Systems Integration & Automation

Unify your systems and automate the busywork

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Making Things Happen Has Never Been Easier...

... but doing things correctly, and efficiently, is another story.

Regardless of what your organization does, you probably get things done by plugging different systems into each-other. In some cases those integrations may be seamless and automatic, but often there are manual steps. Quirks. Lost data, and visibility.

Worst. Lost time.

Humans Fill the Gaps

All too often it is left up to humans to move and massage data. Copying exports from place to place. Plugging systems together, and hopefully, but too rarely, confirming things went properly.

Tools exist on the market to facilitate data transfer, but they're often opaque and expensive.

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It's the same old story.

Vendor Inc. sends an inventory count. Sally opens it in Excel and deletes a few columns, then adds a formula or two. Sally emails the new sheet to Mike. Mike then changes all the dates to another format and removes one of the columns Sally added, so he can upload it into the backend platform. Finally, hopefully, someone remembers to slack Kevin and he does.... something ... to make the update appear online.

You know, easy.

Oh, and about one time in ten something doesn't work, and everyone has to redo it all. No one is totally sure why.

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Half Solutions: Cracks and Leaks, Cracks and Leaks Everywhere

Systems integration that requires constant human attention, or that fails intermittently is sometimes worse than no integration at all. Semi-automation can be a good place to start, but half baked solutions make half baked cakes.

Incomplete & Inflexable

The tool works just well enough to look attractive in a demo. It does a version of what you need, and it may even do it well. But if you want to do anything out of the ordinary you're out of luck, or it becomes painful to accomplish anything.

Opaque

When things work it's excellent, but when they don't you're stuck scratching your head or wrestling with GPT, or a huge company's support chat bot trying to figure out why. That's if you even notice the failure. Many automation systems won't even proactively elevate failures. Assuming they even test for failures.

Not Designed for Real Use

Rapidly assembled integrations can work just well enough to pass basic testing, but the second they face real-world data vibrations and weird behaviors start appearing.

Expensive!

Either directly, using metered services that feel affordable in prototype, but eat you alive over time with fees. Or indirectly by costing you time and energy through lost sales, unhappy customers, burned time and lost opportunities.

No Solution At All

Most common for small organizations trying to bootstrap themselves to the next level.

Missing or incomplete processes can be papered over by blood, sweat an tears. Usually the sweat of people who could be doing so much more if they just had their time and attention pointed at achieving your goals, rather than manually pushing data around.

Rife with Human Error

People, even the most careful people, when given the same task to do over and over again will eventually make mistakes. When you're lucky, that represents work that has to be redone. Worse, it's mistakes that are never found, and haunt your organization forever. Maybe that campaign that felt like a game changer was, and the data was bad. What a nightmare.

Dehumanizing

The "current year" argument. It's straight up dehumanizing to make creative, vibrant people copy-paste data. In 2026 there's no rational reason to make people do work that could be automated in the long run.

Expensive! (Again)

People should be doing something more than tweaking spreadsheets and exporting CSVs. Even if that idea isn't compelling on its own, people are TOO EXPENSIVE to be tweaking spreadsheets and exporting CSVs. Repetitive, precise tasks just don't belong in the hands of a person who could be doing better things.

Slooooooooooooooooooow

Well built, trustworthy integrations can let you make changes and assess systems at the speed that they happen. Know what is going on with campaigns, or sales, or vendor feeds at the rate that they update. Any stopgap human solution is going to involve delays, not even considering sick days, staff churn and all the mistakes.
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How We Can Help

Whether you're dealing with a patchwork of half-solutions, handling all the work by hand, or have a solution in place that isn't quite working, we can help.

If you're happy with, or stuck with, your current solution but it's giving you issues we can work with what you have. Either to repair the issues you're having, or enhance it with the features you need.

If you're bailing water with sweat and grind we can help you identify solutions and get them into place as fast as possible.

What the Process Looks Like

Schedule a FREE Consultation

Get the ball rolling by scheduling a free consultation where we'll discuss the state of your infrastructure, see if we're the right team to help and even start brainstorming solutions.

We'll Prepare a Proposal

We'll take what we learned from our consultation and put together an action plan to get the information necessary to assemble a proposal and estimate.

Sometimes this may be interviews, sometimes it may be technical discovery work. The right way to understand and assemble a plan changes to fit your unique needs.

Discovery & Planning

We'll flesh out a plan for how to proceed with milestones, estimates and assemble the plan into a practical timeline.

From there we'll task the perfect resources from our team and dig in!

Execute, Execute, Execute!

We'll work with you and your team to get access to the sandbox accounts, or mock up data if we need to, so our team can safely and efficiently turn your problems into technical solutions.

This usually involves writing custom code, as well as leveraging 3rd party tools, to get assemble the most stable, efficient and inexpensive solution possible.

Frequent and Transparent Communications

Throughout the project we'll stay in touch all the way along giving you updates, and demos of functionality as it comes online (if you desire).

We'll send you regular progress reports, as well as establish a regular set of meetings to stay in touch and in sync with progress.

Final Approval and Deployment

When you're satisfied, and we're satisfied that you're satisfied: we go!

You'll get training on any relevant systems, and we'll get you in the air.

Support and Partnership

Depending on your needs and desires, we'll be available to maintain, enhance, monitor or even manage your shiny new integrations.

The amount of post-release support you'll receive is the amount you want. It's entirely common for organizations to update and maintain their new integrations without any additional assistance.

In some cases, it may make sense for us to continue to maintain your automations, and we can certainly help there too!

As Much or As Little

If you see your organization dealing with these problems now is the time to start solving them.

Systems integration can be incredibly daunting because often everything depends on everything else. What is possible and realistic can be difficult to pin down. It feels like there's always a reason why something won't work.

But there isn't a reason not to

We can start small. Tackling big problems in small bites reduces your risk, and lets you start to see dividends in time savings as soon as possible.

No problem is too big, or too small, for us to to simplify, automate and verify.

Regain your time, confidence and sanity starting today.

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