A.L.E.X.
Area · automation and software robots

Business automation, done end to end

We take on the repetitive work that eats your time: taking and sorting enquiries, assembling documents, reports and reconciliations, moving data between programs. We start with one task.

What is in this section
  • →The first stepone task
  • →We workinside your systems
  • →The map of routinestays with you
The exact scope and timing are fixed after the diagnostic — before that nobody has an honest picture.
Who it fits

When people come to us with this

The four conversations people most often arrive with.

People are eaten by manual copying

Copy from an email into a spreadsheet, from the spreadsheet into the accounting system, from there into a report. Necessary work — but the person in it is a courier, not a specialist.

Order rests on one person

One employee knows everything, and when they are on holiday the work slows down. We move the order out of that head into clear steps.

You heard the word "implementation" and took fright

The timescales quoted on this market are frightening, and understandably so. We start with one task that has an end.

Many systems, no picture

CRM, accounts, stock and spreadsheets live apart, and a person reconciles them. The numbers disagree, and the argument becomes about who copied what wrongly.

Outcome

What stays with you afterwards

Hours come back to people

Repetitive actions stop taking up the day. The point is not to manage without people, but to let them do what you hired them for.

Order stops depending on memory

The steps are written down and run the same way — whether everyone is in or half the team is away.

The map of your routine stays with you

Which operations repeat, how much time they eat and which of them are worth handing to a machine. That document is yours — it works with us and without us.

How the work goes

A clear order, no surprises

1 · A conversation

Half an hour about your work: what repeats every day, who does it and how much time it eats. No access to your systems is needed at this step.

2 · A map, and one task chosen

We show where the hours go and pick one task: the one that eats the most time and depends the least on particular people. The map stays with you either way.

3 · We take it into service

We build the piece inside your own systems, switch it on and stay around: we watch what it actually does and tell you what changed and why.

The figure is named in a quote for your task, once it is clear how many steps the work has, where they live and what has already been done before us. There is no price list here on purpose: every business has its own set of steps, and an "average price" means averaged work.

Evidence

Look at the work, not at the words

These are numbers from our own work, not a promise about yours. Under each one there is a source and a period: the code puts them there when the page is built, not the author of the text.

—tasks accepted: result checked and taken
—median task time: from brief to accepted
—business lines running at the same time

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Where the figures come from
  • tasks accepted: result checked and taken

    A task is accepted once the result has been read, checked and taken. There is no second word for this on the site: “accepted” and “completed” mean the same thing.

  • median task time: from brief to accepted

    A typical task: half of the tasks in this window went faster, half took longer. This is NOT an average: one long task cannot pull the number up, so the median describes an ordinary day more honestly.

  • business lines running at the same time

    How many different businesses the agency runs at once. A line counts if it has at least three tasks in the log; internal test runs do not count.

Straight talk

What we do ourselves and what we do with partners

We do this ourselves

We automated our own working setup ourselves: tasks, schedules, builds, reports and the checking of results run without hands — and this website is assembled the same way.

Sorting and triaging incoming enquiries runs live on our own flow of enquiries, not on a demo stand.

Assembling documents and regular summaries out of data is our own machinery — the same one we use on ourselves.

We build this out for you

Working inside somebody else’s environment — access, systems, permissions — is what we build out for each client. That is why we keep the first step small: one piece of work, a result you can see.

We run this with a partner

A heavy accounting-system rollout from scratch we run with a specialist contractor; our job is to choose them, tie it into the wider picture and answer to you for the timing.

Where a partner does the work, we stay your single point of contact: we pick the contractor, set the task, watch the timing and answer to you for the result. The contract names the contractor honestly — no "we do everything in-house".

Questions

What people usually ask

Where do we start if we want to automate everything?
With one task. In the review we pick the one that eats the most hours and depends the least on particular people, and take it into service. The rest comes after the first one starts giving time back.
What is RPA in plain words?
A program that repeats the same actions a person does in the same windows: open the email, copy the number, put it into the system, report back. It decides nothing by itself — which is exactly why it is reliable where the steps are identical.
Will we have to change the programs we work in?
Usually not. First we try to connect what is already there. Replacing a system is an expensive story, and offering it first would not be honest.
What happens to the people who did this by hand?
They stop shuffling data. How much time is freed we work out in the review, in hours and at your rates — and we say plainly if it turns out to be little.
Enquiry

Let us look at your task

Half an hour about how your work is done — no access to your systems and no commitments.

We call back during working hours. Company details are optional — if you give them, we read the open registries first and come to the conversation prepared.