side of things, but not at quite the same scale.
Agreed that automation it will always take more time than a visualization. If we can shift the conversation towards the expected action that will be taken off the dashboard, we can hopefully save thousands of wasted hours on visualizations that don't get used, redirecting those hours towards more impactful efforts.
I would love to expand my mindset and hear of domains where the complexity is far higher. Feel free to shoot me an email.