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AS IS ~14 h / week ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ │ email │─▶│ log │─▶│ drawing │─▶│ approve │─▶│ site │ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ ▲ │ └────────────────── re-issue ×5 ──────────────────┘ 9 projects · one shared inbox TO BE ~3 h / week ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ │ request │─▶│ issue │─▶│ site │ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ one approval · no re-issues 11 hours a week back
AS IS ~17 h / week ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ │ advert │─▶│ inbox │─▶│ sheet │─▶│ call │─▶│ manager │ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ ▲ │ └─────────────────── re-key ×3 ───────────────────┘ 260 CVs · four tools TO BE ~4 h / week ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ │ apply │─▶│ screen │─▶│ offer │ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ one human sift · no re-keying 13 hours a week back
AS IS ~20 h / week ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ │ order │─▶│ sheet │─▶│ phone │─▶│ driver │─▶│ paper │ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ ▲ │ └─────────────────── re-key ×4 ───────────────────┘ 220 pallets · three systems TO BE ~5 h / week ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ │ booking │─▶│ route │─▶│ ePOD │ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ one check · no paper 15 hours a week back
Your business, written down. Then made shorter.
A ledger instead of a spreadsheet
Every movement between partners is booked once, balances follow from the ledger, and transport papers and delivery acts are generated on the spot. In production since May 2026.
One system from quote to delivery
Enquiries, quotes and supplier invoices ran through Outlook, Excel and WhatsApp. We mapped the factory and built the working demo of the system that replaces them — from quote margin to invoice match.
Scanning without a shift plan
Automated vulnerability scanning, low- to high-level threats — no manual intervention.
A free assessment that pays for itself.
Give us your website. We come back with the two or three places your business is losing the most time — no obligation.
Free assessment · 2–8 week delivery · Performance-based feeStart with your website
Takes under a minute.
Most small businesses lose hours every week to work a machine could do — and nobody has written down where.
We come in, learn the business from the inside, and design the mix of rules, AI and automation that makes it run faster and cheaper. The map comes first, so you can see what changes before anything does.
How it works
We write the process down
A short set of questions, and we map what actually happens — every step, handoff and re-key — not what the org chart says.
We find the shorter version
Where automation, a rule or one decision replaces a loop. You get it as a drawing and a number, not a deck.
You choose what we build
Delivery in two to eight weeks. The fee is tied to the result, so nothing is built that does not pay for itself.
Free assessment. Performance-based fee. We only go ahead if the saving is clear — so the risk is with us, not with you.
Want the shorter version of your process?
A free assessment, a performance-based fee, and delivery in two to eight weeks.