
The 7 workflows we automate first for ops-heavy B2B teams.
If you're running ops and wondering which process to automate first, this is the list we reach for before any of the fancy stuff.
If you run operations at a B2B services, sourcing, or project heavy business, you know the pattern: your team spends half its week in spreadsheets, email chains, and status meetings that should have been a link.
The question isn't “should we automate?” It's “which workflow is worth doing first?” These are the seven we reach for before anything glamorous, because they have predictable payback and show a team the shape of what's coming next.
Before: how this usually looks
- Team is stretched across 8 or more SaaS tools
- Copy-paste between tools is a daily activity
- “Can you send me the latest list?” is a weekly question
- Leaders can't get a straight answer on simple metrics
- Status meetings exist mostly because information is scattered
What we built: the 7 workflows
Each of these is a single internal app on its own link. Your team uses it, we host it, we monitor it.
- Client intake & onboarding hub. One paste, one click, contract + Slack + PM tool + CRM updated.
- Weekly ops summary. AI reads your Slack updates, calendar, and tool activity and writes the weekly summary, so no one writes it manually at 9pm Sunday.
- Smart inbox triage. Categorise incoming emails, draft the 80% of replies that are standard, flag the rest for a human.
- Quote & invoice generation. Standard inputs, branded PDF out, logged in the CRM.
- Vendor and partner data sync. One source of truth, automatic reconciliation across the three tools that used to disagree.
- Project status rollup. No more update meetings. Your leaders get a daily status page with the 12 things they actually care about.
- Internal knowledge search. Ask the company. An AI app that answers from your own docs, SOPs, and recorded meetings.
After: what typically changes
- 15% to 40% reduction in manual admin hours per week
- Weekly ops meeting shortens by half, or disappears entirely
- 3 to 5 tools consolidated into a small number of internal links
- Errors from copy-paste drop near zero (the app doesn't mistype fields)
- Leaders finally get the daily or weekly numbers they've been asking for
One design choice that mattered
We pick workflows where the gain is obvious in the first 48 hours. If a team can't feel the weight lift off its calendar in the first week, the automation is probably the wrong scope.
Boring wins beat ambitious pilots every time. The second workflow is easier to sell than the first, and the tenth is easier than the second. Sequencing matters.
Book a 30-minute AI workflow audit.
We'll map the first 1 to 3 automations in your business that should “just run themselves,” plus what they'd be worth if they worked.