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Custom Agents & Automation

Put the repetitive work on rails, and keep the audit trail 

Task-specific agents and automations wired into the tools you already run. Triggers, actions, retries, approvals, and alerting — designed against a written workflow map, so routine work happens without anyone touching it and every run can be explained afterwards.

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Workflows run unattended

3+

Years building automation systems

100%

Runs logged and replayable

Built on the automation tooling your team can maintain

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Where the hours actually go

Nobody quits over the work. They quit over the handoffs. 

Most teams are not slow because the work is hard. They are slow because a person is the glue between six systems that were never introduced to each other.

I map the workflow first, write down every trigger, branch, and exception, and then build automation that logs each run, retries what is transient, and escalates to a human on what is not. When something does break, you get an alert with the context, not a customer complaint.

Operations team reviewing an automated workflow connecting several business systems
Every run logged · every failure alerted · every exception routed

The problems I get called in to fix:

  • Copy-paste between systems

    A record is created in one tool and re-typed into three others. Every re-type is a chance to introduce an error nobody catches until month-end.

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  • Approvals that stall in an inbox

    The process is fine on paper. In practice it waits three days because the approver did not see the email.

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  • Silent failures

    A sync broke on Tuesday. You found out on Friday, from a customer, and the missing records had to be reconstructed by hand.

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  • Automations nobody can explain

    A Zap built by someone who left. It still fires, nobody knows exactly what it touches, and everyone is afraid to turn it off.

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  • Rules that live in one person's head

    The exceptions — the VIP account, the refund threshold, the escalation path — are undocumented, so the process only works when that person is online.

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Workflow map before any build

1 wk

To a first live automation

0

Failures that pass silently

What automation work covers

From a single workflow to an operating system for your ops 

Start with the one process that hurts most, then extend. Each piece is scoped, documented, and monitored before the next one starts.

Service 01

Workflow mapping & audit

We chart the process as it actually runs — not as the SOP describes it. Every manual step, system, decision point, and exception gets written down, then ranked by how much time it costs and how safe it is to automate.

  • Step-by-step process map
  • System and data-source inventory
  • Automation shortlist ranked by payback
  • Explicit list of what stays human

Automation expertise

The layers that decide whether an automation is trusted 

Anyone can wire two APIs together. Reliability comes from the layers underneath — and those are where I spend the time.

Where the workflow lives, how state survives a restart, and what happens on the fifth retry.

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What gets automated

The workflows that pay for themselves first 

These are the processes I am asked for most often, and the ones where automation shows up in a calendar within the first month.

Automated triage of incoming customer messages and support tickets
Drafted, not sent — a person still presses the button
Capability 01

Inbox, ticket & message triage

Incoming mail, tickets, and chat classified, tagged, routed, and — where the intent is clear and low-risk — answered with a drafted reply a human can send in one click.

  • Intent classification and tagging
  • Priority and SLA routing
  • Drafted replies for human approval
  • Escalation on sentiment or keywords
Data synchronising between CRM, ERP and spreadsheet systems
Reconciliation catches drift the sync missed
Capability 02

Record sync between systems

Customers, orders, invoices, and inventory kept in agreement across CRM, ERP, spreadsheets, and the storefront, with a reconciliation job that catches drift instead of hoping it never happens.

  • Two-way sync with conflict rules
  • Scheduled reconciliation and drift reports
  • Field mapping documented per system
  • Safe replay after an outage
Automated document processing pipeline extracting structured data from invoices
Uncertain records go to a queue, never to a guess
Capability 03

Document processing pipelines

Invoices, POs, contracts, and forms ingested from email or a folder, parsed into structured fields, validated, and written into the system of record — with anything uncertain queued for review rather than guessed.

  • Email and folder ingestion
  • Field extraction with validation
  • Duplicate and fraud checks
  • Review queue for low-confidence records
Automated business reporting and scheduled briefing dashboard
Every figure traceable to its query
Capability 04

Reporting & scheduled briefings

The recurring report someone rebuilds by hand every Monday, generated automatically from the source systems and delivered where it will be read — with the numbers traceable back to the query that produced them.

  • Scheduled multi-source reports
  • Delivery to email, Slack, or dashboard
  • Traceable figures with source links
  • Anomaly flags on unusual movement
Multiple agents coordinating the steps of a longer business workflow
Checkpointed state · scoped tools · a fallback that always exists
Capability 05

Multi-step agent workflows

When one rule is not enough: a planner that breaks the job into steps, specialists that own each one, shared state so context survives a handoff, and a deterministic fallback for when a step cannot complete.

  • Planner plus specialist topology
  • Checkpointed state between steps
  • Tool permissions scoped per agent
  • Deterministic fallback path

Not sure which process to automate first?

Most teams know they are losing hours somewhere but cannot name the workflow. Book a free 30-minute call and we will map your top three candidates, estimate what each one costs to build, and tell you honestly which ones are not worth automating yet.

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Where these automations run

Same engine, different rules 

The orchestration is portable. The exceptions, approvals, and compliance requirements are what change per sector.

Three-way invoice matching screen with an approval chain awaiting a final sign-off

Finance & accounting operations

Invoice intake, reconciliation, and approval chains where every action needs an owner and a timestamp.

  • Invoice and receipt extraction
  • Three-way matching against POs
  • Maker-checker approval chains
  • Immutable audit logging

How automation work runs

Map it, build it, watch it, then extend 

Small, verifiable steps. The first workflow is live before we discuss the fifth.

01

Process interview

A working session with whoever actually performs the task — not just the manager who describes it. The exceptions live with the operator, and the exceptions are where automations break.

Deliverables

  • Current-state map
  • Exception list
  • System inventory
02

Automation spec

Triggers, branches, actions, fallbacks, alerting, and the explicit boundary of what the automation is never allowed to do on its own.

Deliverables

  • Trigger and action spec
  • Guardrail boundary
  • Alerting plan
03

Build against real data

Workflows are built and tested on a copy of your actual records, because sample data hides exactly the malformed cases that cause failures.

Deliverables

  • Working workflow
  • Test run history
  • Edge-case notes
04

Shadow run

The automation runs alongside the human process without writing anything, so you can compare its decisions against reality before it touches production.

Deliverables

  • Shadow comparison
  • Accuracy notes
  • Threshold tuning
05

Go live with guardrails

Production connection with scoped credentials, approval gates on irreversible actions, and alerting wired to a channel your team reads.

Deliverables

  • Scoped credentials
  • Approval gates
  • Live alerting
06

Monitor & tune

A tuning window after launch where thresholds, routing, and prompts are adjusted against real traffic rather than assumptions.

Deliverables

  • Run health report
  • Threshold adjustments
  • Failure review
07

Document & extend

A runbook your team owns, then the next workflow from the shortlist — with everything already wired for it.

Deliverables

  • Runbook
  • Team walkthrough
  • Next-workflow plan

Why work with me

Automations built to be trusted, not just to run 

The measure of an automation is not that it works on the demo record. It is whether your team stops checking it after two weeks.

Failure is designed, not discovered

Retries, dead letters, and alerting are part of the first build. A workflow that can fail silently is not finished.

Every run is explainable

Structured logs and run history mean you can answer what happened to a specific record on a specific day, months later.

Guardrails before autonomy

Scoped credentials and approval gates on anything irreversible. The automation gets more freedom as it earns it.

No lock-in

Workflows are exported and version-controlled, and the runbook is written for your team. You can take it in-house whenever you want.

12+

Projects shipped end to end

3+

Years building automation

24/7

Unattended operation

100%

Workflows ship with alerting

Frequently asked

Questions people ask before we start 

Know the process that is costing you hours?

Describe it in a few lines and you will get an honest read on whether it can be automated, what it would take, and whether it is worth doing now.