Operations Automation Sprint — typically $10K–$30K+, fixed fee
One expensive workflow, removed in 3–8 weeks — for a fixed fee you agree to before we build.
You already know which process this is. We scope it, confirm the economics, and remove it. If the numbers don’t hold, we say so before a fee is set.
- The one where your team rekeys the same data into three systems, chases the same status emails, or manually routes every exception. It functions only because people are absorbing it.
- Every week it runs the same way, it takes hours off your team, sends errors to customers, and shows up as hiring pressure on the org chart.
- A short automation discovery maps the actual workflow, prices its real cost to the business, and confirms the fix before a build fee is set.
Tell us the workflow. Within 24 hours we’ll tell you whether it’s worth fixing. If it is: a 30-minute scoping call, then a written scope and fixed fee before any work starts.
$10K–$30K+
typical fee, fixed after discovery and scoping
3–8 weeks
typical engagement — weekly working demos, not status updates
Yours to keep
discovery findings, whether or not you build
You can name the workflow and someone in the business owns its cost.
The team has a workaround — it functions, but it requires people to manage it every time.
Growth made the coordination overhead visible: more locations, acquisitions, or volume added coordinators doing the same manual step.
Adding another coordinator no longer solves the throughput problem.
The workflow your team has a workaround for costs more than you’ve accounted for.
Count the hours. Count the errors. Count the coordinators you added to keep up.
Every week it runs the same way, it takes hours off your team, sends errors to customers, and shows up as hiring pressure on the org chart.
Every week the workflow runs unchanged, the cost runs with it. Discovery answers whether it’s worth fixing before any fee is committed.
Discovery, scope lock, build, handover. Fixed fee. Weekly working demos.
Automation discovery
We map the actual workflow, price its real cost to the business, and confirm the fix makes economic sense. If it doesn’t, we say so before a fee is set. You keep the findings either way.
Scope lock
Success criteria, assumptions, and exclusions in writing before any build starts. You sign off on what “done” means and what the fixed fee is.
Build with weekly demos
Working progress, not status updates. You see it running before handover. Every line reviewed by a senior engineer before it reaches production.
Handover
Code, documentation, and a walkthrough. The operating knowledge transfers to your team — not just the artifact.
How the return is measured
What the fix can be
The workflow removed — not a roadmap for removing it.
The fix, whatever form it takes, is handed to your team with the code, integrations, and documentation to own it without us.
The simplest technology that solves it
The simplest technology that solves the problem is what gets used — whether that’s an integration, a workflow rule, or AI where it earns its place. The deliverable extends what you already run wherever possible. No new platform to maintain, no new vendor dependency.
Deliverable 01
The workflow removed
One bounded engagement removes it entirely — not a strategy for removing it, not a platform to manage.
Deliverable 02
Production-ready code
Your team can maintain and modify it without us.
Deliverable 03
Documentation for the owners
Written for the people who will own it, not for the people who built it.
Deliverable 04
Handover walkthrough
Operational knowledge, not just a deployed artifact.
The commitment
Typically $10K–$30K+, fixed after discovery and scoping.
The economics are confirmed before you pay to build. ROI is framed in operational terms: hours removed, cycle time cut, errors eliminated, headcount avoided.
The sprint assumes the workflow can be isolated to a bounded scope and that someone in the business owns its cost. Discovery confirms both before the fee is agreed. Actual timeline and fee depend on workflow complexity and the systems involved.
Bounded builds that removed the work.
Freight brokerage operations — document intake
An AI document-intake service classifies and parses BOLs, load confirmations, and rate confirmations into structured records. Manual data entry eliminated across the operations team. The back-end infrastructure now runs carrier grids in the millions of rows.
Contract management SaaS — roadmap unblocked
A legacy data extraction bottleneck was blocking the product roadmap. Removed in 4 weeks. 50,000+ records extracted. Core product development unblocked. One bounded engagement; team capacity returned at close.
flexTrax Solutions — a bounded build, running the business
Point-of-sale platform with native FSA processing. Initial platform shipped in a 90-day build cycle; $800k ARR within 10 months. Delivered to production and running the business.
Who scopes and builds it
Brandon Shuey has built and run the systems behind real operations — brokerage document intake, pharmacy dispensing, pipeline SCADA, point-of-sale with FSA processing. 30 years shipping production systems since 1996. Founder, CEO, CTO, or architect five times. The person who scopes the fix is the person who builds it: founder-led, fixed-fee, full ownership at close, no account manager between you and the person making the technical decisions.
We tried to automate this before and it broke when the process changed.
Scope is bounded and written down before we start, including the assumptions the build depends on. At handover you get the code and the documentation to adapt it. We’re not the only ones who can maintain what we ship.
Our workflow is messier than it looks from the outside.
That’s exactly what discovery is for. We map the actual workflow — not the documented version — before the fee is fixed. If the real scope changes what the fix costs, that surfaces in discovery, not in week three.
Do we need to buy a new platform or subscribe to a new tool?
No. The deliverable extends what you already run where possible. AI gets used only where it earns its place. No new platform to maintain, no new vendor dependency.
What if the economics don’t justify the build?
We say so before the fee is set. No build is proposed.
How is this different from an automation agency or a no-code shop?
Fixed scope and written success criteria before build starts. Every line reviewed by a senior engineer before it reaches production. You own the code, the integrations, and the documentation — no proprietary runtime, no vendor lock-in.
Right fit
The problem has an identifiable economic owner, the workflow can be isolated to a bounded scope, and the first step can be a short discovery that confirms the economics before the fee is set.
Not a fit
A fix that would require open-ended scope or ongoing involvement to stay functional — discovery will surface that before the fee is agreed. Staff augmentation, broad AI transformation programs, and commodity content are not this engagement.
What happens next
- 01
Tell us the problem — two minutes.
- 02
Direct answer within 24 hours on whether it’s a fit.
- 03
If it is: a 30-minute scoping call.
- 04
Written scope, timeline, and fixed fee before any work starts. You keep everything delivered.
Actual timeline and fee depend on workflow complexity and the systems involved.
Final step
One workflow removed. Bounded scope. Fixed fee.
Discovery confirms the economics before the fee is set. Scope, success criteria, and fixed fee in writing before build starts. Three to eight weeks later, the workflow is gone and your team owns the fix.
No pitch. No prep. If it’s not a fit, I’ll tell you.