Business Automation for Small Businesses

Confirmations, reminders, chasing, copying things between systems: the admin you do by hand every week, done automatically.

Running a small business comes with a second, invisible job: typing enquiries into a spreadsheet, sending the same confirmation email again, chasing the invoice you keep putting off, meaning to ask for a review and forgetting. None of it grows the business, and all of it eats your evenings. We build automations that do this work for you, using the tools you already use, so things happen the moment they should instead of when you get round to them.

A website enquiry arriving at 11:52pm automatically triggering a reply to the customer, a row in the jobs spreadsheet, and a morning summary to the owner
One enquiry, three jobs done, none of them by you.

Enquiries handled the moment they arrive

When someone fills in your contact form at midnight, three things should happen: they get a reply confirming you will be in touch, the enquiry is logged wherever you track work, and a tidy summary is waiting for you in the morning. Done by hand, that is ten minutes per enquiry, usually the next day, by which point the customer may have tried someone else.

Automated, it happens instantly. The customer hears back straight away, and nothing gets forgotten, because nothing depends on anyone remembering.

The same email, sent without you writing it

Booking confirmations. Payment received. A reminder the day before an appointment. A message to say you are on your way. You have written these hundreds of times with the same wording, changed only by a name and a date.

These are exactly the messages a machine should send. We set them up once, in your words, and they go out at the right moment without you touching a keyboard.

Invoices chased without the awkwardness

Chasing money is the job everyone puts off, and putting it off is what makes late payment normal. A polite reminder the day an invoice goes overdue, and a firmer one a week later, sent automatically, gets you paid sooner without you having to compose that awkward email even once.

The reminders are written with you, sound like you, and stop the moment the payment lands.

Reminders that cut no-shows

A no-show is not just an empty slot. It is an hour you cannot sell twice. A reminder the day before, with an easy way to reschedule, turns most would-be no-shows into either a kept appointment or a slot you have time to refill.

It runs off your diary on its own. You just see fewer gaps in the day.

Reviews asked for at the right moment

Google reviews win local work, but asking for them is the easiest thing to forget when a job wraps up. An automatic thank-you after the work is done, with a direct link to your review page, turns finished jobs into reviews without you having to remember a thing.

A steady flow of recent reviews does more for a local business than almost any advertising.

The same weekly admin jobs shown done by hand versus automated: enquiry replies, confirmations, invoice chasing and review requests all handled automatically
The same week’s admin, with and without automation.

Built around how you already work

You do not need new software, and you should not have to change how you run your business to suit a tool. We connect the things you already use, your email, your calendar, your forms, your spreadsheet or invoicing app, and automate the steps in between.

Every automation is bespoke. We start with the jobs you repeat most, automate one or two with an obvious payoff, and add more once they have proved themselves. Anything that needs a human decision still gets one. The automation just handles the donkey work either side of it.

Reviews are one of the biggest levers in local search. For how that side works, see our local SEO service.

Frequently asked questions

What eats your evenings?

Tell us the admin you do by hand every week, and we will tell you which of it a machine could be doing within days.

Get in touch

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