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Automation with AI

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20h2.5h
difference17.5 h back every week
Who it is for

Who AI business automation
is built for.

01 Owners who want AI to save real hours

You have tried ChatGPT and want the same help inside your processes, not in a browser tab.

02 Operations and finance leads

E-mails, PDFs and forms are read, sorted and retyped by people every day — the classic case for AI workflow automation.

03 Teams with sensitive data

Clinics, law firms, accountants and manufacturers who need AI that runs on their own server or under strict business terms.

04 Companies with automation that stops at unstructured text

Your workflows and RPA bots handle fixed fields and break on free text, scans and exceptions.

The problem

Why AI without a process
rarely pays off.

Numbers from McKinsey’s 2025 State of AI survey, Gartner and the US Census Bureau — almost everyone uses AI somewhere, few have it working inside their processes.

01 88%

of organisations use AI regularly in at least one business function — but only about a third say they are scaling it.

02 39%

report any impact of AI on enterprise-level EBIT, and most of those put it at under 5%.

03 51%

of organisations using AI have seen at least one negative consequence; nearly a third of all respondents cite AI inaccuracy.

04 30%+

— at least 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025 — over data quality, risk controls, cost or unclear value.

05 23%

of organisations are scaling an agentic AI system somewhere in the business; another 39% are only experimenting.

06 19.8%

of US businesses reported using AI in their business in May 2026 — the national rate; 37% among firms with 250+ employees.

→ Your
numbers

Put your monthly volume into the calculator and see hours and dollars.

The workflow

AI workflow automation:
13 nodes, AI only where it helps.

The run path of one incoming item — an e-mail, a document or a form. Model steps do the reading and writing, code checks every result, and anything uncertain stops and goes to a person.

Every node

Every node of the
AI automation workflow.

Read01 / 13
Trigger

New item arrives

A new e-mail in a shared inbox, an uploaded PDF, a form or a ticket starts its own run.

Read
IF

Rules first

Cases that fixed rules can decide — a known sender, a fixed form, an exact keyword — skip the model entirely: cheaper, faster, predictable.

Read
Model call

Classify the item

A language model sorts the rest by type, urgency and owner and returns a confidence score with its answer.

Read
Model call

Extract the fields

Pulls names, amounts, dates and references into a strict JSON schema; OCR runs first on scans.

Read
Code

Validate in code

Totals must add up, IDs must exist, dates must be plausible — the model’s output is never trusted unchecked.

Check
IF

Confidence high?

Low confidence, missing fields or a failed check stop the run and go to a person with the draft filled in.

Check
HTTP

Fetch context

Reads the customer, order or case from the CRM or ERP and searches your documents (RAG over Drive, SharePoint or Notion).

Act
Model call

Draft the output

Writes the reply, summary or record update from your templates and only the facts it was given, with sources listed.

Act
IF

Money, legal or customer-facing?

Refunds, quotes, contracts and first replies to a customer go to an approver in Slack or Teams.

Act
HTTP

Write to your systems

Updates the CRM, ERP or ticket through the API and sends approved messages — no screen clicks.

Act
Code

Log every step

Stores input, prompt, model, output, cost and who approved what, for audit and debugging.

Learn
Loop

Collect corrections

Edits made by people are gathered weekly into examples and rules, so the same mistake is not repeated.

Learn
Code

Weekly quality report

Accuracy, escalation rate, model spend and hours saved per process, sent to the owner.

Learn

What is AI automation for business?

AI automation puts language-model steps inside the workflows a business already runs: classifying e-mails and tickets, extracting fields from documents, drafting replies and summaries, and — within strict limits — choosing the next step. It is not a chat window next to your work and not a model that runs the company. It is ordinary automation that can finally handle the unstructured part: free text, scans and messages that rules and RPA bots never read reliably.

We build AI business automation on n8n and Python, and we are deliberate about where the model goes. Rules and code handle everything exact — lookups, calculations, routing by known fields — and a model is called only where reading or writing is needed. Every model output is checked by code, low-confidence results and anything involving money, legal effect or a first customer contact go to a person in Slack or Teams, and every run is logged with its cost. Where data is sensitive, the models run locally with Ollama or vLLM on your own hardware.

What changes with AI workflow automation

The hours spent reading, sorting and retyping disappear, while decisions stay with people. Instead of a pilot that impresses in a demo and never ships, you get one measured process in production, a weekly report on accuracy, escalations and spend, and a clear view of where intelligent automation pays off next — and where plain code remains the better tool.

Before / after

AI process automation:
before and after.

Typical minutes per incoming e-mail or document for a small operations team. Your own numbers go into the calculator below.

document
Auto 2 min Open and read the e-mail or document
Auto 2 min Decide what it is and who handles it
12 sec 4 min Type the data into the CRM or ERP
18 sec 4 min Look up context in files and past cases
1.5 min 6 min Write the reply or summary
30 sec 2 min Check, file and log the result
One document · by hand → with the flow 20 min 2.5 min −88% per document
Your numbers

What AI automation
saves at your volume.

Based on 20 min by hand and 2.5 min with the flow per item, from the table above.

Every month0 hof hands-on work back
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You stay in control

Intelligent automation,
with you in control.

The models read, sort and draft; code checks; the workflow acts within its limits. People keep every decision with consequences.

The flow does13 steps · every run
New item arrives
flow
Rules first
flow
Classify the item
flow
Extract the fields
flow
Validate in code
flow
Confidence high?
flow
Fetch context
flow
Draft the output
flow
Money, legal or customer-facing?
flow
Write to your systems
flow
Log every step
flow
Collect corrections
flow
Weekly quality report
flow
You decide6 steps · always a person
Anything with money or legal effect

Refunds, quotes, contracts and commitments are always approved by a person.

you
Low-confidence results

When the model is unsure or a check fails, the case goes to a person with the draft ready.

you
First contact with customers

New templates and first replies are reviewed until the accuracy is proven.

you
The rules and limits

Which tools the AI may use, what it may write and where it stops — set and changed by you.

you
Choice of model and data location

Cloud model, local model or none at all is decided per process, with you.

you
Review of the logs

Someone on your side reviews errors, costs and escalations every week.

you

Flip a switch to hand a step to the flow or take it back.

Connects to

AI automation
for the tools you already use.

Results

What working AI automation looks like
and what we build toward.

Benchmarks from McKinsey’s 2025 State of AI survey and Gartner: the companies that get value from AI redesign the workflow around it, measure it and keep people on the decisions that matter.

0%
of organisations use AI in at least one business function (McKinsey 2025)
0%
are scaling AI agents somewhere in the business — the rest experiment or wait
0%
of US firms with 250+ employees use AI, against 19.8% of all businesses (US Census Bureau, 2026)
How we work

How an AI automation project
runs, week by week.

Week 1Audit

We map the process as it runs today, count the minutes and agree what the flow must never do on its own.

Weeks 2–3Prototype

A working flow on your real data, in a sandbox. You see every run and every exception.

Weeks 3–6Launch

Edge cases, approvals and alerts, then the switch-over — with the old way kept as a fallback.

AfterSupport

Monitoring, fixes when a vendor changes a format, and a monthly report of hours saved.

FAQ

AI automation questions
we hear every time.

Which tasks should use AI, and which should stay plain code?

Use a language model where a person used to read, interpret or write: free-text e-mails, varied documents, summaries, drafts. Use plain code and rules for anything exact — calculations, lookups, fixed forms, routing by known fields. Most good AI workflows are mostly code with a few model steps.

How is this different from RPA or classic workflow automation?

Classic automation handles fixed fields and breaks on free text, scans and exceptions. AI process automation adds model steps exactly there, and connects systems through their APIs rather than clicking through screens.

How do you stop the AI from making things up?

The model works inside a strict schema, every result is checked by code, replies may only use facts pulled from your systems, and low-confidence cases go to a person. Money, legal and customer-facing actions always need approval, and every run is logged.

Can the AI run locally instead of in the cloud?

Yes. For sensitive data we run open-weight models with Ollama or vLLM on your own server or GPU machine, so documents never leave your network. Cloud models are used under business terms that exclude training on your data, where you allow it.

What does an AI workflow cost to run?

Hosting plus model usage. Many steps skip the model entirely because rules decide them, and every run logs its cost, so the weekly report shows spend per process next to the hours saved.

What are AI agents, and do we need them?

An agent chooses the next step from a set of tools you allowed. They are useful for multi-step requests; for most processes a fixed workflow with a few model steps is cheaper, more predictable and easier to audit — we start there.

How do we start without another pilot that goes nowhere?

One process, metrics agreed before building — accuracy, escalation rate, hours saved — and production within weeks, with a weekly quality report. If it cannot be measured, we do not start it.

Also automated

More flows
next door.

Available for new projects

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by hand?

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