Workflow improvement & automation

Rebuild Your Operations for the AI Era.

Connect the tools you already use. Reduce manual work, costly errors, and delays across your business.

Target $50,000+ in Annual Operating Value.

Estimated from your workflows, workload, and operating costs.

catalog-update preview → release → read-back
  1. parseSupplier price list5,887 SKUs
  2. matchExisting listings7,073
  3. diagnoseComparable prices3,286
  4. approvePrice tier and scopea person
  5. writePrice updates, with rollback386
  6. read-backWritten = calculated386 / 386
Stages and figures from production runs on a ~64,000-product online catalog. Read the case

64,000

products in an online catalog, audited and kept accurate

21,531

product records entered into legacy software without manual typing

99.68%

of 2,838 product images uploaded and verified

5 min → 30 s

to locate a showroom sample

All figures come from production systems. Each case explains how they were measured.

The problem

Work your team keeps doing by hand

The software may work well on its own. Moving information between tools often takes more time than it should.

between systems

Copy, paste, repeat

Your team keeps copying the same data between systems. Orders, products, prices, inventory and supplier information move by hand between SaaS platforms, spreadsheets, PDFs and internal tools.

in files and memory

Data that lives in someone’s head

Important business data lives in spreadsheets, PDFs, websites or people’s memory. The information exists, but the organization cannot use it consistently.

on the website

The website says one thing, the shelf another

Prices, stock and images online drift away from what you actually sell. Supplier price lists change, image links break, and products go live without prices — and nobody can fix thousands of listings by hand.

in the core system

A core system you’ve outgrown

Your POS, ERP or SaaS works — but not for the way you work now. Replacing it looks risky and expensive; keeping it means employees do the same workaround every day.

between teams

Each department has a different record

Sales, purchasing and the warehouse keep separate records. Staff have to check which version is current before they can act.

document handling

Someone has to read every file

Supplier PDFs and spreadsheets arrive in different formats. We can help extract the information, match it to your records and flag uncertain results for review.

Who it’s for

For teams working with orders, stock and supplier data

If your business runs on products, orders, inventory, suppliers and customers — and your team spends part of every day moving that information between systems, spreadsheets and PDFs — this is for you.

These projects often start with a spreadsheet, a price list or a task that takes too much of someone's day.

Typically teams of 5 to 200 people, where operations are too complex for spreadsheets alone but too specific for an off-the-shelf platform to fit perfectly.

You will probably recognize at least one of these

  • A supplier sends a new price list, and someone spends days updating it.
  • The website, the POS and the spreadsheet each show a different stock number.
  • One person knows where everything is — and everything stops when they are away.
  • Your core system works, but everyone does the same workaround every day.
  • You are thinking about switching systems, and afraid of what will break.

Start here

Workflow Reconstruction

This is our starting service: improve one recurring piece of work, such as updating prices or passing orders from sales to purchasing. We first look at what can be done with the tools you already have.

Where to start

A task you repeat

Show us how the work is done today, which files and systems it uses, and where staff spend the most time.

What we do

Work through it with your team

We agree on a better process, build the necessary tools and test them with normal cases and exceptions.

What you receive

Tools and a clear way to use them

The working tools, instructions, review points and a comparison with the old process. Changes to business data include a recovery plan.

Services

The work a project can include

You do not need to choose a software package first. Once we understand the work, we agree on which of these services the project needs.

start here

Workflow Reconstruction

Choose one recurring task. We work through how it is done, build the tools it needs and check whether the changes save time or reduce mistakes.

website

Website & Catalog Operations

Keep a large product website accurate: products, prices, images and stock updated in bulk, every change reversible and verified.

AI

AI-Assisted Operations

Use AI to read documents, suggest matches or prepare drafts. Staff review uncertain results and approve business decisions.

Method

From the current process to a tested solution

  1. 01

    Understand

    See how the business actually operates: roles, systems, repeated actions, data sources, decisions, exceptions.

  2. 02

    Rebuild

    Decide what to automate, what stays human, what data needs structure, and where systems connect.

  3. 03

    Build

    An automation, an internal tool, an integration, a data pipeline, an AI-assisted workflow, or a website operation.

  4. 04

    Integrate

    Work with the systems already in place — or migrate to a new one when the operating model requires it.

  5. 05

    Validate

    Test against real cases: exceptions, human review, source checks, and read-back reconciliation.

How we check the work

  1. Rule 1

    Measure, don't assume.

    An image is “working” only after a real request loads it — not because the file name looks right.

  2. Rule 2

    Every write can be undone.

    Bulk changes run in preview first and ship with a rollback.

  3. Rule 3

    Disable, don't delete.

    Deleting breaks links and history; hiding does not.

How we work

Cases

Examples of the work

These seven projects come from one business with a store, warehouse, a 64,000-product catalog and dozens of suppliers. They show different parts of the same operation.

  1. 01

    online catalog

    Keeping a 64,000-product online catalog accurate

    Supplier prices, images and stock kept drifting out of sync with a 64,000-product website.

    386 / 386

    price updates verified correct after writing

    Measured
  2. 02

    POS migration

    Moving from a legacy POS to Square

    The old POS fed the whole back office: order follow-up, delivery, purchasing and commissions.

    66,000+

    products in the old POS; tooling built and dry-run

    In progress
  3. 03

    legacy software

    Automating data entry into legacy desktop software

    Product and receiving data were typed by hand into desktop software that could not be replaced.

    21,531

    product records entered without manual typing

    Measured
  4. 04

    orders & purchasing

    Reconnecting sales and purchasing

    The same order information was re-entered and reorganized across sales and purchasing.

    ≈ 67.7 h

    of manual work removed each month

    Operating estimate
  5. 05

    price & stock lookup

    One lookup for prices and inventory

    Staff searched supplier price files, internal stock and supplier stock separately.

    ≈ 40,000

    products in one lookup; 2,000+ lookups a month

    Operating estimate
  6. 06

    showroom

    Tracking showroom samples

    Finding a showroom sample, and whether it was installed, depended on memory and walking around.

    5 min → 30 s

    to find a sample

    Operating estimate
  7. 07

    supplier documents

    Turning supplier documents into structured product data

    Invoices, price lists and spec sheets arrived as PDFs and spreadsheets in every format, and were re-keyed and cross-checked by hand.

    44 / 45

    models matched in a trial against ~6,500 records; 10 ambiguous matches sent to a person

    Tested

Also: built from zero — zeror.ca

Project status

What is running and what is still being tested

Some workflows run in production. Others are tested but not yet in daily use, and a few are only designed. We label which is which.

See the full status board

  • In productionWebsite catalog pipeline · image pipeline · legacy software entry · price & inventory lookup
  • TestedInvoice structuring · SKU matching · specification enrichment
  • In progressLegacy POS → Square migration
  • DesignedSupplier change detection · scheduled catalog updates

Existing systems

Start with the software you have

We usually start by improving the workflow around your existing ERP, POS, SaaS, website, spreadsheets, legacy desktop software and supplier systems.

When the operating model has outgrown the core system, we help you switch — without losing the business rules, data and habits that made the old one work.

Sometimes a small tool is enough. Sometimes the core system needs to change. We work out which applies before choosing the software.

People and systems

Agree on what staff need to review

Tools can prepare data and carry out agreed rules. Pricing, purchasing and uncertain matches still need a named person to review or approve them.

Systems do

  • Collect, move, format and convert data
  • Match, look up and consolidate
  • Repetitive entry and bulk updates
  • Rule execution and verification
  • Drafts, diagnostics and recommendations

People decide

  • Ambiguous cases
  • Business exceptions and approvals
  • Pricing and purchasing decisions
  • Customer-specific situations
  • Final accountability

Depending on the job, we use APIs, scripts, document extraction or a small internal web tool. AI can help read files and suggest matches; it does not approve prices or purchases.

Which task takes too much time?

Tell us how your team does it today and which software and files are involved. We can work through where a tool or a different process would help.

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