Migrated 4 of 7 Notion automations to an MCP server in one weekend
Two workflows stayed in Notion because the database UI beat any tool call
MCP scope rule: one tool does one verb, never a Swiss Army function
Result: 12 manual steps collapsed into 3 Claude prompts per publish
I spent a weekend pulling four automations out of Notion and rebuilding them as MCP tools. Three of them got faster and one got worse before it got better. The biggest lesson was not about code. It was about deciding which jobs should never leave Notion in the first place.
