Automation for small businesses

Your repetitive admin,
running itself

I take one repetitive job in your business — enquiry emails, document processing, weekly reports — and make it happen automatically. Fixed price. Everything in writing. No meetings needed.

What does this look like in practice?

Enquiries answered automatically

A property enquiry lands in a lettings agent's inbox. The details are pulled out, a viewing slot is offered from the diary, and a personalised reply is drafted — before anyone has opened the email.

Documents become reports

Invoices, timesheets, job sheets or supplier emails arrive all month. The numbers are extracted, filed and turned into the weekly report your team currently builds by hand.

The weekly chore that runs itself

Chasing references, sending reminders, updating listings, repurposing content. If the task follows rules — even fiddly ones — it can almost certainly run without you.

How it works — no meetings, ever

The whole process runs in writing and short videos, so you can deal with it when your day allows. If you'd rather have a quick call at any point, that's fine too — it's just never required.

1

Tell me about the job

A five-minute written form. You describe the repetitive task and forward a few real examples of it. No discovery call, no meeting.

2

Get a video proposal

Within a week you get a short screen recording showing exactly what I'd build, what changes on day one, and the fixed price. Watch it whenever suits you.

3

It goes live

Built and tested with your real data, usually within two to three weeks. Handover is a recorded walkthrough plus a one-page guide — and monitoring starts on day one.

Case study

One email. Zero admin.

Rob runs a portfolio of mobile apps, including a media library that needs fresh content added every month. The old routine: receive files by email, download them, rename and organise everything, upload to the right places, update the app's listings, double-check nothing broke. An hour or two of careful, boring work — every single time.

Now he forwards one email. The system reads it, works out which app it's for, processes the attachments, files everything correctly and updates the app — automatically, usually within minutes.

It has been running unattended since May. It sends an alert if anything ever looks wrong, and Rob hasn't touched the process since.

That's the service: one repetitive job, made to run itself — and monitored so it stays that way.

Fixed prices, published openly

No "book a call to discuss pricing". This is what it costs.

Automation Audit

£300one-off

Not sure what's possible? I map your process from real examples and send a video walkthrough plus a written proposal of exactly what I'd automate.

  • Video walkthrough of your current process
  • Written proposal with a fixed build price
  • Delivered within five working days
  • Fee comes off the build if you go ahead
The main event

The Build

from £1,500fixed price

One clearly-defined workflow, automated end to end. The scope is agreed in writing before any money changes hands — no surprises, no day rates.

  • Fixed, written scope and price
  • Tested with your real data
  • Live in two to three weeks
  • Recorded handover walkthrough

The Retainer

from £200per month

Your automation, kept running. Hosting, monitoring and error alerts, fixes and small tweaks — plus a short monthly report showing what it did for you.

  • Hosting and monitoring included
  • Alerts if anything ever looks wrong
  • Small tweaks and fixes covered
  • Cancel with 30 days' notice

One honest caveat: I only automate tasks that follow rules. If a job genuinely needs human judgement on messy input, I'll tell you so in the proposal — for free — rather than build something that lets you down.

Got a job in mind?

Describe it in the form, forward a few real examples, and you'll get a video proposal within a week. Five minutes, no meeting, no obligation.

Start the 5-minute form

Prefer email? Write to blain@ellisappdev.co.uk and describe the task in your own words.