Small teams operating like big ones.
We remove the busywork that's quietly eating your team's week by building workflow automations, AI assistants, and lightweight internal tools so 5 people get the leverage of 50, without doubling headcount.
10 to 40h
Saved per team / week
−60%
Avg. ops cost per ticket
2 wks
First pilot in production
100%
You own the workflows
The full stack. None of the gaps.
Workflow automation
Cross-app workflows in n8n, Make and Zapier: onboarding, billing, lead routing, data sync, ops alerts. Built once, documented, and owned by your team forever.
AI assistants & chatbots
Customer-facing assistants and internal copilots powered by OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini, with retrieval over your own docs, prompt eval harnesses, and latency/cost guardrails.
AI integrations into existing tools
Embed LLM capabilities into your CRM, helpdesk, CMS or product, including drafting, classification, summarization, and semantic search, without forcing your team onto a new platform.
Internal tools & dashboards
Lightweight admin panels, ops dashboards, approval flows and CRUD apps that turn manual spreadsheets into reliable, auditable processes.
Best-in-class. Battle-tested.
We pick tools that fit your workflow. Every account and integration is yours from day one.
Clear phases. No black boxes.
You always know what ships next and why — before we spend a single hour on execution.
- 01
Workflow audit
We shadow your team for a week and map every repetitive workflow, manual handoff and copy-paste tax. You get a prioritized backlog ranked by ROI.
- 02
Pilot automation
We pick the highest-ROI workflow and ship it within 2 weeks: measurable, reversible, owned by your team. Proof before scope expands.
- 03
Roll out the system
We then build out the rest of the backlog, covering workflows, assistants and internal tools, with documentation and training as we go.
- 04
Operate & evolve
Optional managed support: monitoring, prompt tuning, model upgrades and adding new automations as your operation grows.
What you walk away with.
Concrete assets you own outright. No vague retainers. Every engagement ships things you can hold.
- 01
Prioritized automation opportunity map
- 02
Production workflow library (n8n / Make / Zapier)
- 03
AI assistants with eval harness & guardrails
- 04
Internal tools & admin dashboards
- 05
Written documentation & runbooks
- 06
Cost & latency monitoring dashboards
- 07
Team training & handover sessions
- 08
Optional managed-service SLA
01Are AI assistants actually production-ready, or still toys?
Both. We're transparent about what's mature (classification, drafting, summarization, retrieval) and what isn't (autonomous multi-step agents in high-stakes domains). We design with eval harnesses and human-in-the-loop where needed.
02How do you handle data privacy and security?
We default to providers with proper enterprise controls (no training on your data, SOC 2, regional hosting). For sensitive workloads we deploy open-source models on your own infrastructure. We never paste customer data into a personal account.
03Do you favor n8n, Make or Zapier?
We pick what fits your team and volume. Zapier wins for speed and SaaS-only stacks. Make wins for visual complexity. n8n wins when you need self-hosting, fair pricing at scale, or to extend with custom code. We'll recommend honestly, not based on partner commissions.
04What if my workflow lives in a niche or on-prem tool?
Most things are reachable via API, webhook or RPA. If something is genuinely closed (legacy desktop, no API), we'll either build a thin connector or honestly tell you it's not worth automating yet.
05Will my team be able to maintain this after you leave?
Yes, that's the whole point. Every workflow ships with documentation, written runbooks and a 30-minute video walkthrough. Most clients also keep a small monthly retainer with us as their on-call automation team.
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