Automation

Your team, 50% more productive.

At about 20% of what the same work costs you today, and with better accuracy than the version a tired person does at five o'clock.

A department of five, today
Today
50 hrs a week
Automated
20 hrs a week
30 hours backEvery week, in one department, without letting anyone go.

Where the time goes

Your team is busy. Most of it is work a machine can do.

Every department carries tasks that repeat every day. They are not the job. They are what gets in the way of the job.

Nine departments, and every one of them has a version of this.

See what yours is carrying →

Click any department to see what changes.

Find the opportunities

We do not guess at what is automatable. We go and find it.

Two weeks inside your business. An operator in the building, and a tool your team talks to for an hour each, mapping every task, system, decision and handoff.

See what is possible if you built your business around the automation, robotics and equipment currently available.

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SPEAKING

The assessment at work. It asks its own follow-up questions until the picture is complete.

Define the projects

Every improvement priced, so you can choose.

The assessment comes back as a list of fixes with a number on each one: what it adds to EBITDA, what it costs to deliver, how long it takes and the return. You select the ones you want and they add up into your plan.

You pick the order and the pace.

See what comes back →
Owner view · Millwork
A 40-person millwork shop
EBITDA impact
+$219k a year from 13 priced improvements, 36 more to price
all 49, one after another+$219k87 wks$136k+ $58k/yr1.6×
ImprovementAdditional EBITDATime to implementCost to deliverROI 
Let others price quotes over $20k
Estimating and quoting
+$125k
10 wks
$25k + $5k/yr
5.0×
Select
Take admin off sales for more new names
Sales
+$73k
18 wks
$32k + $18k/yr
2.3×
Select
Keep one live schedule everyone can see
Dispatch and scheduling
+$8k
6 wks
$15k + $4k/yr
0.5×
Select
Let senior crew answer routine shop questions
Field and production
+$7k
5 wks
$8k + $1k/yr
0.9×
Select
Chase overdue invoices automatically and earlier
Finance and accounting
+$3k
2 wks
$3k + $2k/yr
1.0×
Select
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Select the improvements you want and they add up in your plan. EBITDA is per year, after each fix’s running cost. ROI is year-one EBITDA divided by cost to deliver. marks a cost or timeline that is still an estimate.
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Illustrative. Figures are from a sample assessment, not a live client.

Automate

Four parts of the business, 21 workflows that no longer need a person in the middle.

We start where the hours and the cost are, not where the software is easiest to install. Each project is installed in weeks, not a committee and eighteen months.

Most owners start with one and never look back.

Start with one →
01

Management

Knowing what is actually happening this week, not waiting for month end.

  • Corporate Strategy
  • Corporate Development
  • Investor Relations
  • Chief of Staff
02

Administration

The back office where people retype numbers from one system into another.

  • HR
  • Payroll
  • Accounting
  • Finance
  • Talent Management
03

Go to market

Leads that go cold, quotes that take days, calls nobody picks up.

  • Digital Marketing
  • Sales Enablement
  • Outbound Sales
  • Inbound Sales
  • Customer Support
04

Production

What happens between the order and the shipment, and where it stalls.

  • Procurement
  • Inventory Management
  • Preventative Maintenance
  • Material Handling
  • Equipment Technicians
  • Integrators
  • Health and Safety

Keep it running

Agents that keep working after we are gone.

Each workflow runs as an agent with a function and a number it owns, hired onto your bench the same way we hire a person. We stay on to maintain them.

We earn our right to stay in the business.

Meet the bench →

Management

4 agents

Administration

5 agents

Go to market

5 agents

Production

7 agents

We find the money before we build anything.

Two weeks. Your P&L, your quote log, your aging, an hour with each department head. You get a ranked list of what to run first and what each one is worth.