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Custom Automation Consulting

Sometimes the highest-leverage move isn't building — it's knowing what to build first. We audit your operations, put a number on what every manual process costs you, and hand you a roadmap ranked by payback speed.

The problem

Sound familiar?

Knowing you should automate and knowing what to automate first are very different problems.

  • A dozen automation ideas, no idea which ones actually pay for themselves — so none get built.
  • A previous automation attempt that died quietly because nobody owned it after launch.
  • Tool decision paralysis: n8n or Make? Build or buy? Every blog post says something different.

Our approach

How we fix it

The audit works like this: we sit with the people doing the work, map each recurring process step by step, and cost it honestly — hours spent, error rates, delay costs, opportunity cost. Each process gets an automation feasibility score and an ROI estimate, and the output is a ranked roadmap: what to automate, in what order, with which tools, and what each phase should cost.

From there you choose: take the roadmap and run (it's yours), have us build it, or put us on retainer — where we maintain what exists, ship improvements monthly, train your team, and review the numbers with you quarterly. Our incentive is simple: retainers only survive when the systems keep earning their keep.

Deliverables

What you get

  • A process audit built from interviews with the people actually doing the work
  • True-cost analysis per process: hours, error rates, and delay costs in dollars
  • A ranked automation roadmap with ROI estimates and tool recommendations
  • A tool-stack recommendation matched to your volume, budget, and team skills
  • Optional: done-for-you builds of the roadmap, phase by phase
  • Optional retainer: maintenance, monthly improvements, training, quarterly reviews

Tools we use for this

  • n8n
  • Make.com
  • Zapier
  • OpenAI
  • Airtable
  • Your existing stack

FAQ

Common questions about this service

The free 30-minute audit finds your single most expensive manual process and sketches what automating it would take — genuinely useful on its own. The paid audit goes wall to wall: every recurring process mapped, costed, and ranked into a roadmap you can execute with us or without us.

No — the roadmap is deliberately tool-honest and vendor-neutral. Some items will be "buy this $30/month SaaS", some "your ops person can do this in Zapier in an afternoon", and some genuinely need custom work. The roadmap is yours either way; we'd rather earn the build work on merit.

A fixed allocation of senior build time each month covering maintenance, fixes, and new improvements from the roadmap — plus monitoring of everything we've shipped, priority response when something breaks, and a quarterly review where we re-rank priorities against real results. Unused focus rolls into the next most valuable item, never into thin air.

Ready to put custom automation consulting to work?

Book a free 30-minute automation audit. We'll map your most expensive manual process and show you exactly what it would take to automate it — no obligation, no fluff.

Usually booked out 1–2 weeks — grab a slot early.