Start here: general automations
The automations almost every business needs.
You do not have to be a travel agent, an estate agent or an online store. Most businesses lose the same hours to the same admin: email, enquiries, quotes, chasing, spreadsheets and reporting. These systems work whatever you sell and whoever you sell it to.
Why this page exists
Industry pages are useful. They are also not the point.
Industry pages help because the language and the workflows differ. But the underlying problems rarely do. A brewery, a packaging supplier, a consultancy and a manufacturer all answer emails, send quotes, chase people who go quiet, rekey data between systems and rebuild the same report every month.
If you looked at the industry list and thought none of those is quite us, this page is the one that matters. Everything below applies regardless of sector, and it is where most first systems get built.
The universal ones
Six problems nearly every business has.
Email that never stops
Every business gets email, and most of it says the same things. Replies drafted in your tone, ready for approval, instead of typed from scratch. From £7 per day.
An inbox nobody can see the bottom of
Urgent, routine and noise separated automatically, so the thing that actually matters is not sitting under forty newsletters. From £9 per day.
Quotes that go out slowly
Whatever you sell, the fastest decent quote usually wins. Priced consistently, sent quickly, instead of waiting for a free evening. From £8 per day.
People who go quiet
The single most common revenue leak in any business. Enquiries and quotes chased automatically until they turn into a yes or a no. From £7 per day.
Invoices nobody enjoys chasing
Polite reminders before the due date, firmer ones after, and a flag to you when a debt needs a human decision. From £5 per day.
Spreadsheets and the monthly rebuild
Every business has a spreadsheet somebody maintains by hand. Data pulled together and reports assembled without the copy and paste. From £7 per day.
Also common
Worth building once the basics are running.
Records that drift out of date
Your CRM, database or job sheet updated from what actually happened, rather than from whoever remembered to type it in.
Reputation left to chance
Any business with happy customers can have public proof of it. Asked for automatically, at the right moment.
Back and forth over times
Appointments, site visits, calls and demos booked without the email tennis.
Questions arriving out of hours
A chatbot trained on your business that answers at 11pm, captures the lead and hands anything sensitive to you.
Marketing that never gets done
Newsletters, posts and updates drafted in your voice, published only once you approve them.
The same job, across three systems
Work moved between the tools you already use, so nothing gets rekeyed and nothing gets forgotten.
Where to start
One system first, not all of them.
Nobody should buy this list. The audit exists to find the one workflow costing you the most hours right now, and that first system gets built and tested before any billing starts. Most businesses start with email, follow-ups or quotes, because those three tend to pay back fastest.
Systems run from £4 to £30 per day depending on scope, volume and how many tools they touch. See pricing for how that is worked out.
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