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Automation · less routine, fewer errors

Give your team back the hours spent copying data

We automate repetitive operations between your website, CRM, spreadsheets, email and messengers: enquiries, reports, transcripts and notifications. It suits companies where employees manually move data between systems and lose hours every week doing it. The goal is to free up people’s time, eliminate manual-entry errors and avoid losing enquiries; we also plan for failures in advance so automation does not quietly lose data.

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Does this sound familiar?

  • A manager copies enquiries from a form into the CRM and a spreadsheet every day.
  • A report for management is assembled manually from three systems.
  • Enquiries from a messenger are lost because no one enters them into the system.
  • You already tried to “set it up in Zapier,” but the workflow breaks and no one knows why.

What the business gets

ResultWhat it includesBasis
Routine → automated processreports, notifications and data transfers between services without manual workproject
People review instead of compilingin a branch-network case, reporting went from 2 days to 15 minutes for a reviewLarge banking network (NDA)
Instructions and access under your controlthe process does not depend on one specialisthandoff

Payback calculation (illustrative example)

hours per week × 52 × employee’s hourly cost. For example, 6 hours per week is 312 hours per year; at an hourly cost of 1,000, that is 312,000 per year. Use your own numbers.

Routine never gets tired. Teams do.

Why this happens

Manual processes grow unnoticed: each step is “quick,” but together they take weeks out of the year. Automation without planned failure handling is risky: a retry can create duplicates, and a timeout can lose an enquiry. So before development, we map data flows and exceptions.

What is included

  1. Process map — participants, manual steps and exceptions. You see exactly where time and data are lost.
  2. Integration, field and permissions diagram — only the access that is necessary.
  3. Handling of retries, timeouts and partial failures — the system does not create duplicates or silently lose data.
  4. Logs and notifications — if something fails, you know what happened and what to do.
  5. Manual recovery instructions — if automation is unavailable, work can continue.
  6. Handoff to the process owner — someone on your team understands how it works.

How the work proceeds

StageTimingWhat we need from you
Review the process and select an area1–2 weekssomeone who knows the process and examples of the data
Integration sprint (starter: one process and 2 systems; core: up to 3 automations across 4 systems)2–4 weeksAPI/system access
Retry and failure tests, instructions3–5 daysscenarios to test

Is copying data by hand really a human job? Let's discuss what we can automate.

Case studies

  • Residential developer — site with interactive apartment selection, quiz funnel and CRM lead handoff: visit-to-enquiry conversion 1.1% → 3.4%, cost per qualified lead −41%, lead-to-deal conversion +27%. → Residential developer
  • Food delivery service — AI-powered Telegram bot (knowledge-base search) with access to order data: 78% of requests handled without an operator, first response time reduced from up to 40 minutes to 3–5 seconds, cost to handle a request about 12 times lower, CSAT 3.4 → 4.7. → Meal-delivery service
  • Financial branch network (NDA). Unified profiles and automatic collection of impressions, clicks and rankings: reporting went from 2 days to 15 minutes for a review. → Large banking network (NDA)
  • SEO Control (a separate studio service). Monitoring and reports replaced manual checks across 50+ projects — related experience, not a result of this service. → SEO Control
  • Local meeting transcription. Meeting notes without sending audio outside; speed depends on the recording and computer. → Local meeting transcription

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Prices are indicative. The final price depends on the project and agreed terms and is confirmed before work begins.

The final price depends on the CMS and source-material readiness, integrations, and the number of target markets and languages.

Licences, paid tools, placements and infrastructure are quoted separately. Accounts and access remain in your name.

Process map

— choose an area that is safe to automate. Integration sprint — starter: one process and 2 systems; core: up to 3 automations across 4 systems. Prices are shown on the cards.

What is excluded and what we do not promise

The package does not include paid subscriptions or API fees for third-party systems. Large-scale integrations, data migration and automated decisions with legal or financial consequences need separate assessment and oversight. We leave disputed decisions to a person.

Who it is and is not for

Routine work deserves autopilot—but first, let's map the route.

Suitable for

teams with a repeatable operation, a process owner and systems with a stable API.

Not suitable for

processes without rules or exceptions where “it is different every time”; systems without an API or supported integration methods.

FAQ

  • What happens if something fails? We agree on stopping, retrying and notifications before development; critical operations have a manual fallback.
  • Can you automate any action? Not every action is safe to automate. We check rules and exceptions and leave disputed cases to a person.
  • How is this different from builders like Zapier? A builder works for simple connections; we handle cases where retries, permissions, logs and accountability matter.
  • How much time will our team need to spend? We need someone who knows the process for discovery and stage acceptance; we agree on the time at the start.

Let the robot handle routine work. Humans can keep the coffee.

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