Workflows
Process automation
One process, end to end, across every tool it touches. The handoffs, the waiting, the chasing — gone.
n8n, Make, Zapier or plain code
Software automation studio
We automate the work nobody should still be doing.
We design, build and run software automation — the integrations, agents, pipelines and internal tools that carry repetitive work — so your team stops moving data between tabs for a living. Any industry, any stack.
- Median build, weeks
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- Of it you own
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- Build slots / month
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Stack we build on
n8nMakeHubSpotXero
SalesforceAirtableSnowflakeTwilio
ShopifySlackStripePower Automate
ClaudePostgres
What we build
Six kinds of automation. Whatever your stack.
We aren't tied to one industry or one tool. If the work is repetitive and it lives in software, it can be automated — and we ship a working system, documented, with the failure paths handled, then we keep it running.
Plumbing
System integrations
Two systems that were never meant to talk, talking reliably — with retries, backfills and an alert when they don't.
APIs, webhooks, or scraping if we must
Documents
Document automation
Quotes, contracts, invoices and reports generated, sent for signature and filed — no one opens a template.
PDF, e-sign, storage, filing
Language
AI agents
Where the input is messy language: reading, classifying, extracting fields, drafting replies, routing to the right person.
Claude or whichever model fits
Data
Data & reporting
One warehouse, one definition of every number, dashboards that don't need a Monday morning rebuild.
Nightly loads, alerted on drift
Internal
Internal tools
The small unglamorous app your team actually needs: approvals, dispatch boards, bulk edits, an audit trail.
Built in weeks, not quarters
On the bench
Pick a system. Watch it run.
This is the shape of what we hand over — every step, the system it touches, and the one place a human still gets a say. Click a step to read it, or run the whole thing.
Idle · 7 steps ready
How a build runs
Four stages. Fixed scope at each one.
You can stop after any stage and keep everything produced in it. The order matters — each stage is the input to the next.
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Teardown 2 days
We sit with the people doing the work and time it. You get a map of every step, its cost per month, and an honest list of what shouldn't be automated at all.
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Blueprint 5 days
Target architecture, integration list, data contracts, failure handling, and a build estimate you can hold us to. Delivered as a document, not a deck.
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Build 2–3 weeks
Shipped in slices behind a flag, with your team using it from week one. Every run logged, every exception routed to a named human.
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Run ongoing
We monitor, patch and extend it. Monthly report on hours returned and cost per run. Full handover to your team whenever you want it.
Before we build
Three things we check first.
Plenty of processes shouldn't be automated at all. We'd rather say so in week one than bill you for a system nobody ends up trusting.
0× a week
It happens often enough
Below roughly twice a week, the build usually costs more than the time it gives back. We do that arithmetic with you before anyone signs anything.
0clear rule
The rule can be written down
If two people in the room disagree about what should happen, that's a decision to settle — not yet a system to build. Software would only make the disagreement faster.
0APIs required
The systems can be reached
An API is easiest. But a person copying between two screens is automatable too — and that is usually where the biggest win has been hiding all along.
Engagements
Three ways to work with us.
No seats, no per-task pricing, no lock-in. You own every workflow, credential and line of code we write.
Teardown
$2,400fixed
Credited in full against a build.
- Two days on site or on call
- Process map with cost per step
- Ranked automation shortlist
- Build estimate and sequence
Most chosen
Build sprint
$9,800from
Per system, scoped in the blueprint.
- Blueprint and architecture
- One production system, shipped
- Integrations, tests, run logs
- Team training and runbook
- 30 days of fixes included
Embedded ops
$4,200/ month
Rolling, 30 days' notice.
- We run and monitor everything
- Named engineer, shared channel
- Continuous build queue
- Monthly hours-returned report
Questions
Before you book.
Will this replace people on my team?
Usually it replaces the worst four hours of their day. In the teardown we mark which steps genuinely need judgement and leave those with a human — an automation that quietly makes bad decisions costs more than the work it removed.
What happens if a run fails at 2am?
Every system ships with retry logic, an exception queue and an alert to a named owner. Failures don't disappear and they don't silently corrupt data — they wait in a queue with the full payload and a one-click replay.
Do we get locked into your tooling?
No. Everything runs in your accounts, on your credentials, in your repository. If you end the engagement tomorrow the systems keep running and we hand over the runbook.
Where does AI actually get used?
Where the input is messy language — reading emails, classifying tickets, extracting fields from documents, drafting replies. Anything deterministic stays deterministic code, because that's cheaper and it never invents an invoice number.
How fast can you start?
Teardowns typically start within a week. Build sprints begin as soon as the blueprint is signed — we hold two slots per month rather than taking every project.
Two build slots open this month
Let's kill the busywork.
Send us the one process everybody complains about. We'll tell you within a day whether it's worth automating — and what it would take.
Rather just email? hello@aoco.io