Very much this. Years ago I wrote an AHK script to save the contents of the (image) clipboard to a file, and insert an Org mode link into my Emacs buffer. The GUI was simple: Just give me a dialog box so I can specify where to store the image. Once I do that, it provides the full path to my Emacs function.

I'm not an AHK expert. Very much a beginner. This was trivial.