Automation
Get your team's week back.
If someone does the same job every week, copying between spreadsheets, chasing forms or rebuilding the same report, a system can do it instead. This is usually the quickest thing to pay for itself.
Direct to the developer
You brief the person who writes the code. No account manager in between.
Fixed written price
Scope and cost agreed in writing before any work begins. No hourly drift.
You own everything
Code, hosting and data in your name from day one. No lock-in, ever.
Nottingham & Leicester
On site across the East Midlands, or online anywhere in the UK.
What usually gets automated
- Scheduling and rostering. Building the rota, handling changes, notifying people.
- Leave and absence booking. Requests, approvals, balances and the calendar, without the email chain.
- Record keeping. Information entered once, in one place, instead of three times in three systems.
- Reporting. The report someone rebuilds by hand every month, generated on demand instead.
- Compliance tracking. What is due, what has lapsed, who needs chasing, flagged before it becomes a problem.
- Document generation. Contracts, invoices and letters produced from data rather than retyped.
How to spot the right candidate
The best things to automate are boring, frequent and consistent. If a task happens weekly, follows the same steps each time, and someone could write those steps down for a new starter, it is a strong candidate.
The worst candidates look repetitive but quietly need judgement every time. Automating those creates a system people work around, which is worse than the spreadsheet you started with.
The honest version: not everything is worth automating. If the arithmetic does not work, I will show you the arithmetic rather than sell you the build.
How it works in practice
I start by watching how the job is done now, including the workarounds people are slightly embarrassed about, because those are usually where the real problem is. Then I scope the smallest system that removes the most work, build it, and put it in front of the people who will use it daily before it is finished.
Tools that people do not use are not savings. Getting the actual users involved early is the difference.
How we work
Three steps, no surprises in between
Every project runs the same way, whether it is a full platform or an afternoon of changes.
Free scoping call
Thirty minutes. You tell me what you are trying to fix, open or win, and I tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.
Written proposal, fixed price
Scope, what you get, timeline and a fixed price in writing before any work starts. No hourly drift and no surprise invoices.
Build, then handover
You get a link and regular updates as it comes together, then a walkthrough so your team can run it without me.
Questions
Automation questions
How do I know if something is worth automating?
Rough test: multiply how long the task takes by how often it happens by how many people do it. If that comes to hours every week and the steps are consistent enough to write down, it is usually worth automating. If the task needs judgement every time, it usually is not.
Will this replace my staff?
In practice it removes the part of their job they like least. The value is usually in giving people their week back for work that actually needs a person, not in reducing headcount.
How long before it pays for itself?
For a well-chosen process, often months rather than years, because the saving repeats every week indefinitely. I will do that arithmetic with you honestly at the quote stage, including the cases where it does not add up.
Get started
What is your team doing by hand every week?
Tell me the task and roughly how long it takes. That is usually enough to say whether it is worth building something.