Automation & integration
Move routine work between the tools you already use
Take the copying, retyping and chasing out of a process, while keeping a clear route for the cases that need a person.
Who this is for: Teams whose work is spread across an inbox, a spreadsheet, a CRM and a folder structure, with a person moving information between them.
Working system available
A working in-house system in this family is available to demonstrate. Its case study shows representative behaviour, safeguards and limitations, together with any measured result and the limits of the run that produced it. No client outcome is claimed.
You will recognise this if…
- The same information gets typed into two or three systems because nothing joins them up.
- Rules and filters were set up once and have quietly stopped matching as templates changed.
- Work sits waiting because nobody has noticed it arrived.
What we deliver
- Email and shared-inbox automation
- CRM updates and hand-offs
- Form, spreadsheet and database workflows
- Approvals, alerts and task creation
- Scheduled reporting
- Document routing and filing
- API and webhook integrations
- Migration away from brittle manual processes or disconnected automations
- Monitoring, failure notifications and maintenance
Common builds
Concrete systems in this family, described the same way the free Snapshot describes them.
AI email triage
Incoming mail is read, classified, prioritised and routed before anyone opens the inbox.
A triage layer on your existing mailbox that categorises each message, flags what is urgent, routes it to the right person and drafts a reply for the cases that repeat. Nothing sends without a person approving it.
Meeting intelligence
Meetings are transcribed, summarised and turned into actions and follow-ups automatically.
Transcription and summarisation wired into where the work actually lives: actions extracted and assigned, records updated, and a follow-up drafted for the organiser to check and send.
Reporting automation
Recurring reports assemble themselves, with the numbers checked and the changes explained.
A scheduled process that collects the figures from their sources, builds the report you already produce, flags anything that moved unusually, and writes a short commentary on why.
Scheduling and appointment automation
Booking, reminders, rescheduling and follow-up handled without the back-and-forth.
A booking flow that offers real availability, confirms, reminds, handles the reschedules and follows up afterwards — removing the email thread that currently sits between an enquiry and a date in the diary.
Marketing assistance
Content drafted, repurposed and scheduled from material you have already produced.
A workflow that turns the work you already do into marketing output — case notes into posts, long pieces into short ones — in your own voice, with a person approving everything before it goes out.
How we work on this
01
Understand
We watch the process as it runs today and write down what happens when it goes wrong, not only when it goes right.
02
Design
We decide what the automation handles, what it escalates, and what it is never allowed to do.
03
Build
We build it against real examples, including the awkward ones, and put failures somewhere visible.
04
Hand over
You get documentation, monitoring and a way to change the parts that will need changing.
Systems we connect for this
- n8n
- Make
- Zapier
- Microsoft 365
- Google Workspace
- Slack
- Airtable
- HubSpot
- Custom APIs
We connect the systems your team already uses. Naming a platform here means we can integrate with it, not that we are partnered with or endorsed by it.
Evidence
Working in-house systems in this family, shown with representative behaviour, safeguards and limitations.
Proving an AI inbox sorter before a client relies on it
In-house evaluationOperations and admin158 of the 165 messages this system filed automatically were filed correctly, on a 250-item held-out set it was not designed from, with none of the seven errors high-severity. It is the fourth version, and the fourth pre-registered evaluation. Three of the four found something that had to be fixed, and all four are published — including the one that proved our own prediction wrong.Both readiness gates met · 250-item held-out evaluation
Turning invoice attachments into a reviewable register
Working in-house systemFinance operationsFiles an incoming invoice in the right place and prepares a register row from it, with the extracted figures sitting next to the original document so a person can check them.Working system · formal evaluation pending
Questions
- What happens when the automation gets something wrong?
- That is a design question we answer before building. Every workflow we build has a defined destination for uncertain or failed items — a review queue, a flag, an alert — because an automation that fails silently is worse than no automation.
- Do we have to move to new software?
- Usually not. Most of this work connects the systems you already pay for. Where we do recommend a new tool, we will say what it costs and what it replaces.
Next step
Describe the process that prompted you to read this page. If it is a good fit we will say so, and if it is not we will say that too.