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From R4 500

Automations & integrations

The admin you do by hand every week, done for you instead.

Most small businesses run on copy and paste. An enquiry arrives, somebody retypes it into a spreadsheet, somebody forwards it to a WhatsApp group, and by Friday nobody is certain which ones were answered.

Good fit
A business where somebody spends hours a week retyping the same information from one place into another.
Not a fit
Not for judgement calls, one-off jobs, or anyone who needs to see a shipped automation before they commit.
01

I watch you do it first

Before anything gets built I want to watch the job done by hand once. Not the process document — the actual thing, including the bits people do without thinking and the bits they only do on a Tuesday.

That is where the money is. An automation built from a description of a process usually automates a version of the job nobody actually does.

02

Built for the day it breaks

Anything that runs on its own eventually fails, usually because something upstream changed. The difference between a good automation and a bad one is what happens next.

You get told when something goes wrong instead of finding out on Friday, nothing gets duplicated when it tries again, and there is a plain record you can read of what ran and when.

Included

What you get

  • A walk through how you do it now, before anything gets built
  • The connection itself, between whichever systems are eating the hours
  • Sensible behaviour when something fails, so nothing is lost or duplicated
  • A plain record you can read of what ran and when
  • A trial run on your real information before it touches anything live
  • Notes on how to pause it, change it or switch it off
Process

How it runs

  1. 01 Watch it done by hand Once, properly, including the exceptions. Usually an hour.
  2. 02 Agree what gets automated Some steps should stay human. I will say which ones I think those are.
  3. 03 Build and test Built, then run against your real information before it goes anywhere near live.
  4. 04 Hand over Switched on, with notes on how to pause it and how to tell if it has stopped.
Questions

Straight answers

What can you connect?
Most things with a way in — forms, spreadsheets, email, WhatsApp, calendars, accounting and invoicing tools. If something turns out to be a closed box, I will tell you that early rather than after you have paid.
Have you shipped one of these?
Not yet. My record is websites, and you should know that before we start rather than after. What carries across is the method: watch it first, build for the day it fails, and never let it show a number it does not actually have.
What if it breaks?
You hear about it, which is the whole point of building it this way. Fixes to something I built are quick, and I would rather you told me than quietly worked around it.

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