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An Automation Agency That Counts First, Builds Second
As an AI and process automation agency we do three things: process automation for the rule-based work, AI automation for the judgement work, and the integrations that let your existing tools hand information to each other without a person copying it across. Discovery, build, measure. In that order, every time.
Here is the part most agencies skip. Before anything gets built we sit with the person doing the job and count. How many times a day. How long each time. How often it comes back wrong. It is unglamorous work and it takes two or three hours, and it is the only reason we know what is worth automating.
One client — a distributor, nine branches — was convinced their bottleneck was month-end reporting. Everyone said so. We counted anyway. The actual cost was a floor supervisor who did not sit at a desktop, so he photographed each dispatch note and WhatsApped it to a girl in accounts who typed all 60-odd of them in after 6pm. Every day. Nobody had ever written that step down because it was not officially anybody’s process.
That one took four weeks. Month-end reporting we got to later, and it turned out to matter much less than the meeting had insisted. Which happens more often than you would think, honestly.
- Process automation for orders, approvals, reminders and reporting
- AI agents that read, classify, answer and route
- Document processing — invoices, POs, forms, scans
- Integrations across the tools you already pay for
- Custom internal tools where no off-the-shelf app fits
- Measured against hours saved and error rate, not vibes
AI Automation vs Process Automation
Short version: process automation runs the rules, AI automation handles the mess. You almost always need both, and the projects that fail are the ones that pick the wrong one for the step.
Process Automation
Fixed rule. Same input, same output, every time.
- Order approved → invoice raised, stock adjusted, dispatch notified
- Payment 14 days overdue → reminder sent, owner flagged
- Monday 8am → the report is already in your inbox
- Form submitted → record created, assigned, acknowledged
Cheap, fast, boringly reliable. Roughly 70% of what we build.
AI Automation
No writable rule. The input arrives messy and needs reading first.
- A customer email that half-describes a problem → classified and routed
- A scanned PO where quantity lands in a different column each time → fields extracted
- Forty repeat questions a day → answered against your real data, at 11pm
- A long thread → summarised into a draft reply a human approves
Powerful, needs guardrails. Never unsupervised on anything irreversible.
Which Processes Are Worth Automating
These eight come up in nearly every discovery we run, roughly in the order they cost the most. If three of them sound like your week, you already know what the first phase is.
The same data typed into three systems that don’t talk
Entered once. Everything downstream updates itself.
Invoices and POs keyed in by hand from PDFs and photos
Read, extracted, checked, posted. Exceptions flagged.
Approvals chased across four WhatsApp threads
One tap, logged, with a record of who said yes and when.
The Monday report somebody rebuilds by hand
Already in your inbox at 8am, same numbers every time.
Follow-ups that depend on someone remembering
Triggered by what the customer did, or didn’t do.
The same six customer questions, forty times a day
An AI agent that answers at 11pm and logs the enquiry.
Enquiries triaged by whoever opens the inbox first
Classified, routed and assigned before anyone reads them.
A month-end reconciliation nobody wants to own
Matched automatically. A person only sees the mismatches.
How an Automation Project Runs
Count the work
Two or three hours watching one job move end to end. Every re-entry, every wait, every chase, timed. You keep those notes whatever you decide to do next.
Pick one, argue about the rest
You get a written phase plan and a number for hours saved. Then we push back on half of what you asked for, because some of it will not repay the build cost. Better to hear that now.
Ship the first workflow
Three to five weeks to something live and in use. Not a demo environment — the real thing, running on real data, with the old process still available for a fortnight.
Measure, then extend
Eight weeks after go-live we re-measure the same two numbers we baselined. If it did not move, we say so. If it did, that is the argument for phase two, and you have the receipts.
Who We Automate For
Manufacturing & distribution
Dispatch notes, production reporting, stock that disagrees with the rack, GST paperwork. Often this grows into a full ERP for manufacturers, but it rarely starts there.
Sales-led teams
Lead triage, quotation follow-ups, pipeline hygiene, renewal reminders. Pairs directly with customer retention software when churn is the thing keeping you up.
Education & campuses
Admissions chasing, fee reminders, attendance rollups, the accreditation report six people assemble by hand. The college ERP side of our work, mostly.
Startups scaling past ~12 people
The size where spreadsheets quietly stop working. Automate before you hire for operations — the startups we work with usually find four to six hours a week per person hiding there.
Automation Questions We Get Asked
Tell Us What Keeps Getting Retyped
You don’t need a spec or a process map. One hour, an honest description of the part of your week that keeps going wrong, and we’ll tell you whether automation is even the right answer. Sometimes it is a staffing problem wearing a software costume, and we’ll say that too.
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