A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for transforming a knowledge base into a machine readable format for an automated system are disclosed. For example, the method includes clustering two or more documents of a plurality of documents in the knowledge base that are similar based upon a domain specific shingling function, identifying a pattern from each document of the plurality of documents that are clustered, wherein the pattern comprises a sequence of steps, aggregating the pattern of the each document of the plurality of documents that are clustered into a trie data-structure that is machine readable, receiving a request and applying the trie data-structure to provide a solution to the request.