Answer six plain questions about one annoying job. If you can fill all six, you are holding a tool spec, and this will hand it back to you as a clean description, a starter prompt, and a list of questions to ask a vendor. If you cannot, it will tell you which rung you still need to figure out.
What actually hurts? One true sentence. Not the category, the pain.
What actually comes in? The real, raw thing.
What single decision has to happen?
What should come out the other side?
Who acts on the result?
Where does a human say yes before anything real happens?