Automation + operations dashboards

Stop re-keying. Start seeing.

Custom-built automation that takes the daily manual admin off your plate, and live dashboards that show your whole operation at a glance. Built around the systems you already run, on infrastructure you own.

Live operations dashboard — KPIs, job completion trend and a live traffic-light job feed.

Sound familiar?

Most small manufacturers, trades and service businesses run on the same quiet time-sink: a person, a spreadsheet, and a morning of typing things the business already knows.

The morning admin ritual

Every day starts the same way: open the emails, open the spreadsheets, and re-key the same numbers into the same system before real work can begin.

Double-entry everywhere

Suppliers send spreadsheets. Customers send emails. Your ERP wants it typed in again. The same order line gets handled three or four times before anything gets made.

No live view

To know how the day is tracking, someone has to go and ask. The state of the operation lives in people's heads and yesterday's spreadsheet, not on a screen anyone can glance at.

What we build

No off-the-shelf platform, no subscription to yet another tool. We build small, sharp systems around what you already use.

Email & spreadsheet ingestion

The system reads the emails and spreadsheets that land in your inbox every day and feeds them straight into the systems you already run — your ERP, Asana, job boards.

Live operations dashboards

A traffic-light view of the whole operation on the factory-floor TV, plus per-station views so each workstation sees exactly what matters to it, right now.

One-click reorder boards

Stock that's running low surfaces on a board, and reordering it is one click — not a stocktake, a phone call and a purchase order typed from scratch.

Prediction emails

Instead of typing updates in, your staff get an email showing what the system is about to do — and they verify it. Checking is faster than typing, and mistakes get caught before they happen.

Works with your systems

Nothing gets ripped out. The automation slots in between the tools you already pay for and know how to use — it does the ferrying so your people don't have to.

Deterministic and auditable

These systems follow fixed, testable rules — the same input always produces the same output. Every automated action is logged, so you can always see exactly what happened and why.

Proof: the factory that stopped re-keying

A real build, running in production today for Phoenix Packaging, a Central Coast box manufacturer.

The problem: every morning, two suppliers emailed through their work-in-progress spreadsheets, and an admin re-keyed them into the company ERP, line by line. Same job, every day, before the real work started.

What we built: the system now reads those supplier emails as they arrive, matches each order line to the right job, and emails a predicted update before the manual pass would have started. Staff verify the prediction instead of typing the data. On day one it matched the human 14 out of 14.

  • A live traffic-light dashboard, grouped by machine, on the factory floor TV — plus per-station views for each workstation.
  • A one-click stock reorder board.
  • Every automated write is journalled and reversible; new write paths run in shadow mode until they've proven themselves.
  • Runs entirely in the client's own Azure account in Sydney — roughly $40/month all-in to operate.
14/14
predictions matched

Agreed with the human pass on day one

~$40/mo
to run, all-in

Client's own Azure account, Sydney region

627
automated tests

Run before every release

33
production releases

Shipped and running in production

We used to start every morning re-keying supplier spreadsheets before anyone could trust the job board. That's gone. The floor has a live board now, and the numbers are right. Everything looks amazing.
David McPherson — Director, Phoenix Packaging
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Built safely, from day one

Automation that touches your business data has to earn trust. Every build follows the same staged approach, and your data stays in Australia.

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Read-only first

The system starts by watching and reporting. It writes nothing until you've seen it understand your data correctly.

2

Shadow mode

Before any write path goes live, it runs in shadow mode — predicting what it would do while a person still does the job — until it has proven itself.

3

Reversible writes

Every automated write is journalled. If anything ever needs unwinding, it can be — cleanly, without guesswork.

4

You hold the off switch

It runs in your accounts, on your infrastructure, with your data staying in Australia. One lever switches us off, any time you like.

How it's built: we build these systems using AI-assisted engineering, which is how a small team ships them fast and thoroughly tested. The systems themselves are deterministic — plain, rule-based software that behaves the same way every time.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about automation builds.

Will it break our existing systems?
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No. Every build starts read-only — the system watches and reports before it ever writes anything. When a write path is added, it runs in shadow mode first, predicting what it would do while a human still does the job, until it has proven itself. Once live, every automated write is journalled and reversible.
Do we need new software?
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No. We build around what you already have — your ERP, your email, your spreadsheets, your job boards. The automation slots in between the systems you use today rather than replacing them. If you're after a tool your staff or customers actively log into and work in — a portal, a booking or quoting system — that's a web app rather than automation.
What does it cost?
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Every job is scoped and quoted individually, because every operation is different. Once built, most systems run on tens of dollars a month of cloud infrastructure — in your own accounts, so you see the bill directly.
Who owns it?
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You do. The system runs in your own cloud accounts, on your own infrastructure, and you can switch us off with one lever at any time. There's no lock-in and nothing held hostage.

Got a morning admin ritual you'd like to kill?

Book a 20-minute call and walk us through it. We'll tell you straight whether it's worth automating — no pressure, no obligation, no jargon.