£7 to £18 per day
About £210 to £540 per month, billed only once the system is built, tested and accepted.
Brocklesby AI guide
AI spreadsheet automation for businesses
Turn spreadsheets from manual admin traps into useful operating tools that update, track and report with far less repeated work.
At a glance
Typical cost and time saved.
2 to 4 hours saved a day
Roughly 60 to 120 hours of admin a month, because the system runs weekends and evenings too.
£3.50 to £4.50 an hour
The cost per hour of skilled time replaced. Unlike a person doing repetitive admin manually, a well-designed workflow can run consistently outside normal working hours while people keep control of judgement, exceptions and important decisions.
Typical, illustrative figures for common versions of this system. Real scope and outcomes vary by business.
What spreadsheet automation solves
Spreadsheets are often where a business starts to outgrow manual admin. They hold enquiries, jobs, orders, customers, invoices, stock, reports and task lists. The problem is not that spreadsheets are bad. The problem is that people waste hours copying information into them, cleaning columns, chasing missing details and building the same report every week.
Brocklesby uses AI and workflow automation to make spreadsheets work in the background. Instead of treating Google Sheets or Excel as a dead file, we can turn it into part of the operating system of the business.
Typical workflow
From manual copy and paste to automatic updates
A common workflow is simple. A customer submits a form, sends an email or places an order. The automation extracts the useful details, adds them to the right spreadsheet, labels the status, sends a notification and prepares the next action.
That can remove the repeated admin that usually happens between tools. It also reduces the chance of someone forgetting to update the sheet or making a small data entry mistake that causes confusion later.
- Add enquiry details to a sheet automatically
- Update statuses when a task moves forward
- Create weekly summaries without manual reporting
- Flag rows that need human attention
- Push data from forms, inboxes and CRMs into one place
How Brocklesby approaches spreadsheet automation
The first step is not to automate everything. The first step is to understand which spreadsheet tasks are repeated most often and which ones cause the most friction. Some businesses need lead tracking. Others need job status updates, stock logs, customer follow-up sheets, finance admin or weekly management reporting.
Brocklesby maps the existing process, identifies the safest first workflow, then builds a system that connects to the tools you already use. The automation can be fully automatic where the task is low-risk, or it can prepare updates for human review where judgement matters.
Example spreadsheet automation
A service business receives enquiries by email and contact form. The owner manually copies each enquiry into a spreadsheet, marks the lead source, decides who should reply and tracks whether anyone followed up.
A Brocklesby workflow could collect the enquiry details, identify the service type, add the lead to a sheet, label the email, draft a reply and schedule a follow-up if nobody responds. The owner still sees the important leads, but the basic admin is handled consistently.
Where human oversight still matters
Spreadsheet automation should not blindly change important records without checks. For high-value jobs, sensitive customer issues or unusual entries, the system can flag the row and ask for approval. This keeps the speed benefit while avoiding careless automation.
The aim is practical time saving, not a fragile spreadsheet monster that nobody understands. If the system cannot be explained simply, it is probably too complicated for the first version.
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