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[ Operations automation ]

Quotes that went quiet.Paperwork retyped by hand.Hours nobody billed.

We build the systems that stop it — running on Outlook, Excel and the tools you already use. Fixed price and a fixed date, agreed in writing before we start.

How work moves before and after an automation system On the left, forty jobs in a month, each carried by hand through the same chain of steps across separate inboxes, spreadsheets and drives. Several stop dead and are dropped. On the right, all of the surviving work arrives at one system, from which a single automated workflow runs continuously without anyone carrying it. Every step by hand Dropped ✕ Runs by itself Chased automatically
How work moves before and after an automation system On the left, jobs carried by hand through the same chain of steps, several stopping dead. On the right, all the surviving work on one automated workflow that runs continuously. Every step by hand Runs by itself

[ What we automate ]

  1. 01

    Quote & bid follow-up

    Every quote chased on schedule, every open job on one screen.
  2. 02

    Document intake

    Invoices, orders, certificates and contracts read, checked and filed.
  3. 03

    Client & job onboarding

    Folders, access, checklists and kick-off documents set up on their own.
  4. 04

    Recurring reporting

    The report somebody assembles by hand every month, assembled for you.
  5. 05

    Approvals & handoffs

    Nothing waits because a person forgot to pass it on.
  6. 06

    Systems kept in step

    Your CRM, your accounting and your drive updated from one place.

… and plenty of other systems. These are the ones we get asked for most.

[ How it runs ]

How a build runs.

Three phases — and you have the price and the date in writing before the first one starts.

01

Map

Access, process mapping, specification signed off. You know exactly what’s being built, and what it costs, before anything is built.

02

Build

We build it, and you see it running on your own data — not a status report, not a demo environment. The thing itself, working, while there’s still time to change it.

03

Hand over

Testing on live data, training your team, a recorded walkthrough and a written runbook. Then we keep it running — handover is where we start, not where we finish.

[ How long does it take ]

One workflow is usually about three weeks. Bigger systems get split into stages, and every stage carries its own fixed price and its own date — so scope grows in steps you agreed to, not in an invoice you didn’t expect.

[ Every proposal includes ]
  • What’s in scope
  • What’s explicitly out of scope
  • The definition of done
  • Two rounds of revisions
  • The price of a change request

All five, in writing, before you pay anything. This is our answer to “we tried this before and it didn’t stick.”

[ Why us ]

Why companies choose us.

01

We know your industry.

We’re not learning your business on your budget. We know what a lien waiver, a client engagement and a monthly client report actually are.

02

The number doesn’t move.

Price and date are agreed in writing before we start. If the build runs over, that’s ours to absorb — not yours to discover on an invoice.

03

We agree what “working” means.

Jobs recovered, response time, capacity — set in your numbers before the build and checked against them after. Never a spreadsheet of hours theoretically saved.

04

We’re still here in month six.

Most automation projects die at handover, when the person who built it stops replying. Ours starts there.

[ The freelancer question ]

You could hire a freelancer at $20/hour. What you can’t hire at $20/hour is someone who knows your operations well enough to write the specification, a fixed price instead of an open meter, and a system that still works in month six.

[ Proof ]

Systems we’ve actually built.

A few examples of real projects we’ve delivered. What each one replaced:

Built for iC Consulenten

Time tracking & payroll

Before
Everyone kept their hours in Excel. At month end somebody added them up by hand, per person and per project, then worked out leave separately.
After
Hours are logged as the work happens. Totals per person and per project, reports and leave balances all come out of the system — nobody re-enters anything.

Running today

Built for CES Clean Energy Solutions

Compliance assessment

Before
Each client’s environmental assessment was worked through by hand in a spreadsheet, by someone who knew the rules, one client at a time.
After
The client’s data goes in, the assessment runs itself, and the result comes back in a form the business can act on and take into a client conversation.

Running today

Built on Microsoft Power Automate

Mail & attachment routing

Before
Attachments arrived by email and were opened, renamed and filed into the right folder by hand, every time.
After
Mail is sorted and attachments filed on arrival, on the Microsoft tools the company already paid for.

Running today

[ What’s left ]

Questions we get asked.

What if my team won’t use it?

They won’t have to. It runs in the background. If your team has to change how they work, we’ve built it wrong.

Do we have to replace our software?

No. We connect what you already have and fill the gaps between it. If a project requires you to migrate systems, we’ve scoped it wrong.

Who maintains it?

We do, monthly. That’s the actual product, and it’s why the retainer exists.

What if you disappear?

You own everything we build: code, workflows, accounts, credentials. Everything is documented in a runbook at handover. Another developer could pick it up.

Where does my data go, and can you sign an NDA?

We use AI tools as part of how we build, so some project content passes through third-party AI providers as part of the development process — we won’t pretend otherwise, and it means we can’t offer the kind of absolute confidentiality a formal NDA implies.

What we do commit to, in writing: we never disclose that we work with you, discuss your business, or share your documents or data with anyone outside the project. If your work requires a stricter data-handling standard than that, tell us before we start and we’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit.

Do I own what you build?

Yes. Entirely, from day one, in writing.

We tried something like this and it didn’t stick.

That’s usually a handover problem, not a build problem. Handover is where we start, not where we finish.

How small a company do you work with?

Fifteen employees and up, roughly. Below that there usually isn’t enough repeatable process to justify the cost, and we’ll tell you so.

Find out where the money is leaking.

The Automation Roadmap maps your process, counts the manual steps and prices the fix. Two weeks, $1,200.

We reply within one business day.