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Workflow Automation

Workflow Automation for Teams Tired of Manual Handoffs

Connect the systems, remove the repetitive steps, and automate the work that currently moves between inboxes, spreadsheets and applications.

The cost is rarely in any single step. It is in the handoffs between them — the waiting, the re-keying, and the chasing.

  • Fixed scope
  • Measurable ROI
  • Human-in-the-loop
  • Works with your existing stack

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Does any of this look familiar?

These are the symptoms we see before the numbers get measured.

  • Work moves forward only when someone remembers to forward an email
  • A spreadsheet is the connective tissue between two systems
  • Handoffs between teams add days to a process that takes minutes of actual work
  • Nobody can tell you where a given item currently sits
  • The same status update is typed into three different places

What this process costs you today

Before anyone talks about technology, it is worth knowing the number you are trying to beat.

A worked example

Modelled estimate

4 employees × 6 hours/week of repetitive processing = 1,248 hours/year.

At $42/hour loaded cost

$52,416

annual process cost

If automation removes

65%

of the manual effort

Recoverable capacity

$34,070

per year

Four people losing six hours a week each to handoffs and status chasing.

Now run it on your own volumes

Your current process

Assumptions

  • Fully loaded hourly cost of the staff running the workflow today
  • Rework estimated at 1.5x the original handling time per failed item
  • Automatable share of 60–80%, typical where the bottleneck is handoffs rather than judgement
  • Payback modelled against a typical single-process implementation investment

Your estimated opportunity

Modelled estimate
Current estimated annual cost
$135,4502.0 FTE of manual effort
Potential automatable effort
6080%
Indicative payback
2 months
Potential annual opportunity
$81,270$108,360
Validate these numbers in a 5-Day Sprint

Directional planning estimate based on your inputs — not a quote or a substitute for finance sign-off.

How we work

  1. 1

    Map

    Sit with the people doing the work and document the process as it actually runs — including the workarounds nobody wrote down.

  2. 2

    Measure

    Establish a baseline: volume, handling time, error and rework rate, and what the process costs you today.

  3. 3

    Build

    Redesign the workflow and build it against your real systems and data — not a mockup or a slide.

  4. 4

    Validate

    Test against edge cases, confirm exception handling and approval gates, and measure the result against the baseline.

  5. 5

    Deploy

    Move into production with monitoring, runbooks and training — or recommend against it if the numbers do not hold up.

Before and after

The handoff chain most teams recognise

Today

  1. Email arrives with an attachment
  2. An employee opens and reads it
  3. Key values typed into Excel
  4. Record created in the CRM
  5. Manager approves by reply
  6. Someone updates the ERP

Automated

  1. Email captured automatically
  2. Data extracted from the attachment
  3. Validated against your records
  4. CRM and ERP updated directly
  5. Approval requested only where policy requires it
  6. Anything ambiguous lands in an exception queue

What we automate

  • Multi-step approvals
  • Cross-system data synchronisation
  • Request intake and triage
  • Status tracking and notifications
  • Handoffs between teams
  • Scheduled report assembly

What you receive

  • End-to-end workflow map, including every handoff
  • Baseline: cycle time, touch count, error rate
  • Automated workflow across your systems
  • Exception queue with named owners
  • Monitoring and alerting
  • Measured before-and-after cycle time

What the numbers say

Every figure is labelled by where it comes from — measured customer results, industry benchmarks, modelled estimates, or commitments we make to you.

70%

Faster document-driven workflows

Industry benchmark

60–80%

Of handoff effort typically automatable

Industry benchmark

200+

Platforms connectable via Merge

Measured result

Fixed

Scope agreed before we start

Delivery commitment

Technology we build on

We are not tied to one platform. The right tool depends on the workflow, your existing stack, and what you can maintain.

Microsoft Power Automaten8nMakeZapierREST & GraphQL APIsWebhooksMicrosoft 365Salesforce

How we keep it safe

Human approval gates

You decide which decisions an automation may make alone and which require a person. Thresholds are configured to your policy.

Exception handling

Anything ambiguous, incomplete or out of policy routes to a named owner with the reason attached — it does not fail silently.

Audit trail

Every action is logged: what ran, on what input, what it decided, and who approved it. Built for audit and incident review.

Least-privilege access

Automations connect through credentialed, scoped integrations you grant and can revoke. Your systems stay the system of record.

Workflow Automation FAQs

Assess your workflow

One workflow mapped end to end, its handoffs costed, and a fixed proposal for automating it.