Automation & Integration
Stop retyping the same data into three systems, and stop finding out about failures from a customer.
Business process automation and API integration, connecting the systems you already run so data moves between them without a person copying it across.
The problem
An order arrives by email, gets typed into the accounting system, then typed again into a spreadsheet for reporting. It takes hours a week, it goes wrong quietly, and nobody notices until a customer complains.
What you get
- A map of where data is currently retyped, and what each of those steps costs you weekly
- Integrations between the systems you are keeping, using their APIs rather than screen-scraping
- Document and invoice processing, including extraction from PDFs and scans
- Approval workflows with a record of who approved what and when
- Alerting when an automated step fails, so a silent failure does not run for a month
- A documented manual fallback for every automated path, for when an upstream system is down
What it costs
Scoped and quoted per project after a discovery call. Scope varies too much here for a single published figure to be honest — tell us what you have and what you need, and we will put a number in writing.
Book a free consultationHow we work
- Step 1
Workflow audit
We follow one process end to end and count the manual steps and the time they take.
- Step 2
Prioritise by payback
We start with the automation that saves the most hours for the least build.
- Step 3
Build and run in parallel
The automation runs alongside the manual process until you trust the output.
- Step 4
Cut over and monitor
We switch off the manual step and put failure alerting in place.
Automation & Integration questions
Where should we start?
With whichever manual step costs the most hours for the least build effort. We follow one process end to end, count the manual steps and the time they take, and start where the payback is clearest instead of automating everything at once.
What happens when an automated step fails?
You get alerted, which sounds obvious but is the part most often left out. A silent failure that runs for a month is worse than no automation at all. Every automated path we build also keeps a documented manual fallback for when an upstream system is down.
Can you connect to a system that has no API?
Sometimes, but it is worth being cautious. There are usually options — a file export, a database connection, or email parsing — and we will tell you which are reliable and which are fragile. We would rather flag a brittle integration up front than build something that breaks whenever the other vendor changes a screen.
Will this put our staff out of work?
In our experience it removes the retyping, not the role. The tasks worth automating are the repetitive ones nobody enjoys and everyone gets wrong occasionally. If a specific job is genuinely at stake, that is a decision for you to make openly rather than something a supplier should quietly engineer.
Tell us what you need
A thirty-minute call, no charge, no obligation. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.
