For UK SMEs: Business Consulting & Data Insights

Digital Systems & Automation Consulting Services

Digital Systems & Automation Consulting for Business Consulting & Data Insights

Reduce manual admin and disconnected tools with practical digital systems and automation consulting for growing businesses.

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Digital systems and automation consulting for businesses needing better workflows, connected tools, reduced manual admin and scalable operations.

Sound familiar?

Unclear priorities slow strategic progress

You might recognise:

Paralyzing Software Overwhelm

There are hundreds of software options available, leaving you with absolutely no objective way to evaluate them.

Isolated Data Silos

Critical operational data is trapped in disconnected tools that completely refuse to communicate.

Severe Automation Paralysis

You know you must automate your operations to survive, but you literally do not know where to start.

Costly Implementation Trauma

Past software deployment projects have routinely delivered nothing but intense frustration and lost cash.

Dangerous Vendor Dependency

You are forced to call extremely expensive IT consultants just to make the most basic system changes.

What you gain

Clearer direction and accountable action

Here’s what improves:

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Right-Fit Technology Selection
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Seamlessly Connected Workflows
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Thousands of Hours Recovered
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Total Operational Self-Sufficiency
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Highly Scalable Digital Foundation

What's included?

Practical business consulting support built around delivery

Your service includes:

System Selection

Requirements analysis with vendor evaluation

Price: 895+VAT / Ideal for: Buying new software

Integration Architecture

Design for connecting key systems

Price: From1150+VAT / Ideal for: Multi-system environments

Automation Build

Custom workflow using Zapier, Make

Price: From545/workflow+VAT / Ideal for: Efficiency-seeking teams

Training & Documentation

Team training with user guides

Price: From345/session+VAT / Ideal for: Self-managing teams

Enhance your results

Add more depth when the outcome demands it

Take it further with:

Implementation Support

Optional follow-on support to implement the Digital Systems & Automation Consulting recommendations, assets, systems, records or improvement actions.

Quoted separately

Review and Optimisation Session

Add a structured follow-up review to validate outcomes, refine delivery, and agree next actions after the initial engagement.

Quote on request

Process Mapping & Automation Audit

Two-week engagement: end-to-end process mapping for one functional area (operations, finance, sales-ops, or HR), automation opportunity register, and a written prioritisation matrix scoring effort vs annualised hours saved. Most clients use this as the entry point before signing a retainer.

£3,800

Is this for you?

Built for organisations ready to improve

This service suits you if:

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Organisations that need digital systems & automation consulting with clear deliverables and accountability.
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Teams that want measurable improvement, practical execution, and less operational friction.
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Decision-makers who need support aligned to current priorities, constraints, and timelines.
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Who This Is Not For

Not for shortcuts without commitment

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Teams looking for instant results without implementation follow-through or internal ownership.
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Buyers who need a low-touch commodity solution with no discovery, collaboration, or decision support.
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Client Stories

Practical support with visible outcomes

What clients experienced:

Onboarding for new clients used to take 6 hours of admin per client. Now it takes 22 minutes and the client gets a better experience. We onboarded 3x the clients last quarter without hiring.

O.D., Operations Director, professional-services firm, Cardiff

Order-to-fulfilment automation between Shopify, our 3PL, and accounting. Saved 14 hours per week and eliminated a category of error that was costing us £400-£800 per month in returns processing.

Y.B., MD, e-commerce business, Birmingham

Month-end close went from 9 working days to 4 because the journal-line aggregation we used to do in Excel now runs nightly. The recovered 5 days are now used for actual decision support.

I.K., CFO, B2B services firm, Leeds

PRICING

Systems diagnostic from £650 + VAT

For workflow automation, CRM/process mapping, digital systems and operational efficiency. Implementation is scoped after diagnostic.

What's included

Focused systems/automation diagnostic and implementation plan.

Scoped separately

Build, integrations, licences, subscriptions, training and ongoing support are scoped separately.

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How It Works

A structured route from need to outcome

Here’s the process:

Step 1

Assess the Current State

We review your current setup, constraints, and priorities so digital systems & automation consulting is scoped against the real operating context.

Step 2

Deliver the Agreed Scope

We execute the agreed work with clear milestones, practical communication, and visible progress against defined outcomes.

Step 3

Review Outcomes and Next Actions

We close with recommendations, implementation notes, and clear next steps to sustain the gains from the engagement.

Step 4

Step 1

Assess the Current State

We review your current setup, constraints, and priorities so digital systems & automation consulting is scoped against the real operating context.

Step 2

Deliver the Agreed Scope

We execute the agreed work with clear milestones, practical communication, and visible progress against defined outcomes.

Step 3

Review Outcomes and Next Actions

We close with recommendations, implementation notes, and clear next steps to sustain the gains from the engagement.

Step 4

Shielded delivery

Recurring-Hours-Saved Promise

Every automation we deliver comes with a documented baseline-hours-saved-per-month measurement. If the documented saving over 6 months is less than the cost of building it, we refund the build cost and remove the automation cleanly. We have invoked this clause twice in 60 builds.

Frequently asked questions

Where do most automation projects fail?

They fail when teams automate broken processes. We refuse to start with the automation tool. The first phase is process mapping — what is the work, who does it, and is the current shape of it the right shape. We have walked away from 40 percent of automation enquiries because the underlying process needed redesign first.

Are you platform-agnostic?

Yes, with strong opinions. Make.com, n8n, Zapier, FluentBoards, Pabbly, native API integrations, and custom Lambda / Cloudflare-Worker glue are all in our toolset. We will recommend the right one for the longevity / cost / control trade-off you actually have, not the one we're an affiliate of.

How do we measure return on these projects?

Every automation has a baseline-hours measurement before kick-off and a recurring-hours-saved measurement after go-live. Most SME automations we deliver pay back inside 4-7 months. We refuse to do automations where the recurring time saving is under 3 hours per month — they are not worth the maintenance debt.

What about ongoing maintenance and breakage?

Every automation includes a 90-day stability window during which we own incidents on our cost. Beyond that, automation maintenance is on a 4-hour / month retainer per 10 active flows, or you bring it in-house and we hand over runbooks. Most of our SME clients pick the retainer.