Workflow Automation

Workflow Automation That Connects the Systems You Already Use

The slow part is rarely the task itself. It is the handover between people and between systems that do not talk to each other. Workflow automation moves the work across them, on infrastructure you own.

System ASystem BDocumented Interface (API)Event NotificationsMessagesScheduled FilesShared SheetThe Most Reliable Option First

What It Does

Typical Workflows

In many businesses the same details get typed two or three times. From a message into a spreadsheet, from the spreadsheet into the accounts, from the accounts into a reminder. Each handover is a chance for delay or error. Automating the handover keeps the information moving and leaves a record of each step.

Handover

Between Systems

Takes a record from one system, reshapes it, and writes it to the next: an order into stock, a booking into a calendar, a sale into accounts.

Finance

Reconciliation

Matches mobile-money or bank statements to your records and lists the mismatches for a person to review.

Messages

Enquiry Routing

Reads incoming messages, works out what is being asked, and sends it to the right person with the details attached.

Reports

Regular Summaries

Pulls together the daily or weekly figures your team compiles by hand, in the format they already use.

How It Works

From a Manual Process to an Automated One

  1. 1

    The process is mapped as it really happens, including the workarounds.

  2. 2

    The steps that stay with a person are agreed and written down.

  3. 3

    You sign off a plain-language summary of the requirements.

  4. 4

    We build it, check your cloud account or VPS, and roll it out in stages with a rollback plan.

  5. 5

    You get the documentation and runbooks at handover.

Working Together

What You Provide, and What Stays With You

You Provide

What We Need From You

  • Access to the person who does the process today
  • The systems involved, and least-privilege accounts for them
  • Examples of real inputs and the expected results
  • A cloud account or VPS in your name
Stays With a Person

What It Will Not Do on Its Own

  • Anything that reaches a customer or a prospect
  • Irreversible actions
  • Records the rules cannot match

Is It a Good Fit?

Who It Suits

Usually a Good Fit When
  • Information is copied by hand between systems
  • Work waits because someone forgot to pass it on
  • You compile the same report by hand every week
Probably Not the Right Start When
  • Your systems are about to be replaced. Automate after the change

Systems These Workflows Often Touch

SpreadsheetsAccounting softwareMobile-money and bank statementsEmailMessaging appsStock or order systems

Questions

Common Questions

What if one of our systems has no way to connect?

Which systems can be connected is part of the requirements summary you sign off before we build.

What happens when something fails?

Every change has a rollback plan. With the managed service, monitoring and incident handling are included.

Which Handover Costs You the Most Time?

Start with a free, no-obligation process audit of that workflow.

Book a Free Audit