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Automation & custom apps

Automation and the software you can't buy

When the work your team repeats every week is eating real hours, or the product you'd have to buy only does half the job, we build for it.

Takes about a minute. The quote is free and comes by email — what it would involve and what it could save you. No obligation, no sales call.

What we build

Automation and custom builds

Two kinds of work, often on the same engagement: taking the repetitive parts of a process off your team, and building the tool that no product on the market quite covers.

Automation

Most teams have a handful of tasks that run every week and eat hours for no good reason. Those are the ones worth handing to a machine.

  • Recurring reports, pulled and delivered on schedule
  • Data moved between systems without a person in the middle
  • Requests and orders routed to the right person automatically
  • Checks that flag what doesn't reconcile

Custom apps and tools

When the product you'd have to buy does half of what you need and charges monthly for the other half, building something specific is often the cheaper answer.

  • Internal tools and dashboards shaped to your process
  • Customer-facing intake, booking and status pages
  • Replacing the spreadsheet that became infrastructure
  • Integrations between the tools you already keep

Have one of these in mind already? Describe it and get a free quote

The same few tasks turn up in almost every small business. Here's what three of them cost by hand — and what changes when they run themselves.

The figures are illustrative. The shape of the work is not.

What automation looks like in practice

Every business runs on tasks that repeat — onboarding a client, entering data, chasing a follow-up, pulling a report, moving a file where it needs to go. Automating them means building scripts and integrations around the way you already work, so the steps still happen — just not by hand. Three examples of what that usually looks like.

Example 1

Client onboarding

Before

  • Create the accounts
  • Write and send the welcome email
  • Set up the shared folder

Done by hand for every new client — roughly two hours each.

Automated

Runs when a new client is confirmed

  • Accounts created
  • Welcome sequence sent
  • Shared folder ready

One pipeline handles account creation, sends a welcome email sequence, and creates the shared folder automatically.

Time saved
~2 hrsper new client
Estimated savings
~$1,000per month at 10 new clients — about $100 each
Example 2

Invoicing and payment reminders

Before

  • Create the invoice
  • Send it to the client
  • Track what's still unpaid
  • Follow up on each one

Repeated across every open invoice — about three hours a week.

Automated

Runs when an order or form is completed

  • Invoice generated from the order
  • Sent without anyone touching it
  • Unpaid ones tracked automatically
  • Reminders sent on a schedule

Invoices generate automatically from completed orders and forms, and reminders send on a schedule for anything still unpaid.

Time saved
~3 hrsper week
Estimated savings
~$600per month
Example 3

Client request intake and routing

Before

  • Read through scattered emails
  • Work out what each one is
  • Prioritize and pass it on

Triage before any of the actual work starts — one to two hours a week.

Automated

Runs when the request form is submitted

  • Request arrives structured
  • Categorized on arrival
  • Routed to the right person

A structured request form categorizes and routes each request as it arrives, cutting down on manual triage.

Time saved
~1–2 hrsper week, scaling with client volume
Estimated savings
~$200–400per month

Estimates shown are approximate, based on a general hourly rate, and meant to illustrate the kind of impact automation can have. Actual time and cost savings vary depending on your business and current workflow.

Got a task like these?

Describe it in a minute and we'll come back by email with a free quote — what automating it would involve and what it could save you.

Get a free quote

Not sure what to automate?

The hard part is usually picking the right task — one that repeats often enough, and runs the same way every time, to be worth building around. It's rarely the one people expect.

We'll take a look at how your business currently handles repetitive tasks and show you where automation could save the most time.

What we look at

  • Which recurring tasks take the most time each week
  • Where the same information gets typed in more than once
  • Which of your existing systems can talk to each other
  • What's worth automating first, and what can wait

Ready when you are

Send over a description of the process and we'll come back with scope, timeline and cost — no obligation attached.