Business automation strategy
An audit of manual work, scored by hours saved and risk removed, sequenced into a roadmap.
- Engagement
- Fixed-scope engagement
- Typical timeline
- 3–4 weeks
- Starts with
- Two hours shadowing whoever handles your highest-volume process.
Your team is busy, headcount keeps rising, and a surprising share of the day goes into copying values between systems. Everyone knows it; nobody has counted it.
A ranked list of automations with the payback period on each one.
What we build
Concrete artefacts, handed over and documented.
- 01
Process inventory with the hours, error rate and cost of each manual step measured, not estimated
- 02
Automation scorecard ranking every candidate by hours saved, risk removed and effort required
- 03
A phased roadmap with the first three automations specified to build level
- 04
Build-versus-buy call per process, with the tooling cost of each option
- 05
Payback model showing when the programme turns cash-positive
What changes
Manual hours are quantified, so the business case stops being a feeling
The first three automations are ready to build without further discovery
Output stops scaling with headcount
How it runs
01Observe
We sit with the people doing the work and time the steps rather than trusting the process document.
02Score
Each process gets hours, risk and effort numbers, and the list sorts itself.
03Roadmap
Phasing, specifications for the first three, and the payback model behind the sequence.
Chosen per project. Named here so you can see the shape of it.
- n8n
- Make
- Zapier
- Airtable
- Notion
Questions we get asked
Tell us the outcome, not the tooling.
Send us the situation you are in. We will tell you which discipline it belongs to, what we would do first and what it costs, including when the answer is to wait.