Automation
The two hours every Friday, given back
Most of what eats a working week is not the work. It is moving information from one place to another — the same details typed into the calendar, then the invoice, then the spreadsheet. Every retyping is a chance to get a number wrong, and you only find out when a customer is upset about it.
You probably recognise at least one of these
- You type the same thing into three different places
- Friday afternoon disappears into paperwork
- Reports are assembled by hand every month
- Something important only happens because one person remembers to do it
What you actually get
- The repetitive step done automatically, in the background
- A written record of what ran and when, so nothing happens invisibly
- A person still approving anything that matters before it goes out
- Fewer transcription mistakes, because nothing gets typed twice
- The time back — usually the clearest and fastest thing to measure
No mystery, no big bang
We find the worst bit
Not everything is worth automating. We look for the step that is repetitive, frequent, and costly when it goes wrong.
We automate one thing
A single step, running properly, beats an ambitious system that nobody trusts.
You stay in the loop
Anything consequential gets a preview and your approval. Automatic does not mean unsupervised.
We widen it
Once you trust the first one, the next is faster and cheaper to add.
Work like this we have already done
Mission Viejo Thanksgiving Celebration
A community event site — one of three, live in 11 days
A free community Thanksgiving for the whole city, with dozens of local partners to list and hundreds of people to seat. He had given up on building a website years ago — too confusing, too many passwords. Now he texts us the change and it is live the same day.
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CreatePDF
Point your phone at a page, get a clean PDF
Photograph a page on a wooden table at an angle, with your fingers holding it down, and get back something that looks like it came off a flatbed scanner. Straightened, whitened, fingers painted out, saved as a PDF you can email.
Read the whole storyThe questions people actually ask
Will it do something wrong while I am not looking?
Not without asking. Anything with consequences shows you a preview and waits for approval. The Schubert sites work exactly this way — a change is drafted, previewed, and only then published.
Do I need to change the software I already use?
Usually not. Most of the value is in connecting what you already have so information stops being retyped between them.
Where do we start?
The step you dread most. That is almost always the one that pays back first.
Tell us what’s driving you crazy
Twenty minutes on the phone, no charge and no pressure. We will tell you honestly whether this is worth fixing, roughly what it would take, or that you are fine as you are.