The same handful of jobs, in every trade.
Different industries lose their week to different tasks, but the shape is always the same: information arrives in one form and somebody retypes it into another. Here is what that looks like in the businesses we work with.
E-commerce & group buy
Selling in the comments is effortless for the customer and punishing for you.
What eats the week
Every comment has to be read, understood, checked against stock, replied to, and typed into an order. A busy post outruns the person handling it, and the ones that get missed are the ones that were ready to pay.
What we automate
- Each comment is classified first — an order, a question, or neither — so the noise never reaches a person.
- Quantity, variant and delivery preference are pulled out of ordinary language, including the messy phrasing real customers use.
- The customer is matched to their account, the order is created, stock is reserved, and the confirmation goes out.
- A supplier's post becomes a draft product — name, variants, price, images — for you to approve rather than type.
Trade & wholesale
The margin is in the paperwork nobody wants to do.
What eats the week
Purchase orders, supplier deliveries, part shipments, costs that only become clear at month end, and invoices that need chasing by someone who would rather be selling.
What we automate
- Deliveries received by scanning against the purchase order, so short shipments surface at the door instead of at month end.
- Landed cost lands with the receipt, not in a reconciliation weeks later.
- Stock is one figure across every warehouse, not a spreadsheet per location.
- Overdue invoices are chased on a schedule and stop the moment payment arrives.
Multi-location retail
Two shops and a storeroom is three versions of the truth.
What eats the week
A customer asks whether the other branch has it. Somebody phones. Stock moves between shops and gets written down later, or not at all, and the online shop sells what is no longer there.
What we automate
- Transfers between shops are recorded as they happen, on a phone, by whoever is carrying the box.
- One stock figure that the shop floor, the storeroom and the website all read from.
- Reordering triggers on the real number instead of somebody's memory.
- Daily takings and stock movements compile into the report you currently build by hand.
Food & grocery distribution
Short shelf life turns admin delay into money thrown away.
What eats the week
Batches and expiry dates tracked on paper, deliveries grouped by whoever is packing, and a short delivery from a supplier discovered long after it could be disputed.
What we automate
- Batch and expiry captured at the point of receiving, by scanning, not by transcribing.
- Delivery notes generated and grouped the way the driver actually drives.
- Discrepancies against the purchase order flagged while the driver is still standing there.
- Customer orders from social posts land as real orders against real, current stock.
Clinics & appointment businesses
Your front desk is doing data entry between patients.
What eats the week
The booking system and the calendar disagree. Reminders go out when somebody remembers. A cancellation frees a slot that nobody fills because nobody notices in time.
What we automate
- Bookings, changes and cancellations stay in step between the booking system and the calendar, without retyping.
- Reminders and confirmations go by text on their own schedule.
- The front desk stops copying the same name and number into a second screen.
- Enquiries that arrive after hours are captured instead of lost.
Light manufacturing & packing
You find out you are short of something at the worst moment.
What eats the week
Recipes and pack sizes live in someone's head. Material shortages appear when the run has already started. Finished goods take a day to show up in stock.
What we automate
- Bills of materials and work orders that know what a run will consume before it starts.
- Component shortages flagged against the schedule, not discovered on the floor.
- Output booked into stock by scanning as it is packed.
- Costs per run built from what was actually used.
Your trade is not on this list?
It rarely matters. If your team repeats something every day, the problem usually has the same shape as one of these.
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