AI automation for operating businesses

Your team's busywork, running itself.

We build the automations that run your repetitive work end to end — connected to your CRM, inbox, and calendar, on your own accounts — then keep them running. Fixed prices, live in days, yours to keep.

See what we build
Otto asks 3 quick questions and tells you which automation fits — and what it'd cost. ~60 seconds, no call required.
Start with a $999 audit (credited)
Fixed builds $3–30k
Yours to keep
workflow · lead-intake running
1
New lead received
webform → parsed name, budget, timeline
2
Qualify against your criteria
budget ≥ target, area match, pre-approval check
3
Draft a personal reply
matched 3 options, your tone, your sign-off
4
Book the meeting
calendar checked, invite sent, reminder set
5
Update the CRM
stage: qualified → meeting scheduled
human touched this: 0 times runs today: 47
Runs on the tools you already use HubSpotGmailGoogle CalendarSlackQuickBooksStripeWhatsAppCalendly
The problem we solve

AI tools don't run your business. People do — and they're buried.

Chatbots answer questions. Your team still does the work in between: copying data, chasing follow-ups, updating five systems. That's the layer we automate.

Hours lost to glue work

The average SMB team spends a third of its week moving information between tools that don't talk to each other.

Leads that go cold

A lead answered in 5 minutes converts far more often than one answered in 5 hours. Nights and weekends included.

DIY tools that stall

Off-the-shelf builders get you a demo, not a system. Without someone owning it, automations quietly break and get abandoned.

What we build

Automations for the workflows that actually cost you money

Every engagement starts with your real process, not a template. These are the shapes most builds take.

Revenue

Lead intake & follow-up

Capture, qualify, respond, and book — from any source (web, portals, email, WhatsApp) — with every touch logged in your CRM. No lead waits until morning.

Operations

Back-office pipelines

Invoices matched, documents filed, orders synced, reports assembled and sent before you ask. The Friday spreadsheet updates itself.

Service

Client communication

Status updates, appointment reminders, review requests, and renewal nudges — in your voice, at the right moment, escalated to a human when it matters.

Knowledge

Internal answer engine

An automation that knows your listings, policies, pricing, and past deals — so your team stops digging through folders and asking the one person who knows.

Ready to configure

Automations we can configure to your stack

Proven builds we tune to your tools and turn on in days, not weeks. Each one lands in a pricing tier below — pick one, or let Otto find the right fit.

Revenuelive in ~5 days

Lead Responder

Answers and books every inbound lead in under 60 seconds, day or night.

web · portals · email → your CRM
Tier 2 · $3–5k
Servicelive in ~3 days

Review Booster

Asks happy customers for a review at the right moment; routes unhappy ones to a human first.

job done → SMS · email · Google
Tier 2 · $3–5k
Servicelive in ~3 days

Appointment Reminder

Confirms, reminds, and reschedules no-shows automatically — and fills the gap from your waitlist.

calendar → SMS · email
Tier 2 · $3–5k
Operationslive in ~5 days

Invoice Matcher

Reconciles invoices against POs and payments, files the paperwork, and flags the one that doesn't add up.

inbox → accounting
Tier 2 · $3–5k
Revenuelive in ~7 days

Quote-to-Cash

Turns an approved quote into an invoice, schedules the job, and updates every system — no re-keying.

CRM → invoicing · calendar
Tier 3 · $5–10k
Operationslive in ~7 days

Onboarding Autopilot

Runs a new client through onboarding end to end — docs, accounts, welcome sequence, and hand-off.

CRM → docs · email · tasks
Tier 3 · $5–10k

Preconfigured, so they're live in days — fully custom builds follow the tier timelines below. Not sure which fits?

And you're never in the dark

See what your automations did — in plain English

A simple dashboard shows every run, the hours it saved, and anything it flagged for you. No logging into n8n, no black box.

See a sample dashboard →
Pricing

Pick the row that sounds like you

Fixed prices, no hourly billing, no scope creep. Start with a $999 audit — it’s credited in full toward whatever you build.

What’s true for you right now?
Don’t know which process to automate
One job, one system
02 · 2–4 wks
Single-process automation
$3–5k
fixed
The work spans multiple tools
03 · 4–8 wks
Multi-system automation
$5–10k
fixed
Your team needs a screen to run it from
04 · 8–12 wks
Automation + interface
$12–30k
fixed
Something is already live
05 · Ongoing
Care & improvement
$750–2.5k
per month

Every automation in the catalog above maps to one of these tiers. Not sure which row fits? That’s what the audit is for: $999, credited in full.

The price is fixed for everything on our supported-integrations list. Anything custom, we quote at the audit — before we start — so the number never moves after you sign.
Ownership

Yours to keep.

No proprietary platform to rent from us. Your build runs on open infrastructure in your own cloud — and the care plan is for operating it, not holding it hostage.

  • It runs in your own cloud account, on your API keys — your infrastructure, your billing.
  • Your workflows, data, and configuration are yours, documented in plain English.
  • We reuse our own generic building blocks across clients — so you’re not paying to reinvent the wheel, and your build still belongs to you.
  • Cancel the care plan anytime and keep a fully working system. We just step back.

The honest version

You own your build and your data outright. We keep the reusable, non-specific pieces we’ve built before (that’s what keeps your price down and your timeline short) — never your process, your data, or your automation.

built once · run for you · owned by you
How it goes

From audit to a running automation

Diagnosis first — we only build what pays for itself. Build length depends on the tier; the shape is always the same.

Days · $999

The audit

We map your workflows and find the one automation that returns the most, fastest — and hand you a fixed scope and price. Credited toward the build.

2–12 weeks

Design & build

We design the pipeline, connect your tools, and build it with guardrails and human checkpoints. Timeline scales with the tier; catalog builds ship in days.

Shadow run

Prove it on real work

It runs on your live data in shadow mode. You review its output in plain English until you trust it — then we flip it on.

Ongoing

We keep it running

Monitoring, updates, and a monthly report on hours saved and outcomes delivered. You run the business; we run the automation.

FAQ

Straight answers

What exactly is an "automation" versus a chatbot?

A chatbot answers questions. Our automations do work: they make decisions, take actions across your tools — sending the email, booking the slot, updating the record — and know when to hand off to a person.

How is this different from a freelancer or dev shop?

Most hand you a system and move on, so you’re on your own when it breaks. We keep yours running — monitoring, fixing, and improving it every month — while you still own everything.

Why not just use a no-code tool ourselves?

You can, and for simple triggers it’s a fine start. The hard part is connecting your real systems, handling edge cases, and keeping it alive as APIs and models change. That’s the work you’re paying us to own.

Do I own it — and do you reuse it?

You own your build, your data, and your configuration outright, running in your own cloud. We keep our own generic, reusable building blocks (the parts that aren’t specific to you) so every client gets a faster, cheaper build — we never reuse your process or your data.

What does the care plan cover?

Everything that keeps it reliable: monitoring, error recovery, platform and model updates, and refinements as your process evolves — plus a monthly report in outcomes. It runs $750–2.5k/month depending on how much we operate.

What if it makes a mistake?

Every build includes guardrails: approval steps for consequential actions, confidence thresholds, and automatic escalation to a human — all visible in plain-English logs. You choose how much autonomy it gets, and expand it as trust grows.

Free automation plan

Get your one-page plan

Tell us the task you'd hand off and we'll send back the automation that fixes it, a rough on hours saved, and a fixed price — no call required.

  • A specific automation matched to your workflow
  • Which tier it lands in, and the fixed price
  • An estimate of the hours it gives back each week
Where should we send it?

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Get started

Tell us the task your team dreads.

Find your automation in 60 seconds with Otto, or book a call. Then a $999 audit gives you a fixed scope and price — credited toward the build.