AI automation retainers for teams with too much manual work.
Automate Analyze Innovate finds, builds, and manages high-ROTI workflows for ops-heavy businesses using practical AI agents, integrations, dashboards, and system ownership.
3-5 days
audit
1-3 weeks
first build
Monthly
system ownership
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Workflow run
Lead captured, enriched, routed, and followed up.
The old process was inbox, memory, spreadsheet, and status chasing. The new process has triggers, owners, alerts, and a visible result.
New request
Form + inbox
Owner assigned
CRM + Slack
Follow-up drafted
AI agent
Status visible
Dashboard
12.4
hours saved
3
tools synced
1
owner view
0
silent failures
The first target
Start with the workflow everyone already knows is broken.
The best automation opportunities are not mysterious. They are the repeatable handoffs, lookups, reports, follow-ups, and approvals that keep stealing time from the same people.
Someone copies the same data into two or more systems.
A person has to remember who needs the next follow-up.
Reports are rebuilt by hand every week or month.
The business has tried AI tools, but they are not connected to real operations.
A broken script, zap, or webhook quietly creates business risk.
Owners cannot see the work status without asking a person.
What gets built
Practical automation around revenue, ops, reporting, and follow-up.
Lead intake and follow-up
Capture requests, enrich context, route owners, draft replies, and keep the CRM updated.
Field ops handoffs
Turn scheduling, dispatch, job notes, photos, and customer updates into one reliable workflow.
Reporting and dashboards
Replace manual spreadsheet updates with owner-visible reports that stay current.
AI agents with guardrails
Use agents for summaries, drafts, QA, research, routing, and decision prep with human review where it matters.
CRM and tool integrations
Connect the systems people already use so work stops falling between tabs.
Technical rescue
Fix broken automations, brittle scripts, webhook failures, DNS issues, and messy inherited systems.
Offer map
Audit the opportunity. Ship the workflow. Keep it running.
Automation Opportunity Audit
$500-$1,500
3-5 business days
A ranked automation map with savings math, risks, required access, and the recommended first build.
Teams that can feel the manual work drag but need the first high-ROTI workflow identified.
Included
- Workflow and tool-stack review
- ROTI estimate by automation candidate
- Data, access, and risk notes
- Build sprint recommendation
- Retainer fit assessment
Automation Build Sprint
$2,500-$10,000
1-3 weeks
One production workflow shipped, tested, documented, and connected to real operations.
A clear workflow where AI agents, APIs, CRMs, forms, dashboards, or scripts can save hours every week.
Included
- One production workflow build
- AI-assisted intake, routing, or reporting
- API, CRM, form, and spreadsheet integration
- Testing, failure handling, and alerts
- Documentation and handoff Loom
- 30-day stabilization window
Managed AI Automation Retainer
$1,000-$5,000/mo
Ongoing ownership
A monthly operating rhythm for reliability, reporting, fixes, prompt tuning, and new workflow improvements.
Teams that want automations monitored, improved, and expanded without hiring a full-time automation engineer.
Included
- Workflow monitoring and fixes
- Monthly improvement sprint
- Prompt, agent, and integration tuning
- Reporting on time saved and issues caught
- Priority technical rescue support
Before and after
Turn scattered work into a managed operating path.
Before automation
Inbox request
Manual lookup
Spreadsheet update
Reminder from memory
The business depends on memory, tab switching, and status chasing. Nobody can see the real workflow without asking someone.
After automation
01
Trigger
02
AI prep
03
Owner approval
04
CRM + report
The new system has triggers, approvals, fallback paths, alerts, and a dashboard so the workflow can compound instead of becoming another fragile script.
ROTI math
If the hours are real, automation can pay back fast.
Use the calculator to decide whether a workflow should become a build sprint, a retainer, or a future backlog item.
Automation ROTI Inputs
Start with a scenario, then tune the math.
These estimates are directional and are not a guarantee of results.
Best fit
Built for operators who live in handoffs, deadlines, and messy tools.
Home services and field ops
High-volume quotes, scheduling, customer updates, field notes, and repeat follow-up.
Real estate and mortgage ops
Document-heavy, deadline-driven work with lots of status chasing and stakeholder updates.
Agencies and client services
Recurring client requests, reporting, delivery QA, and account-management handoffs.
Sales, RevOps, and CS teams
Sales motions with too much manual CRM hygiene, meeting prep, and follow-up work.
Logistics and inspection teams
Operational details moving across email, spreadsheets, phone calls, portals, and reports.
Support and admin-heavy teams
Recurring requests that need triage, research, internal routing, and consistent replies.
Sendable proof assets
The best sales asset is a clear picture of the manual pain.
For prospecting, discovery, and Upwork-style speed, the offer should be easy to understand: show the workflow, estimate the ROTI, map the first build, then turn wins into a retainer.
Open the Playbook90-second workflow Loom
Show the manual workflow, the current tools, and the exact moment work slows down.
ROTI estimate
Use weekly hours, blended hourly value, automation coverage, build cost, and retainer cost.
Before and after map
Turn scattered steps into one visible operating path with triggers, owners, and exceptions.
First workflow score
Rank automation candidates by time saved, risk, access complexity, and speed to value.
Production process
One useful workflow first, then monthly compounding.
01
Score the workflow
Map volume, hours, cost of delay, error risk, owner pain, required access, and likely ROTI.
02
Ship the first system
Build the smallest durable automation that changes the workflow instead of adding another tool.
03
Launch with guardrails
Add logging, alerts, rollback paths, docs, and human review where business judgment matters.
04
Compound monthly
Monitor, tune, fix, report on savings, and expand the automation map one workflow at a time.
Why AAI
A technical builder who thinks in business outcomes.
Automation work should reduce friction, speed up revenue, improve visibility, and remove recurring manual drag. That takes engineering judgment, workflow design, and practical GTM sense.
Human review where risk matters
AI can draft, summarize, score, route, and prepare. People still approve the moments that need business judgment.
Documented handoff
Every production workflow needs enough documentation that the business can understand how it works.
Savings stay visible
The retainer should report what changed: hours saved, errors avoided, issues caught, and the next automation target.
AI kept practical
No vague prompt theater. The automation has to connect to a real workflow and create measurable leverage.
FAQ
Common questions before the first audit.
Do I need to know exactly what should be automated?
No. The audit exists to find the first workflow with the best return on time invested. A strong starting point is one repeatable task that already annoys the owner, sales team, ops team, or admin team every week.
Is this AI consulting or actual implementation?
The offer is implementation-first. AI is used when it helps the workflow, but the work also includes APIs, CRMs, forms, dashboards, alerts, docs, QA, and practical system ownership.
What makes a retainer worth it?
A retainer makes sense when the automation affects a recurring business process and needs monitoring, fixes, tuning, reporting, or monthly expansion. If the workflow is truly one-and-done, a sprint is usually better.
What tools can this connect to?
The strongest first builds usually connect tools already in place: CRMs, spreadsheets, inboxes, forms, calendars, Slack, Airtable, HubSpot, Make, Zapier, databases, APIs, and custom internal apps.
What is ROTI?
ROTI is return on time investment. It compares the time value created by automation against build and management cost, then helps decide whether a workflow is worth automating now.
Have a workflow that should not still be manual?
Send the workflow, tools, rough volume, and where the process breaks. I will tell you if it is a strong automation candidate and what path I would start with.
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