AI & Agentic Automation
Hand the boring, repeated work to software
Every business has work that needs doing daily but needs no real judgement — reading invoices, chasing approvals, preparing the same report, answering the same twelve questions. AI agents and n8n workflows can take that on. I build the ones that genuinely work, and I am honest about the ones that do not.
What you end up with
- Repetitive desk work handled without a person in the loop
- Invoices, POs and statements read and entered automatically
- Routine internal questions answered instantly by an assistant
- Reports that build themselves overnight and land in your inbox
- Staff time moved to the work that actually needs a human
Signs you need this
If two or three of these sound familiar, it is probably worth a conversation.
- People spend hours reading documents and typing what they find into a system
- The same twelve questions get asked internally every single day
- You keep hearing about AI but every proposal sounds like a demo, not a solution
- Routine follow-ups get missed because they depend on someone remembering
- You want to try AI on something real without betting the business on it
What is actually delivered
Not a statement of intent — the concrete artefacts and outcomes you receive.
Automation opportunity map
Every repetitive task in your operation, assessed honestly for whether AI, a plain rule-based workflow, or neither is the right answer.
n8n workflow automation
Reliable connected workflows across your existing tools, with retries, alerting and a clear view of what ran and what failed.
Document understanding
Invoices, purchase orders, bank statements and forms read automatically, with confidence scores and a human check on anything uncertain.
Internal AI assistants
An assistant that answers questions from your own data and documents — grounded in your systems, so it does not invent answers.
Agents with guardrails
Agents that take real actions, with strict limits on what they can touch, approval steps on anything consequential, and a full log of every action.
How the engagement runs
- 01
Find
Identify the repetitive work and check which parts are genuinely suited to AI.
- 02
Pilot
Build one workflow end to end and measure it against how the task runs today.
- 03
Guard
Add limits, approvals, logging and fallbacks before anything touches live data.
- 04
Expand
Roll out to the next tasks once the first one has earned trust.
AI & Agentic Automation: common questions
It will, occasionally — so nothing consequential happens without a check. Low-confidence results route to a person, actions that touch money or stock need approval, and everything is logged. AI is used where a mistake is cheap and catchable, not where it is expensive.
That is the only sensible way. One workflow, built end to end, measured against how the task runs today. If it does not clearly beat the current process, we stop — and you have spent very little finding that out.
Almost never. Existing models plus your own data and good engineering around them covers nearly every business use case. Training a custom model is expensive, slow, and rarely the actual constraint.
For some tasks, yes — reading documents, drafting, classifying, answering questions from your own data. For others, a plain rule-based workflow is more reliable and far cheaper. The skill is knowing which is which, and building guardrails and human checkpoints wherever a mistake would be costly.
Only if you choose that, and only where it is appropriate. Where data sensitivity requires it, workflows can be built so that confidential data never leaves your systems. We decide this deliberately, before anything is built.
For connecting tools and automating workflows, n8n is faster to build, easier for your team to understand, and much easier to change later. I write custom code where the logic genuinely needs it — but reaching for code first usually just makes the automation harder to maintain.
AI & Agentic Automation in your industry
The problems look different in each of these, so the way I approach them differs too.
Services that usually go with this
ERP Implementation & Consulting
From selection to go-live, without the six-figure disaster
Business Process Automation
Remove the manual work that quietly eats your margin
Accounting, Reconciliation & Revenue Assurance
Stop losing money you never knew you were losing
Want a straight answer on your situation?
Thirty minutes, no pitch. I'll tell you what I would do and what it costs.