Every automation conversation starts the same way. Someone describes the job they already know is painful. That job is usually real. It's rarely the expensive one.
The work that costs the most is the work nobody mentions, because it's been part of the routine so long it stopped registering as a problem. The double entry between two systems. The report someone rebuilds every Monday morning. The twenty minutes a day spent chasing a number that lives in three places and disagrees with itself.
You can't get at that on a call. You get at it by standing in the business and watching what people actually do.
Thirty minutes, and you send us a list of every system you pay for. That's the whole preparation. We deliberately don't send a questionnaire — the point is that we haven't been told what to look for.
We spend the day with the people doing the work, not in a meeting room with the owner. We watch jobs run start to finish. We count things: how many times the same number gets typed, how long a quote takes end to end, where work sits waiting, what gets done twice.
Then you get the report, and a call to walk through it if you want one. Everything in it is costed, and anything worth building is quoted.
It's a written document, and it's yours whether or not you ever build anything with us.
Hours per week against a loaded hourly rate. One number per bottleneck, and a total at the top. Every other figure in the report is measured against it.
Some are a process change and cost nothing. Some are configuring software you already pay for. Some need something built. We say which is which, in that order.
Priced the way we price everything — one-fifth of what it saves you in a year. Written into the report, not sent through after a follow-up meeting.
The bottlenecks where custom software is the wrong answer. If everything we find happens to need code from us, you shouldn't believe any of it.
One total, on the first page. That's the number worth arguing about.
If you go ahead with a build of $10,000 or more, the full fee comes off the price — the report costs you nothing. Below that it credits at half. Either way you keep the document.
Regional and remote sites are quoted separately — flights to some parts of Queensland and WA cost more than the fee. Interstate visits are for businesses where the likely build is $15,000 or above; below that, remote costs you less and gets you the same answer.
Every page on this list is drawn from the same Raw Blend build — different problems, same operating model.
Anywhere staff retype values from one business tool into another — tracking numbers, invoices, orders, time sheets. A small automation owns the bridge so people don't have to.
One credential surface, one dashboard, one set of automations covering every entity. Adding the next brand or location is a 30-minute job.
Custom processors tuned to a specific weekly input/output task. Margin Manager, Discount Manager, supplier feeds — same pattern, different industries.
How to migrate brittle workflows to a custom Python platform without losing the speed advantage you bought no-code for.
When your accounting system needs to talk to something it doesn't natively support — and the off-the-shelf sync tools fall over on your edge cases.
One URL to bookmark, one-click triggers, one-click log access, zero recurring SaaS. The kind of dashboard staff actually use.
Tell us what the business does and roughly where it hurts. If the job is small and obvious, we'll just quote it. If it's big, or you can't quite name it, that's what the report is for.
The first call is free · Report in 2-3 days · Credited against the build