REAL SYSTEMS · MEASURED OUTCOMES

Proof should show the work before the win.

Every case study names the operational pain, the system we built, and the result. No anonymous percentage floating without context.

21published builds

AI extraction · data sync · lead operations · reporting · onboarding

THE BUILD INDEX

From manual bottleneck to working system.

02
CREATIVE SERVICES · PROJECT MANAGEMENTAUTOMATED

The Project Board That Chases Its Own Deadlines

The goal: Keep every client project moving, paid for and followed up, without the owner chasing it.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

A small design business ran client projects in Trello, but deadlines, payments, fulfillment and long-term follow-ups were easy to miss across different service types.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

Three redesigned Trello boards now track every stage and send reminders, so overdue work, unpaid invoices and stalled projects get flagged automatically.

3boards, one per service type
9stages in the main project pipeline
5 dayspayment reminder trigger
6 monthsfollow-up on lost opportunities
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03
LEGAL SERVICES · CASE MANAGEMENTAUTOMATED

The Law Practice That Never Misses a Deadline

The goal: Track every case, document and date in one place and get the right person reminded automatically.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

A legal practice handled cases, documents, deadlines, invoices and reports across separate records. Important dates and status changes depended on people remembering them.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

A custom Zoho CRM now holds every case, and workflows send reminders and notifications when dates, documents, reviews or invoices need action.

40+custom fields across the workflow
1system for cases, documents, invoices and reports
0deadlines tracked by memory
5events that trigger reminders (dates, documents, reviews, invoices, receipts)
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04
E-COMMERCE · FULFILLMENTAUTOMATED

The Online Store and the Shipping Tool That Stay in Step

The goal: Stop copying orders by hand from the online store into the shipping tool.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

Orders arrived correctly in BigCommerce, but someone still had to move each one into ShipStation. That caused delays and extra admin.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

n8n workflows now send each new order to ShipStation as soon as it is placed, and write shipped or cancelled status back to the store.

0orders moved by hand
2-waysync between store and shipping tool
near real timeorder transfer
1set of workflows for new orders and status changes
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05
E-COMMERCE · DROPSHIPPINGAI-POWERED

The 35,000-Product Catalog That Publishes Itself

The goal: Turn a 35,000-product supplier feed into a clean, translated, publish-ready store without typing a single product.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

The supplier's data feed was missing key product details, so the rest sat in a huge CSV file. Entering 35,000 products by hand, translating every description, and keeping categories tidy was not realistic.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

A pipeline now processes the CSV, fills the gaps, translates and improves descriptions into Danish, and publishes each product to the store with its category, images, and price.

35,000+products processed and published without manual entry
Danishevery description translated and optimized for local shoppers
0duplicate categories created (the workflow checks parent and child categories first)
1automated pipeline, from CSV to live product page
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06
EDUCATION · INTERNAL OPERATIONSAUTOMATED

The Team Portal That Stopped the Seat Bill From Growing

The goal: Stop paying per-seat prices as the team grows, without moving the data or retraining the team.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

The team kept school, teacher, and student data in Airtable. Once the staff passed 25 people, the per-seat bill became a major cost, and there was still no single simple place to do the work.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

A custom portal built on Softr now sits on top of the same Airtable data. The team uses it for schools, meetings, and messages, and the client reports software costs down by nearly 70%.

~70%lower operational software cost
25+team members working in one portal
0rebuilds of the existing Airtable base or workflows
1place to manage schools, meetings, messages, and student information
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07
REAL ESTATE · LEAD GENERATIONAUTOMATED

The Lead List That Builds Itself Every Monday

The goal: Turn thousands of raw city violation records into a clean, campaign-ready lead list every week.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

Finding good leads meant combing through thousands of public violation records by hand, checking property details one at a time, and making sure no owner was contacted twice.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

Every Monday, a workflow pulls the newest violation data, keeps only the properties that match the client's rules, removes anyone already contacted, and launches the outreach campaign on its own.

100%of weekly research, filtering, and campaign setup automated
Every Mondaya fresh, campaign-ready list with nobody at a desk
35 to 65 daysviolation age window applied to every record automatically
0previously contacted owners sent into a new campaign
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08
E-COMMERCE / CATALOG OPSAUTOMATED

The Product Listing That Builds Itself

The goal: Turn a source catalog of collectibles into publish-ready store listings with no manual product entry.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

Every listing was built by hand from source data, with grading status decided manually and titles drifting out of format.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

A pipeline that extracts, classifies graded versus ungraded, normalizes titles and descriptions, and creates publish-ready Shopify products automatically.

0products entered by hand
100%of listings following one title and grading format
1pipeline from source data to publish-ready product
0hours added to scale the catalog
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09
INSURANCE / CASE MANAGEMENTAUTOMATED

The Appraisal Case That Moves Itself Forward

The goal: Run every appraisal case on one board instead of an inbox, a calendar, and a folder that disagree with each other.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

Case status, communication, scheduling, and documents lived in four different places, and nobody could say where an appraisal stood without asking someone.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

An eleven-stage case board with 40+ fields, stage-triggered emails that can be edited or suppressed, and scheduling that books straight from the case.

11stages, 1 board, full case visibility
40+structured fields captured on every case
100%of stage communications drafted automatically
0cases tracked in someone's inbox
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10
MEDIA PRODUCTION / REVIEW & APPROVALSAI-POWERED

The Video Pipeline That Collects Its Own Approvals

The goal: Take a video from brief to delivery with the client approving every stage inside one platform.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

Scripts, storyboards, and feedback were coordinated across email and scattered channels, with no single view of what stage a project was at.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

A pipeline that generates script, storyboard, and final video in sequence, gated by client approvals in Frame.io, with the Drive library mirrored across automatically.

3approval gates handled inside one platform
0email threads needed to advance a project
100%of the Drive folder structure mirrored into Frame.io
100%automatic transfer of new videos as they are added
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11
E-COMMERCE / INVENTORY OPSAUTOMATED

The Storefront and the Warehouse That Finally Agree

The goal: Keep the online store and the warehouse system in permanent agreement without anyone updating both.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

Products, stock, pricing, and orders had to be maintained in both Shopify and the warehouse system, and the two drifted apart constantly.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

Custom Node.js middleware running 24/7 that syncs products, inventory, pricing, and orders both ways, with queueing and retries so nothing is lost.

2-waysync with 0 manual re-entry
24/7operation on dedicated infrastructure
100%of orders passed to the warehouse automatically
0updates lost to rate limits or duplicate events
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12
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES / ONBOARDING & PAYOUTSAUTOMATED

The Back Office That Runs Without a Back Office

The goal: Get a notary applied, verified, signed, activated, and paid without an admin touching seven different tools.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

Onboarding and paying notaries meant chasing payments, bank checks, signatures, and ACH transfers across seven disconnected tools, then re-typing it all into accounting.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

One Airtable record per notary that every platform reports back into, turning onboarding and payouts into a sequence the admin approves rather than performs.

7platforms working as 1 system
100%of onboarding steps triggered automatically
0payouts sent by hand
0transactions re-typed into accounting
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13
LOGISTICS / INVENTORY COSTINGAUTOMATED

The Inventory Cost That Corrects Itself

The goal: Stop one new shipment from overwriting the true cost of everything already sitting on the shelf.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

Every new shipment at a different price overwrote the cost of all existing stock, quietly corrupting margins across 14,000 SKUs.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

A costing layer that blends new and existing stock on every receipt, writes the corrected figure back, and logs an auditable ledger row.

~14,000SKUs held at a true rolling cost
100%of cost recalculation automated
0cost corrections done by hand after a shipment
1auditable ledger row for every receipt
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14
FINANCIAL SERVICES · SAASAI-POWERED

The AI-Powered Financial Document Reader

The goal: Stop the manual data entry of bank statements and invoices.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

The client relied on slow, manual data entry and outdated, restrictive scanners to process sensitive accounting and compliance documents. This bottleneck slowed daily operations and made it incredibly hard to scale.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

We built a custom AI system that acts like a digital data-entry clerk. It instantly reads uploaded bank statements, pulls the exact transaction data needed, and securely organizes it into their database, without a single human touch.

100%elimination of manual data entry
~15 hrssaved weekly (≈40 docs/day × 4 min)
0hours wasted copying & pasting
1fully automated, secure AI pipeline
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15
E-COMMERCE · RETAILAI-POWERED

The AI Catalog & Content Engine

The goal: Automate the cleanup and translation of massive supplier product catalogs.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

The store owner was losing sales to high cart abandonment. Supplier catalogs were messy and in raw foreign languages, so the team spent countless hours manually rewriting titles, fixing pricing errors, and translating descriptions just to look trustworthy to buyers.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

We built a one-click AI system. It fetches the raw supplier data, then instantly cleans the text, translates it perfectly into the local language, formats descriptions beautifully, and pushes everything live to the store automatically.

100%automated translation & formatting
~22 hrssaved weekly (≈500 products × 2.5 min)
0hours writing product descriptions
0duplicate entries or catalog errors
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16
REAL ESTATE · LEAD SALESAUTOMATED

The Lead Sales Engine That Runs Itself

The goal: Stop manually sourcing, pitching, and selling property leads one at a time.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

Every lead meant looking up the homeowner by hand, texting contractors one at a time, sending a payment link, then emailing the details over. Leads occasionally got sold twice, which meant a refund and an angry contractor.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

New leads are found, enriched with contact details, and pitched to contractors automatically. A locked "preview" proves the lead is worth buying without giving it away. The second someone pays, it's marked sold and delivered, so it can never go out twice.

100%of lead pitching & delivery automated
~15 hrssaved weekly (≈30 leads/wk × 30 min manual cycle)
0leads sold twice since launch
24/7pipeline runs with nobody at a desk
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17
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES · FINANCE & HRAUTOMATED

The Zero Double-Entry Financial Pipeline

The goal: Stop retyping every customer and invoice into two separate systems.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

Every customer and invoice was built once in the operations app, then rebuilt by hand in the accounting system. Quotes sent to customers hit a login wall, so plenty never got read at all.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

Customers and invoices now sync both ways automatically, with a safeguard that stops the two systems endlessly "correcting" each other. Quotes go out as branded PDFs straight to the inbox, no login required, with a one-click Accept button that updates both systems at once.

0records typed twice
~10 hrssaved weekly on manual invoice & contact entry
1click for customers to accept a quote
100%of internal data stayed private
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18
EDUCATION · RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENTAUTOMATED

The CRM That Fills Itself In

The goal: Get the founder's relationships out of his personal inbox and into a system the team can actually use.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

Years of conversations with schools and educators sat in one person's email and calendar. Logging them by hand meant wading through internal chatter, newsletters, and bot invites just to find the real ones.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

Emails and meetings now log themselves automatically, with the noise filtered out before it ever reaches the database. Even conversations with people missing from the contact list still get matched to the right organization, so nothing important is lost to a forgotten record.

100%of relevant emails & meetings auto-logged
~6 hrssaved weekly on manual CRM updates
0spam or internal noise reaching the database
2ways every contact gets matched, so none slip through
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19
COACHING · CLIENT ONBOARDINGAUTOMATED

The Onboarding Pipeline That Runs on Autopilot

The goal: Get new coaching clients booked, prepped, and logged without a single manual step.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

Booking one client meant a run of emails to find a time, a meeting link built by hand, manual reminders, and clients regularly showing up before finishing their intake forms.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

Clients now book themselves. A quiet minimum-notice rule creates the exact window they need to finish intake forms before the session, meeting links and reminders go out automatically, and the CRM updates itself the moment a booking is made, all inside tools the business already owned.

0emails needed to book a session
~5 hrssaved weekly on scheduling & reminders
100%of clients arrive with intake forms done
$0extra software, built on tools already paid for
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20
AUTOMOTIVE · FIELD INSPECTIONSAUTOMATED

The Inspection Report That Writes Itself

The goal: Turn a field inspection form into a finished, premium report with zero manual formatting.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

Every inspection produced a form response with 38+ photos and written notes. Someone then spent an afternoon building it into a polished, multi-page document by hand, matching a premium layout the client insisted on.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

The finished report now builds itself the moment the form is submitted. Photos arrange into a clean grid, notes and images are handled as separate streams so nothing overlaps, and the document grows to however many pages the job needs.

100%of report formatting automated
~4 hrssaved per inspection report
0overlapping text or clipped pages
38+photos laid out automatically, every time
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21
WAREHOUSING · FULFILLMENT OPSAUTOMATED

The Self-Cleaning Warehouse System

The goal: Clear thousands of empty warehouse slots and stop a document backlog from growing every day.

BEFORE · THE PAIN

Empty warehouse locations had to be removed one at a time. Separately, every shipping slip generated left a leftover file behind in cloud storage, thousands of them, and the browser froze every time anyone tried to bulk-delete them.

AFTER · THE OUTPUT

A single report now clears every empty location in one upload. The shipping slip workflow deletes its own leftover files the moment they're no longer needed, and the existing backlog was cleared automatically in batches, with no browser involved.

1upload clears every empty location
~3 hrssaved weekly on manual cleanup
0leftover files generated going forward
1,000sof backlogged files cleared without a browser crash
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HOW TO READ THESE

Outcome first. Architecture second. Hype nowhere.

  1. 01Context

    What the business and team were dealing with.

  2. 02Constraint

    Where manual effort, risk, or delay accumulated.

  3. 03System

    How the new workflow moves and where people stay involved.

  4. 04Result

    The measured change after the system went live.

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