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  • the tedious.
  • the manual.
  • the repetitive.
  • the follow-ups.
  • the handoffs.
  • your busywork.
I automate the tedious, manual, and repetitive work that eats your week, so your team can focus on what actually matters.
software that

RunsItself

The tedious work that's eating your week, handled quietly in the background
so your team can spend their days on what actually matters

Engineered to run while you sleep
Est. 2024Small batchShips in 2–6 weeks
Hands-off opsbuilt in MaineChecked by a human
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What I Do For You

Services

Done-for-youFour ways to save your team hours
01 / Connect your tools

Connect the tools
you already use

You're probably bouncing between five or ten apps all day. Every handoff is a place where something gets dropped, or someone spends twenty minutes copy-pasting. I make those handoffs invisible.

  • Works with your existing tools
  • Catches the edge cases
  • Tells you when something breaks
02 / Paperwork, handled

Pull what matters from
PDFs, forms & emails

Invoices, contracts, applications, inbound orders. Instead of someone typing the fields into your system line by line, it reads every document, pulls what matters, and drops it straight into your CRM or spreadsheet.

  • Reads scanned and digital docs
  • You approve the uncertain ones
  • Straight into your system
03 / Numbers that stay fresh

Your dashboards,
always up to date

No more rebuilding the same weekly report by hand. The numbers pull themselves from wherever they live (your tools, competitor sites, public data) and land in one place, clean and current.

  • Runs on a schedule you set
  • Pulls from wherever the data lives
  • Tells you the second it breaks
04 / Inbox on autopilot

Draft, tag, and route
without you

Inbound email sorted, tagged, and with first-draft replies ready in your voice. You skim, tweak, send. The ones that actually need your attention get flagged. The routine ones handle themselves.

  • Works in the inbox you already use
  • Sounds like you wrote it
  • Flags what actually needs you
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Work

Shipped & runningCase studies · 2024–26
Featured Case Study2025

Sales Call Grader

Sales leadership was losing a full day every week listening to calls to grade their reps. Now every call gets scored the moment it ends. The summaries land in their CRM before Monday standup, and managers got their Fridays back.

−70%
QA time cut
100%
Calls graded
24/7
Always on
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A subscription tracker that kills forgotten charges. Reminds you before trials flip to paid, shows where your money's actually going, and gives you one-tap cancel links. No account, no tracking.

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How I Work

The Process

Measured & deliberateFour steps, one builder
01 / Watch

See how the
work happens

I watch how the work actually gets done today. Every decision, every manual step, every exception nobody wrote down. No assumptions about where to automate until I've seen the real thing.

02 / Build

Ship something
rough, fast

Within a week you've got a working version you can poke at with your real data. It's ugly on purpose. Seeing it beats planning it every time, and we learn what it actually needs.

03 / Toughen

Make it
boring

The boring parts (what happens when it fails, who gets told, how you roll it back) are what separate a cool demo from a system you can actually leave running. This is where most automations fall apart. Mine don't.

04 / Stay

Run it
with you

After launch I'm still around. Docs, dashboards, a number to call. When something upstream changes and the whole thing threatens to fall over, I'm the one who fixes it. Not you.

The Builder

Ethos

Automation, built like software should be

Most “AI automations” in the wild are demos dressed up as products. A Zap that works twice then silently drops a record. A chatbot that hallucinates on the third prompt. A scraper that nobody notices has been broken for six weeks.

I build the other kind. When it breaks, you'll hear about it before your customers do. When the AI is unsure, a human sees it first. When something upstream changes and the whole thing threatens to fall over, I'm the one who fixes it, not you. The point of automation is to take work off your plate, not become the newest thing you have to babysit.

Based in Maine. I take on a handful of projects a year so each one gets the attention it deserves. If you're tired of hacked-together workflows that need a weekly pep talk, we'll get along.

Something eating your week?

Let's kill the busy work.

Free 30-minute call. We talk about what's eating your week, what could be handed off, and what it would take. You leave with a plan whether or not we end up working together.

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