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ALC Innovation / Free Automation Map

Find the busywork.
Then kill it.

Four quick steps about how your business actually runs. I write back a ranked list of the repetitive work worth automating—and what each fix would cost.

Get my free map See what you get
  • $0 cost
  • 2 business days
  • Keep the plan
01 / What you get

A plan, not a sales deck.

Ranked, so you can stop after line one if that's all the budget you have. Written plainly enough to hand to your team—or to another developer.

Automation Map / sample extract

What I'd automate first

Illustrative example—not client data. Your map is written around your business, your tools, and the answers you send me.

01

Quotes are priced in a notebook, then rebuilt in Word

P1 / First
What it costs you

Roughly 45 minutes per quote, and the pricing only exists in one person's head.

What I'd build

A quote calculator with your real pricing rules that emails a clean PDF. Works from a phone.

02

Finished jobs get retyped into the accounting software

P1 / First
What it costs you

The same numbers entered twice every week, with the occasional typo reaching a customer.

What I'd build

A direct link between the two systems so closing a job drafts the invoice for you to approve.

03

Weekly numbers are assembled by hand from four places

P2 / Next
What it costs you

Two hours of someone's Sunday, and the answer is already out of date by Tuesday.

What I'd build

A dashboard that pulls itself together, plus a short summary emailed every Monday morning.

04

The same ten customer questions get answered from scratch

P3 / Later
What it costs you

Real time, but spread thin—and the answers are mostly fine as they are today.

What I'd build

Worth waiting on. Fix the first two, then decide whether drafted replies are still worth it.

Note

Not every line says "build something." If a tool you already pay for can do the job, or a task is too small to be worth automating, the map says that instead. A short honest map is more useful to you than a long one.

02 / Fit

Useful when something feels dumb, even if you can't name the fix.

You don't need a spec or a budget. You need one task that annoys you. I'll work out whether technology is actually the answer.

  1. 01

    The same work happens every week by hand

    Copying, retyping, chasing, reconciling, rebuilding the same document. The work isn't hard, it's just constant.

  2. 02

    Your software doesn't talk to your other software

    You pay for good tools and then act as the bridge between them, moving data across by hand.

  3. 03

    The thing you need doesn't seem to exist

    You've searched for an app that does your specific job and come up empty, or found one that costs more than building it.

  4. 04

    Everything depends on one person remembering

    The process lives in somebody's head, which makes it fragile, hard to delegate, and impossible to grow.

A clear boundary

Not a pitch dressed up as a report.

The map exists because I'd rather start a conversation with something useful in your hands than ask you to sit through a sales call. If the honest answer is "don't spend money on this," that's what it says.

You keep it

The plan is yours. Build it yourself, hand it to your own developer, or ignore it. Nothing about it depends on hiring me.

03 / Process

Three steps, and no discovery-call theater.

  1. 01

    Answer four questions.

    What eats the time, what the worst task looks like start to finish, roughly how long it takes, and what software you use. About three minutes, and no call needed.

  2. 02

    I write the map.

    Within two business days. If something's unclear I'll email you one question rather than guess.

  3. 03

    You decide what happens next.

    Build nothing, build it yourself, or have me build the first item at a fixed price agreed up front. All three are fine endings.

What the map points to

Next action / free map

Tell me what to take off your plate.

Four quick steps, about three minutes. The map comes back within two business days and it's yours to keep.

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