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The Monday-morning process, running itself

Every company has a manual routine nobody questions because it has always been done by hand. We take one, automate it end to end, and make it tell you when it breaks.

Typically 1–2 weeks
Workflow automation
The Monday routine, running itself

01

The Monday routine, running itself

Someone exports a file, cleans it, pastes it somewhere and sends an email. Every week, for years, because it has never been anyone's project to fix. We turn that into something that simply happens, and the hours it was quietly eating go back to the person who was doing it.

  • The process automated end to end
  • Failure alerts into Slack or email
  • An admin view so a non-engineer can re-run it
  • Handover doc for whoever owns it next
It tells you when it breaks

02

It tells you when it breaks

Failure alerts into Slack or email with enough context to act on — which step failed, on which record, and what to do about it. An automation that fails silently is worse than the manual process it replaced, because at least a person notices when they skip a week.

Runnable by a non-engineer

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Runnable by a non-engineer

A small admin view so whoever owns the process can re-run it, check the last result and fix a bad input themselves. Automations that need a developer for every hiccup get quietly abandoned within a quarter, which wastes the whole build.

Documented for whoever inherits it

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Documented for whoever inherits it

A handover document covering what it does, what it touches, and how to switch it off — written for the person who takes it over after you, not for us. The test is whether a new hire can understand it without a meeting.

How it runs

Same four steps, every project

  1. 01

    Scope

    A call, then a one-page scope: what gets built, what it costs, what date it lands, and what is explicitly not included.

  2. 02

    Build

    The core of the thing first, on your infrastructure from day one. A working demo every Friday, whether the week went well or not.

  3. 03

    Harden

    The parts everyone skips — empty states, errors, retries, analytics, and the case where a user does something strange.

  4. 04

    Ship

    Live, with monitoring and a handover doc. Two weeks of support included, then you take it or we stay on.

Pricing

What this usually costs

The exact number comes out of the scoping call. These are the shapes it takes.

Standard

Monthly · pause or cancel anytime

$2,000per month

One active build at a time, delivered in order. The plan most founders start on — enough to get a product live and keep it moving.

Priority

Monthly · pause or cancel anytime

$3,600per month

Two builds running in parallel and a faster turnaround, for when there is a launch date someone else already committed to.

Embedded

Monthly · 1 month minimum

from $7,500per month

Dedicated capacity that behaves like a team member — in your standups, on your roadmap, accountable for a slice of the product.

Other things we build

Tell us what you need built

Thirty minutes, free, no proposal. You leave with a scope, a number, and a date — or an honest reason why we’re not the right people.