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Quote and follow-up
Capture an enquiry, check that the required details are present, prepare a draft quote, route it for approval, send it and schedule the follow-up.
Faster responses and fewer missed opportunities.
Practical AI and websites for small businesses
Automate repetitive work, put company knowledge to use and reduce your reliance on SaaS. We also build websites and custom software around the way your business runs.
Own more of your operating stack
Get off the SaaS treadmill. Where it makes sense.
Keep what earns its place. Consolidate the overlap. Replace the right subscriptions with systems you control.
We compare the full cost of hosting, migration, maintenance and support before recommending a move.
Explore SaaS independenceThree approaches we can explore
Open-source software
Adapt an existing solution
Custom builds
Build around the way you work
AI alternatives
Rethink repetitive work with AI
We assess open-source software, custom builds and AI alternatives against your workflows, access needs and full operating costs.
Make company knowledge useful
Give your team a better place to ask.
Connect approved procedures, policies and useful answers to an AI knowledge system. Help people find the right information and prepare work with sources they can check.
- Process guideApproved
- Support answersApproved
- Old pricing sheetNeeds review
- Restricted customer recordsNo access
Example questionHuman review before sending
How do we handle a new enquiry?
Check the request is complete, assign an owner and prepare a draft response. Have a person review it before sending.
View example source: Process guide / Enquiries
Example process: review the incoming details, ask for missing information, assign the enquiry and prepare a response for approval. This sample illustrates a source link; it is not connected to company documents.
Begin with one team, a defined source set and 20–30 real questions.
Explore the AI Company Brain01 / The hidden operations tax
If a process only works because someone keeps pushing it along, it is costing more than it looks.
Repetitive admin fragments attention, slows customers down and makes experienced people spend their day moving information between tools. The process may look small each time. Repeated across a week, it becomes a real operating cost.
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Customer details copied from emails into spreadsheets.
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Quotes assembled, checked and recalculated by hand.
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Inbox requests sorted and answered one at a time.
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Data cleaned and reformatted before every report.
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This is usually not a staffing problem. It is a workflow problem.Appointments booked, rescheduled and chased manually.
Try the flow
Small steps.
A smoother day.
Choose a step to see it in action.
A new request comes in.
The useful details arrive together.
An interactive example; nothing is sent.
02 / Where to begin
Start with the work your team repeats every week.
The best first automation is frequent, rules-based and easy to measure. We connect the steps around the work, not just one clever AI feature in isolation.
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Spreadsheet and data processing
Collect, clean, deduplicate, categorise and reconcile data; update the right system; and send exceptions to a person for review.
Less rework and a more dependable source of truth.
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Customer support
Classify incoming questions, find relevant approved information, draft a response, prioritise urgent cases and escalate anything uncertain.
A shorter queue without pretending every question is routine.
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Inbox and administration
Extract tasks, dates and customer details from messages; file documents; update records; and prepare the next action.
Less inbox triage and fewer details lost between tools.
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Scheduling and reminders
Qualify the request, check availability, book or reschedule, send reminders and flag conflicts that need a person.
Less back-and-forth and fewer avoidable no-shows.
AI handles predictable steps.
People stay responsible for important decisions.
03 / See it in action
One enquiry. One connected workflow.
A quote request should not create five separate admin jobs. Here is what a practical quote-to-booking workflow can do.
QUOTE-TO-BOOKING / SCROLL TO EXPLORE
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Receive
A customer request arrives through email or a form.
SAMPLE ENQUIRY / 001
Monthly office cleaning. Starting next week.
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Structure
The workflow extracts the details, validates required fields and updates the right record.
SAMPLE ENQUIRY / 001
Service: office cleaning. Frequency: monthly.
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Draft
A quote is prepared from approved pricing rules, terms and templates.
SAMPLE ENQUIRY / 001
Draft prepared from approved pricing. Awaiting review.
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Approve
A team member reviews exceptions and approves the quote before it is sent.
SAMPLE ENQUIRY / 001
A team member reviews and approves the draft.
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Book
Acceptance updates the pipeline, offers an available slot and triggers confirmations and follow-ups.
SAMPLE ENQUIRY / 001
Accepted quote. Example slot confirmed. Follow-up scheduled.
An illustration only; nothing is sent or booked.
The customer gets a faster response. Your team stops retyping the same information. You keep approval before anything important is sent.
04 / A practical engagement
Automate one bottleneck. Prove the saving. Then expand.
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Diagnose
We map the current process, its volume, delays, exceptions and risks. Together, we choose a first workflow with a useful, measurable outcome.
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Build
We connect the relevant tools, create the workflow and add clear review points, logging and failure handling.
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Prove
We test with real examples, train the people who use it and compare the result with the original process.
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Improve
Once the first workflow is stable, we can maintain it, refine it or apply the same approach to the next bottleneck.
Websites & ongoing care
A better front door. Someone to look after it.
Your website is part of the way your business works. We design it around a clear message and useful enquiries, then agree the care it needs after launch.
Web Design
Build a clear, responsive website with useful content and enquiries that reach the right place.
A clear message. A useful next step.
Explore serviceMaintenance & Support
Keep websites and workflows maintained with agreed updates, backups, monitoring and support.
Ongoing care. Clear responsibilities.
Explore serviceSoftware & product development
We build the software behind the experience.
WordPress plugins, custom plugins for applications such as Figma and Adobe apps, browser extensions, and connected applications. Our experience includes JavaScript, Three.js, Ruby on Rails, React and PHP, with GitHub supporting the way we collaborate, review and release code.
- WordPress plugins
- Figma & Adobe app plugins
- Browser extensions
- JavaScript
- Three.js
- Ruby on Rails
- React
- PHP
- GitHub
MaxiBlocks
A builder and extensive design library, designed and built by our team, including the icons. Product design and plugin development working together.
Divi Den
Our work on design libraries and tools for Divi is part of the product experience we bring to custom software and WordPress projects.
We also build focused alternatives to SaaS subscriptions and rebuild suitable WordPress websites in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, removing the published site’s reliance on WordPress and plugins.
05 / Is this a good first project?
This works best when the problem is boring.
Repetition is the clue. A clear, frequent task usually creates more value than an ambitious but undefined AI idea.
A strong fit
- The same process happens many times each week.
- Staff copy, check, clean or chase information by hand.
- A process owner can explain the rules and exceptions.
- The necessary data and system access are available.
- Improvement can be measured.
Probably not yet
- The underlying process changes every time.
- Nobody owns the workflow or can approve decisions.
- The goal is full autonomy for a high-risk decision.
- There is no way to test the output safely.
- The project is mainly about appearing innovative.
06 / Work with what already works
You do not need to replace everything.
We design around the tools your team already uses: spreadsheets, inboxes, customer databases, forms, document systems and calendars. Where a tool cannot connect safely or reliably, we will say so before building.
The exact technology comes after the workflow, not before it.
07 / A few things, explained
Good questions.
Straight answers.
What to expect before we connect a single tool.
Do we have to replace our current software?
We assess what to keep, connect, consolidate or replace. A SaaS independence review compares essential features, dependencies and the full cost of running an alternative before recommending a move.
Is everything fully automated?
No. Important decisions, unusual cases and sensitive actions should remain visible to the right person. We automate predictable work and design clear handoffs for exceptions.
What kinds of tasks can you automate?
Good candidates are repetitive, rules-based tasks involving email, spreadsheets, forms, documents, customer records and calendars. Quoting, data cleaning, support triage, scheduling, reminders and recurring reports are common examples.
How long does a first workflow take?
A focused sprint is typically planned as a two-week build once scope, access and decisions are ready. Complex integrations, unclear rules or poor-quality data may take longer; that will be surfaced during scoping.
What happens with sensitive business or customer data?
We map what data the workflow needs, minimise access, document where information moves and choose controls appropriate to the risk. Sensitive workflows are not launched until access, review and failure handling are understood.
What if our process is messy?
That is common. The diagnostic separates necessary exceptions from accidental complexity. Sometimes the best first improvement is to simplify the process before automating it.
Is this just a chatbot?
No. A support workflow may include an assistant, but the real product is the connected process around it: intake, data, rules, review, action and measurement.
Do you also design and maintain websites?
Yes. We plan, design and build business websites, and agree maintenance and support separately. Website projects and care plans are scoped around the work you need.
What is an AI Company Brain?
It is a knowledge system that helps staff find answers and draft work from approved company sources. It includes visible sources, access permissions, review of outdated information and a correction process.
Can you help us move away from SaaS?
Yes, where the alternative is a good fit. We start with one category, compare licence and operating costs, test the migration and keep a rollback path.
A SMALLER FIRST STEP. A BETTER WAY TO WORK.
What could work better in your business?
A repeated task, scattered knowledge, a costly subscription or a website that needs attention. Tell us where you are starting and we will help you work out the next step.
One useful improvement. A clear way forward.