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Workflows handled by software instead of your team

Enquiry, quote, appointment, invoice, follow-up: the same repeated steps run in the background, so the office keeps its time for the work nobody can automate.

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The most expensive place in a small business is rarely production, it is the office in the evening: retyping the enquiry, copying a quote out of an old file, shuffling appointments over the phone, writing the invoice, chasing it three weeks later. These are not tasks, they are rework, and they grow with every extra job.

The usual mistake is the grand plan: a year spent designing one complete system, which then fails against the resistance of the people meant to use it. We work the other way round and take the single workflow that occurs most often and annoys people most. Once that runs stably for two weeks, the next one follows.

And the limit that costs us work: if a task comes up twice a month and takes ten minutes, you save four hours a year. No automation is worth that, however cheap, because setup, upkeep and the debugging on the day it stops cost more. The maths starts to work at roughly daily repetition; below that, a better template is the more honest answer.

Who this suits

A fit if

  • A workflow repeats daily and runs the same way every time
  • The same data is typed by hand from one system into the next
  • Enquiries stall because nobody owns moving them along
  • The rules can be written down in one sentence, with no exceptions attached

Not a fit if

  • The task only comes up a few times a month
  • Every case is different and needs a professional judgement
  • The workflow itself is broken and speed only breaks it faster
  • Nobody on the team is willing to back the handover to software

What is included

  • A survey of the workflows with frequency and time per case, ranked by hours saved
  • The enquiry route: form, instant acknowledgement, assignment, a reminder when it stalls
  • Appointment booking with calendar sync, confirmation and reminder, without phone tag
  • Quote and invoice flow: data carries over from the enquiry instead of being retyped
  • Follow-ups and review requests at fixed points, switchable off per customer

How we work

  1. 01

    Counting instead of guessing

    For two weeks we note which task occurs how often and how long it takes. Only then is it clear where the time actually sits, and it is usually not the workflow people complain about loudest.

  2. 02

    Making the smallest cut

    We automate one single workflow, not the company. That takes days rather than months, and you see on a real case whether the maths works before investing further.

  3. 03

    Handing over and documenting

    The workflow runs on your accounts, not ours. It comes with a short description of what happens, what happens when it fails, and how to switch it off. Without that page, any automation is a dependency.

  4. 04

    Then the next workflow

    After two stable weeks we look at the numbers: how many cases ran through, how many needed manual intervention. Only then does the next workflow follow.

What it costs

The platforms are the smaller line item: common automation tools sit roughly between 10 and 300 euros net per month according to their public price lists, depending on run volume. On the market, setting up a single workflow costs roughly 300 to 2,500 euros net, while providers typically price a connected entry project covering several workflows between 2,500 and 8,000 euros net, with custom development well above that. Those are market ranges, not fixed prices. Before any quote we work the saved hours against the cost: if the workflow does not pay for itself within twelve months, we advise against it.

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