STEP TWO — THE BUILD
Working automations in weeks. Not a roadmap — the thing itself.
We take the five highest-ROI workflows from your audit roadmap — wherever in the business they fall — and turn them into running, integrated, documented automations, at a fixed price quoted before you commit.
What it is
Four to six weeks, five automations chosen from your roadmap and placed wherever they'll pay off most — three in finance and two in marketing, one in each of five areas, however they fall. Built against the tools you already use, tested on your real data, delivered with training and documentation. One fixed price, depending on how complex those five are to build — the exact number is in your audit quote, with the audit fee credited in full.
The anatomy of the build
Fixed scope, in writing
The SOW names all five automations, every system each one touches, and the number each has to hit. Additions are welcome — priced and agreed before they start, never scope drift that eats the timeline.
Five builds, one integration surface
Your five rarely live in one system. Auth, data access, error handling, and logging get built once and shared across all of them — which is why five automations cost less than five separate projects, and why the second one lands faster than the first. You own every account, credential, and line of what we build; nothing is held hostage.
Approval before autonomy
Every automation launches in approval mode: it drafts, a human clicks send. Autonomy is granted one automation at a time, by you, when that one has earned it — the invoice coder can be running unattended while the customer-facing reply still waits for a human.
Numbers defined up front
Each of the five ships with its own metric: response time, hours saved, items processed, error rate. Five automations means five numbers, baselined before we start. “Done” means measured, not just deployed.
The build, week by week
- 1Week 1
Detailed design for all five, system access, and a build order that front-loads the riskiest integration
- 2Weeks 2–4
Automations built and integrated one at a time, with a working demo at every weekly check-in
- 3Week 5
All five run on your live data in approval mode while we tune the edge cases your volumes didn't predict
- 4Week 6
Training per affected role, documentation handoff, and the metrics baseline for all five
What your team gets
A training session per affected role (recorded), a plain-English runbook per automation, and a named escalation path for the first 30 days. Five automations usually mean more than one team changes how it works on Monday — so training is scoped by role, not by department, and nobody sits through a session on a build they'll never touch. Adoption is where DIY projects die; we treat it as part of the build, not an afterthought.
After the five are live
Thirty days of included stabilization, then the build is warrantied under an active Care Plan — one flat monthly fee to keep all five running. Most clients watch their numbers for a quarter before adding anything; when they do, additional automations are quoted up front at one fixed price each. Your roadmap already ranked what's next.
The honest version
Five automations is a real four-to-six weeks, and the fifth one is usually the hardest — by then we're into the workflow that has three exceptions nobody documented. If a build turns out to be materially bigger than the audit scoped it, we tell you before we start it, not in week five. The fixed price holds regardless; that risk is ours to carry, which is exactly why the audit exists.
Questions
Before you ask.
Why five automations and not one big system?
What if a workflow doesn't hit its numbers?
Can our five span more than one part of the business?
At a glance
Five automations, one fixed price
Quoted in your audit before you commit · 4–6 weeks · Audit fee credited in full
Find out what AI is actually worth in your business.
Start with twenty free minutes. If there's a real opportunity, the next step is the two-week AI Audit — nothing due upfront, you only pay if we find at least 10 hours a week of work worth automating, and a ranked roadmap that's yours whether or not you build with us.
The call is free. Fewer than 10 hours found and you owe nothing; build with us and the audit fee is credited in full toward your five automations.