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Delete the work instead of hiring for it.

Every business runs on invisible manual labour: copying rows between tools, chasing approvals, rebuilding the same report every Monday. We find those loops, automate them properly, and give you the monitoring to prove they keep working.

n8n / order-intake1,284 RUNS · 0 FAILED
09:41:02order.created → enriched → fulfilledok
09:41:04stock mismatch → routed to review queueheld
09:41:07order.created → enriched → fulfilledok

Eliminating repetitive tasks and saving hundreds of manual hours with custom automation flows.

Starting at
$3,000
Typical timeline
2-6 weeks

Where manual process quietly costs you

If two or more of these sound familiar, the underlying issue is usually architectural rather than a shortage of effort. That is the part we are good at.

  • Someone re-keys the same record into three systems every single day.
  • Leads sit unattended for hours because routing depends on a person checking an inbox.
  • Monday reporting consumes half a day of a senior person's week, every week.
  • An automation broke six weeks ago and nobody noticed until a customer complained.
  • Tools do not talk to each other, so a spreadsheet becomes the source of truth.
What we build

Five things we deliver inside this practice.

Each one is a complete piece of engineering, not a line item on a proposal.

Workflow Automation (n8n & Make)

Your tools connected into flows that run reliably, log every execution, and alert a human when they cannot proceed.

  • Self-hosted n8n for data that cannot leave your estate
  • Workflows versioned in Git, not clicked into a UI
  • Error branches with human notification
  • Execution history you can audit

Custom Webhooks & API Pipelines

Real-time synchronisation across platforms, built to survive duplicate deliveries and partner downtime.

  • Signature verification on every inbound hook
  • Idempotency keys and replay protection
  • Dead-letter queues with automatic retry
  • Reconciliation jobs that catch silent drift

Email & CRM Automations

Lead capture, enrichment, routing, and nurture sequences that respond in minutes rather than business days.

  • Enrichment and scoring before assignment
  • Round-robin routing with SLA timers
  • Behaviour-triggered nurture sequences
  • Clean attribution back to source

Scheduled Data & Report Jobs

Background jobs that collect, transform, and deliver the numbers before anyone has to ask for them.

  • Cron and event-driven scheduling
  • Incremental syncs instead of full reloads
  • Delivery to email, Slack, or object storage
  • Failure alerts with the offending row attached

AI-Powered Automated Workflows

Automation with judgement — classification, extraction, and drafting inserted exactly where rules alone fall short.

  • Model calls as a step, not as the whole system
  • Confidence thresholds with human review queues
  • Deterministic fallbacks when the model is unsure
  • Cost tracked per workflow run

Results from this practice

1,900
Hours reclaimed
per year, single client
4 min
Lead response time
down from nine hours
38
Systems connected
under one orchestration layer
0
Manual re-keying
remaining after cutover
Delivery

How this engagement runs.

Named phases with named outputs. You always know what is being produced and when you will see it.

  1. P1Week 1

    Process audit

    We shadow the actual work and time it. Every candidate process gets an hours-per-month figure and a difficulty score, so priorities are argued with numbers.

    Process inventoryHours-saved modelPriority ranking
  2. P2Week 1-2

    Highest-value flow first

    We automate the single most expensive loop first and run it in parallel with the manual process until it demonstrably matches.

    First live workflowParallel-run comparisonConfidence report
  3. P3Week 2-5

    Connect the estate

    Remaining flows are built on shared, versioned components — one authentication layer, one error strategy, one alerting channel.

    Workflow libraryShared credential vaultAlert routing
  4. P4Week 5-6

    Instrument and hand over

    Dashboards showing runs, failures, and hours saved, plus training so your team can extend the flows without calling us.

    Operations dashboardTeam trainingExtension guide

The stack we reach for

Chosen for operational boredom, not novelty. If something newer is genuinely better for your case we will say so, and explain the maintenance cost.

Orchestration
n8nMakeTemporalInngestCron
Integration
RESTGraphQLWebhooksSFTPZapier
Business tools
HubSpotSalesforceSlackNotionAirtable
Reliability
Dead-letter queuesIdempotencyRetriesAlerting

What you receive

Every engagement ends with these in your accounts, whether or not we keep working together afterwards.

  • Workflow definitions versioned in your repository
  • Credential vault with scoped access
  • Execution monitoring and failure alerting
  • Hours-saved dashboard for the board deck
  • Runbook for the five most likely failures
  • Training session for your operations team
Not sure which pieces you need?
The estimator gives you a scoped band in about a minute.
Estimate

Questions we get asked

Mostly the engineering around the automation. Signature verification, idempotency, retries with backoff, dead-letter queues, and alerting turn a failure into a notification instead of a silent gap you hear about from a customer.

Yes. Self-hosted n8n or custom services inside your VPC is our default when data is sensitive, and it usually costs less than per-task pricing at volume.

We time the manual process before touching it and instrument every automated run afterwards. The hours-saved dashboard is built from real execution data, not estimates.

Let us talk about business & process automation.

Two ways to start, both of them short. Bring the problem, not a specification — the first useful thing we do is tell you what we would build and roughly what it costs.

Book an architecture call

Fifteen minutes, no deck. We map your problem to an approach and tell you what a realistic scope and budget look like.

  • A specific technical recommendation
  • A budget band you can plan against
  • An honest answer if we are the wrong fit

Send a written brief

Prefer to write it down? Email us the shape of the problem and we will reply with a first take, usually under 12 hours.

  • Goes straight to an engineer, not a sales inbox
  • We reply with an approach, not a brochure
  • Attach anything: repos, docs, screenshots