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Process

Discover. Map. Automate. Operate.

Automation fails when it starts with a tool. Ours starts with how your business actually works, and doesn't end at launch.

  1. Phase 01

    Discover

    Understand the business before touching the tech.

    We start with conversations: leadership, the front line, IT. What does the business do, where does time go, and what keeps breaking? We look for the work that is repetitive, error-prone or blocking growth.

    What happens

    • Stakeholder and front-line interviews
    • Inventory of systems, vendors and data sources
    • Pain points, goals and constraints

    You get

    A short findings brief and a shortlist of candidate processes.

  2. Phase 02

    Map

    Draw the real process, not the one in the binder.

    We trace each shortlisted process end to end, covering every hand-off, spreadsheet, approval and system boundary, then score each step for automation potential, effort and risk.

    What happens

    • End-to-end process and data-flow maps
    • Manual-touch and failure-point analysis
    • Effort, impact and risk scoring

    You get

    A prioritized automation roadmap with scope for the first build.

  3. Phase 03

    Automate

    Build, integrate and ship in short cycles.

    We build the automations: integrations, custom software, agents and infrastructure code. AI coding agents let a small, senior team ship far faster than a traditional project, and every change is reviewed, tested and documented by us.

    What happens

    • Integrations, apps, agents and infrastructure code
    • Testing with real (or safely masked) data
    • Rollout with the people who use it

    You get

    Working automation in production, with documentation and runbooks.

  4. Phase 04

    Operate

    Keep it running, measure it, find the next win.

    Automation isn't done at launch. We monitor what we built, fix what drifts, report on results and feed what we learn back into the roadmap.

    What happens

    • Monitoring, alerting and support
    • Reporting on time saved and error rates
    • Roadmap updates and the next build

    You get

    Ongoing operations, reporting and a living roadmap.

Map, then automate

See what a mapped workflow turns into.

This is the shape of a Map deliverable: every step, who does it and in which system. Toggle to the automated version and pick another industry.

Interactive example
Show the workflow

New-hire onboarding · Trigger: HR confirms a start date

Current state

  1. 01Manual

    HR emails IT the new hire's details

    HR · Email

  2. 02Manual

    IT creates directory and email accounts

    IT · Directory

  3. 03Manual

    IT requests licenses from purchasing

    IT · Email

  4. 04Manual

    Purchasing assigns licenses

    Purchasing · Vendor portals

  5. 05Manual

    IT images and ships a laptop

    IT · Imaging tool

  6. 06Manual

    Manager asks for missing access

    Manager · Email

  7. 07Manual

    IT updates the tracking spreadsheet

    IT · Spreadsheet

Steps
7before, then after:5
Manual touches
7before, then after:0
Hand-offs
5before, then after:2
Systems touched
5before, then after:4

Showing the current state. Counts come from this illustrative workflow, not measured client results. Legend: dashed = manual, orange = automated, solid dark = human review.

Start with Discover.

A short call about how your business runs. We'll tell you honestly where automation would pay off first, and where it wouldn't.

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