AI Automation Agency · Veteran-Owned · Seattle
We own the busywork. You own the result.
A veteran-owned AI automation agency building custom workflows for small businesses that actually run — and actually keep running. One-time build fee. No subscriptions. No vendor lock-in.
Prepared
For owners
First call
30 min · Free
First build
Live in 30 days
23+
Hours / week given back
$42k
Annual labor recovered
30
Days to live, end-to-end
∞
You own it, forever
Chapter 01 · The hidden tax
Manual work isn't inconvenient. It's a compounding liability.
Every week, your team pays it.
Most owners have stopped counting.
20+
HRS / WEEK, PER TEAM
Burned copying data between CRMs, re-keying invoices, and rebuilding reports that should refresh themselves.
40%
OPERATIONAL COST REDUCTION
Businesses that implement intelligent process automation see ~40% lower op costs within 90 days.
3×
FASTER GROWTH
Automated businesses scale roughly three times faster — without proportional headcount increases.
Chapter 02 · What we build
One lead, zero touches.
A typical revenue pipeline,
after we're done with it.
Every step logged · each handoff is recorded and auditable, so you can trace any lead from first touch to paid invoice.
Humans where it counts · edge cases escalate with full context attached. Your team makes the judgment calls — and only those.
Yours to keep · the whole pipeline runs on open-source tools with your keys. We build it; you own it.
Our services
Seven practices. One operating system.
Custom-built for your operations —
not a template.
Side by side
One costs you every year. The other, you own.
Based on a part-time operations
coordinator vs. a typical build.
/ Option A — The traditional path
Hire an operations coordinator.
- Annual salary
- $35k – $50k
- Benefits + overhead
- +25 – 35%
- Onboarding
- 4 – 6 weeks
- Capacity
- 40 hrs / wk · 50 wks
- You pay
- Every year
/ Option B — The AutomateNexus build
Build it once. Own it forever.
- One-time build
- $7,500
- Monthly cost after
- $30 – $150 (AI direct)
- Live and productive
- Day 5
- Capacity
- 24 / 7 · 365
- You pay
- Once · own it
$7,500
/ UPFRONT
One-time build. The only big number on this page.
$30–$150/mo
/ ONGOING
Paid direct to the model provider. No retainer. No subscription.
$36,400
/ YEAR ONE RETURN
Recovered labor, post break-even — which arrives in week ten.
How we run a project
Five phases. Thirty days to live.
Discover → Design → Build →
Launch → Optimize.
01
Discover
Find the time you're losing. Interviews, workflow mapping, highest-ROI opportunities ranked.
Deliverables
- Ops audit
- Process maps
- ROI projections
02
Design
Blueprint the automated future. Tool selection, workflow architecture, integration plan — approved before a line of code.
Deliverables
- Architecture
- Tool picks
- Timeline
03
Build
End-to-end construction. Relentless testing — every edge case, every scenario — until it's bulletproof.
Deliverables
- Live automations
- Integrations
- QA docs
04
Launch
Deploy with confidence. Team training, SOPs, and real adoption — no abandoned tools on day 31.
Deliverables
- Deployment
- Training
- User guides
05
Optimize
Get better every month. Proactive monitoring, new opportunities surfaced, a dashboard on the metrics that matter.
Deliverables
- Monitoring
- Monthly reports
- Ongoing support
What clients say
Every quote links to its build.
“
The ticket automation solution has been a game-changer for our support team. We're handling more tickets in less time, and our customers are noticing the difference.
VP of Customer Success · B2B SaaS company, 4,000+ active accounts
“
If half your week is spent moving information between systems, that's not work — it's friction. We build the automations that remove it, so your team can do the work they were hired for.
Our operating principle · AutomateNexus
How we differ
Partner, not vendor.
Featured in Markets Insider, Yahoo
Finance, AP, MarketWatch.
/ AutomateNexus
- Custom-built AI agents and workflows, fit to your operations
- Full-service: strategy, build, ongoing optimization
- Data-driven insights that improve decisions
- Open-source stack — lower cost, no vendor lock-in
- Solutions that scale as you do
- Veteran-owned, mission-driven, accountable to results
- Embedded with your team — a partner, not arm's length
/ Other agencies
- Cookie-cutter automations that don't fit your process
- Siloed services — build and leave
- Surface-level analytics with no next step
- Proprietary platforms with rising subscription costs
- Rigid solutions that break as you change
- No skin in the game, no outcome ownership
- Arms-length delivery that ends at handoff
Leadership
Led by engineers.
No account managers between
you and the people building.
/ 01
Erin Moore
Founder & CEO
U.S. Army veteran. Executive MBA, MS Data Science, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Builds the systems and owns the outcomes.
/ 02
Abhinav Karumudi
Automation Engineer
Workflow architecture, integrations, and the edge cases everyone else misses.
/ 03
Shreya Maggo
AI Engineer
Agent design, model orchestration, and evaluation that keeps AI honest.
Backed by an in-house bench of automation, AI, cloud, and data engineers across every practice we ship. Want in? We hire builders. See open roles →
Questions
Asked, answered.
Anything else — book a free thirty-minute call. No pitch deck; if there's no fit, we'll say so.
How much does AI automation cost?
A typical build is a one-time $7,500. After launch, your only recurring cost is the AI model provider — usually $30–$150 per month, paid directly to them. No retainer, no subscription, no per-seat fees. Most clients break even around week ten.
How long until it's live?
Thirty days, end to end, through five phases: Discover, Design, Build, Launch, Optimize. Simple builds ship in as little as five days.
Do we actually own the automation?
Yes — everything. The workflows, the infrastructure, the credentials, the documentation. We build on open-source tools (n8n, NocoDB) with your own API keys, so nothing is held hostage to a vendor or to us.
What if our processes are a mess?
That's the normal starting point. Phase one is an operations audit: we interview your team, map the real workflow (not the one in the binder), and rank automation opportunities by payback. You get the roadmap whether or not we build it.
Will this replace our team?
It replaces the part of their week they hate. The average client gives each employee back 23+ hours a week of copy-paste, re-keying, and report-building — time that goes back into the work they were actually hired for.
What happens if something breaks?
Every build ships with monitoring, alerting, and documentation. The Optimize phase includes proactive checks, and support plans are available — but because you own the system, you're never locked into us to keep it running.
Where we go from here
Start with a call.
Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. We map your operations, find the friction, and show you where automation actually earns its keep. If there's no fit, we'll say so.
No subscription.
No lock-in.
No surprise invoices.