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Connect and automate the systems that run your business.

Business automation that connects your CRM, ERP, accounting, ticketing, and ops systems — so your team stops being the integration layer.

Practice
Business automation
Approach
Integration-first
Stack
n8n · Zapier · custom
Bias
Boring, reliable
§ 01 — What’s included

Capabilities, stated.

What you get when this service is part of a Yab engagement. Scoped per project.

01
System-of-record connections

CRM ↔ ERP ↔ accounting ↔ ticketing kept in sync with two-way syncs that handle conflicts, retries, and exceptions gracefully.

02
Operational workflows

Lead → quote → order → invoice → payment → renewal, automated end-to-end. With humans in the loop where the stakes warrant it.

03
Finance & accounting automation

Invoicing, reconciliation, expense capture, revenue recognition — the recurring finance work your team does in spreadsheets, moved into your systems.

04
Onboarding & lifecycle automation

Customer, member, patient, or partner onboarding workflows that span CRM, billing, comms, and access — handled in one orchestrated flow.

05
Reporting & dashboards

Live operational dashboards drawn from the actual systems, not exported spreadsheets. Built in the BI tool you already pay for.

06
Workflow tooling

Pragmatic choice between n8n, Zapier, Make, and custom code. Built for your team's skill set, not ours.

07
Auditable runs

Every run logged with inputs, outputs, and decisions. Failures land in a dead-letter queue with context, not silently disappear.

§ 02 — Standards

The bar we hold ourselves to.

Operating numbers and posture you can quote back to us. These are commitments, not aspirations.

Run history
100% logged
Retries
Idempotent
Time-to-fix
Hours, not days
Lock-in
None
§ 03 — Relevant work

Where we’ve done this.

Real engagements where this service was load-bearing. Click through for full case studies.

§ 04 — Approach

Four phases.
Fixed sequence.

The shape of a typical engagement. Phases overlap on larger projects, but the sequence is the same.

01
Map the work

We sit with the teams doing the manual work and map the workflow. Most engagements surface 3–7 candidate automations and a clear order to do them in.

1–2 weeks
02
Quick wins

We ship the highest-ROI automation first — usually in 2–3 weeks. Quick wins fund the rest of the program.

2–3 weeks
03
Build out

Remaining workflows built in priority order, each one shipped and validated before the next starts. Observability and audit trail wired in from the first run.

Ongoing
04
Hand off

Documentation, training, and a runbook for your team. We stay on call for changes — but you own the system.

On completion
§ 05 — Industries

Where this work
fits best.

Sectors where we’ve done this service often enough to know the patterns — and the patterns that don’t work.

§ 06 — FAQ

Questions,
asked in advance.

The things people ask before they reach out. If yours isn’t here, send it over — we’ll add it.

Business automation is the work of taking the manual, recurring tasks your team does between systems — copy-pasting from CRM to ERP, exporting reports, reconciling spreadsheets — and turning them into workflows the systems run themselves. It overlaps with integration but goes one step further: it doesn't just move data, it makes decisions and triggers actions.

Depends on the workflow and your team. Zapier and Make are excellent for SaaS-to-SaaS workflows that don't need complex logic. n8n is the better choice when you want self-hosted, version-controlled workflows. Custom code wins when the workflow is core to the business or carries compliance weight. We pick per workflow, not per project.

For most SMBs and mid-market: Zapier or Make for simple SaaS integrations, n8n for self-hosted and version-controlled, Camunda or Temporal for long-running and compliance-heavy workflows, and custom code for anything load-bearing. Plus the right CRM, ERP, and accounting platforms underneath — the automation is only as good as the systems it orchestrates.

RPA (robotic process automation) drives a UI as if it were a person — clicking buttons, filling forms — and tends to be brittle. We use API-first automation wherever the underlying system has an API (which is almost always now). We only fall back to RPA-style scraping when there's no other option.

A focused automation (one or two workflows) typically runs $8k–$25k. A multi-workflow program across CRM, ERP, and accounting is more like $40k–$120k phased over a few months. Quoted in writing per phase.

Yes — for the work the team is actually good at. The point of automation is to move people off the rote work and onto the work where their judgment matters. The teams we've worked with grow into more strategic roles, not out of a job.

§ 07 — Start

Stop being the integration layer.

One reply within a business day. No sales pipeline. We’ll either propose a path or point you somewhere better.