Pressure to “do something with AI”
Everyone says you should be using AI, but nobody can say where it would actually pay off in your business.
AI consulting without the hype.
Most AI advice starts with a tool. Ours starts with your week. We look at how your business really runs, sort every repeat task by the right fix, and give you a written plan you can act on, with us or without us.
Free, no obligation. The report is yours to keep.
The Simp Company
AI & automation audit
- Prepared for
- A manufacturing business
- Prepared by
- The Simp Company
Where to start
- Retyping purchase orders into the ERPAutomate
- Answering “where's my order?” emailsAI
- Month-end reconciliation across 3 sheetsFix first
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Where the hours actually go.
Advice that comes with a product
Vendors arrive with something to sell, so every problem starts to look like a fit for it.
No clear picture of what's possible
You know the team is buried in repeat work, but not which parts software could take on.
Worry about a costly mistake
A project that doesn't pay off costs more than money. It costs your team's trust in the next one.
What a recommendation looks like.
The task
Once it's handled
Copying orders into the ERP
Structured data, fixed rules. A simple connector handles it.
AutomatedAnswering “where's my order?” emails
AI drafts the reply from your order data; a person approves it.
AI, checked by a personMonth-end reconciliation
Three spreadsheets disagree. Decide which one is right before anything gets built.
Fix the process firstThe weekly report nobody opens
Automated, it goes unread right on schedule. Stop sending it.
Leave it
Not everything should be automated.
Every task we look at goes through the same three questions before anything gets built. If a task shouldn't exist, or the process around it is broken, we tell you that instead.
Three questions for every task
- 1Does it need doing at all?
- 2Does the process work today?
- 3Are the rules the same every time?
- Leave it
Stop doing it
The best fix is no work at all.
- Fix first
Fix the process first
Sort out how it's done before anything gets built.
- Automate
Automate it
Same steps every time, so software runs it end to end.
- AI
Use AI, with a person checking
AI drafts the work; a person approves it.
How it works, start to finish.
- 1
A free AI audit
A 30-minute call, then a written report in 1-2 days: the repeat work we found, the right fix for each task, and where to start.
- 2
We build it
On the tools you already pay for, in stages, so you see something working early. You get the price up front, before anything is built.
- 3
We keep it running
We fix anything that breaks and adjust it as your business changes, for as long as you want us to. Everything we build is yours.
Work we've already done.
Finance operations
AI, checked by a personFrom scattered numbers to tax-ready books, without the retyping.
- of staff time back a month, 960 hours a year
- 80 hoursof staff time back a month, 960 hours a year
- avoided: the planned roles were never needed
- 2 hiresavoided: the planned roles were never needed
- Before
- Every month, the team pulled figures by hand from bank feeds, invoices and spreadsheets, matched them up, then reworked everything into shape for tax.
- What we built
- An AI-assisted process that pulls the figures from every source, matches and reconciles them, and produces tax-ready records. The team only reviews the result.
- Now
- The monthly scramble is gone. The team reviews the output instead of assembling it.
How it works
Bank feedsInvoicesSpreadsheetsAI collects and reconcilesTax-ready records
Built on the tools you already use.
We connect what you have instead of asking you to switch. Common ones include:
- QuickBooks
- Xero
- Tally
- Zoho
- Salesforce
- HubSpot
- Microsoft 365
- Google Workspace
- Slack
- Shopify
Questions owners ask us.
Looks at how your business runs and tells you where AI and automation would genuinely help, what each change needs, and where to start. A good one also tells you where AI doesn't belong.
We start with your work, not a tool. Most of what we find turns out to need automation, a better process, or to stop, and we say so. AI is used only where it pays off.
A written report: the repeat work we found, the right fix for each task, what each fix needs, and where to start, ranked by payoff. It's yours to keep.
No. Some teams ask us to build what we recommend; some build it themselves. The report is yours either way.
Not at all. You tell us how your business runs; we handle everything technical and explain it in everyday terms.
The first step, the AI audit, is free. If you'd like us to build what we recommend, you get the price up front, before anything is built.
Let's talk about your busywork.
Tell us what's eating your team's time. Pick a slot that suits you; you'll talk with us directly, not a salesperson.
- Free, with no obligation
- A quick 30-minute call, video or phone
- If it's useful, the call becomes your free AI audit, with a written report in 1-2 days
Free 30-minute call
Pick a time that suits you. You'll talk with us directly.
- 30 minutes
- Video or phone
- No obligation
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