Do you need automation consulting?
You need one conversation and one written proposal, not a consulting engagement. We map the process, name the first system worth building and price it, and you see all of that before any deal is signed, which is what most businesses are really buying when they buy consulting.
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What does a good automation proposal contain?
The problem in your words, the system we would build, every tool it reads from and writes to, one fixed price and one delivery date. If a document is missing any of those five, it is a brochure.
The test is whether an owner who does not write software can read it and know exactly what will exist at the end. Words like scalable, bespoke and end to end do not survive that test. A sentence like “every new lead gets a first message within minutes and a live reply lands with a named agent” does.
The second test is whether it says what will not be touched. A proposal that lists only what it will do is hiding its own scope, and the argument arrives later, at your expense.
What should be automated first?
The thing that is already costing you money quietly, which is almost always a follow up that does not happen rather than a process that is slow. Start where the loss is measurable.
| Symptom the owner describes | First system worth building |
|---|---|
| Leads arrive and nobody replies fast enough | Automated lead outreach and follow up [1] |
| Renewals lapse because nobody chased them | A renewal reminder and quote system |
| Staff spend the morning copying between screens | A data integration between those two systems |
| The month end report takes two days by hand | Automated reporting from the records you already keep |
A real estate agency in the first row converted $662,000 in property sales in 7 days once every lead got answered [1]. Nothing about that build was ambitious. It was the smallest system that closed the most obvious gap, which is what a first project should be.
When is consulting alone the right answer?
When the decision is genuinely organisational: who owns which process, what the business should stop doing, how a team should be structured. None of that is our work and we will say so.
We are a build shop. If what you need is someone to sit with your managers for six weeks and produce a strategy, hire that person. If what you need is for the follow ups to happen, skip the engagement and get a proposal for the system.
The honest middle case is an owner who cannot yet say what the problem is. That is what the first reply is for: we ask questions until the problem has a shape, and that costs nothing.
What does it cost to find out?
Nothing for the conversation and the proposal. The build itself runs from $300 to $9,000, then a monthly maintenance retainer if you want it kept running [2].
The five steps from first message to handover are on how we work, the agents themselves are on custom AI agent development, and what a build delivers in its first month is in what an AI agency delivers in 30 days.
Tell us the problem on the contact page, and you get questions back, then a proposal and a price before any deal is signed.