20 QUESTIONS
Automation, answered.
Which manual work is genuinely worth automating and which is not. What can connect to your CRM, calendar, forms and invoicing, what happens when something breaks at 2am, and who owns the workflows after handover.
All 20 questions
Any process where information currently moves between tools by a person copying and pasting, and could instead move on its own: a lead landing in a CRM, a booking syncing to a calendar, an invoice generating on schedule.
Anything with an API, plus the hundreds of apps that n8n, Zapier, and Make already support out of the box. If a tool has no API at all, I will tell you that upfront rather than building something fragile around it.
The honest measure is hours per week on a specific task, not a percentage from a case study. In the audit we count the task before automating it, so you can judge the result against a real number.
Automations fail when an upstream tool changes something. Builds include error alerts so you find out from a notification rather than from a customer, and documentation covers common fixes.
Yes. They run in your accounts, on your subscriptions, documented. If you stop working with me, they keep running.
All three connect apps together, but they differ in flexibility, pricing model, and how much custom logic they support. The right one depends on your specific workflow, not a fixed preference, and that gets decided during scoping.
It can remove the repetitive, mechanical parts of that role, like data entry and re-typing information between systems, freeing the person for judgment-based work instead of replacing them outright.
A workflow audit before anything gets built. We look at where time actually leaks, which is usually not where people expect, before automating anything.
Yes, based on rules like territory, product interest, or deal size, so leads reach the right person immediately instead of sitting in a shared inbox.
Sometimes a custom API bridge can be built even without an out-of-the-box integration. Sometimes the honest answer is that one of the tools needs to be replaced. I will tell you which situation you are in.
Yes, scheduled or trigger-based follow-ups are one of the most common automations, so a lead or customer gets a timely message without someone remembering to send it manually.
Retry logic and alerts are built into the workflow, so a failure surfaces as a notification to a real person instead of quietly disappearing.
Yes, recurring reports and invoicing are common automation targets, pulling data from your existing tools on a schedule instead of someone assembling them by hand each period.
Data moves between the tools you already use and trust, through the automation platform's standard, secured connections. Nothing is stored outside your existing accounts unless we specifically build a reason for it to be.
A single, well-defined workflow is usually a matter of days. A larger system connecting many tools with custom logic takes longer, and you get a real timeline once the audit is done.
Yes, things like publishing scheduled content, syncing campaign data into a reporting dashboard, or triggering a follow-up after a form submission are all workflow automation, even though they sit inside the marketing function.
Automations can be updated as your process changes. That update work is scoped and quoted like any other change, and documentation makes it easier for anyone, including a future developer, to adjust it.
Yes, a written map of what runs, when, and what to do if something breaks. You are not locked into needing me specifically to maintain it.
No. Small teams doing the same manual task repeatedly, like re-typing form submissions into a spreadsheet, often see the most immediate relief from automation, since there is no dedicated staff absorbing the cost of the manual work.
Yes, things like routing applications, scheduling interviews, or sending onboarding checklists can be automated if the tools involved support it, and this gets scoped the same as any other workflow.
