The pilot · One workflow · 5 days
See AI automation on your business — not a demo.
We map one workflow, calculate what it costs you, and automate it in five days at a fixed price. If it isn't working exactly as scoped by day five, you pay nothing. That's the whole pitch.
Assessment
$500 · 3–5 days
Build
Fixed price · 5 days
Guarantee
Works or it's free
Ownership
Yours, forever
Not a sales pitch disguised as an assessment.
Built on your actual workflow.
What's included
The $500 Process Assessment, itemized.
A focused assessment of one workflow you choose.
Visual process map
01A clear, step-by-step diagram of your chosen workflow — every handoff, decision point, and bottleneck made visible.
Cost-per-process analysis
02Hours per week × loaded rate × 52 = what this one workflow actually costs you per year. No guessing.
Automation recommendation
03Exactly how to automate this workflow, with expected ROI and timeline. Specific to your process, not generic.
Tool recommendations
04Which tools fit best — including open-source alternatives that eliminate monthly fees entirely.
30-minute walkthrough
05Live walkthrough of every finding. Ask questions, pressure-test the numbers, get clarity before committing a dollar more.
Credit toward the build
06The $500 assessment fee is applied as a credit toward any implementation started within 30 days.
Money where our mouth is
Working as scoped by day five, or you pay nothing.
150+ implementations.
We can afford to guarantee it.
Zero. We keep working until it's right, or we refund you completely. Most agencies sell you a discovery phase and disappear into a retainer — we put a number, a deadline, and a refund policy on the table before you commit.
01
Book a discovery call
Fill out the form below. We schedule a 20-minute call to understand your business and pick the right workflow to pilot.
02
We map and analyze
We document the workflow, calculate the real annual cost, and pin down the automation with the highest ROI.
03
You see the assessment
A 30-minute walkthrough: process map, cost analysis, recommendation, and tool options — built on your workflow, not a demo.
04
We build it in 5 days
Fixed price, scoped on the walkthrough. Your workflow goes live, documented and owned by you — working as scoped by day five, or you pay nothing.
Scope rules
Tight scope is the point.
- One workflow per pilot. Lead intake, invoicing, scheduling, reporting — you pick, we scope it together on the call.
- Scope is agreed in writing before we start. Minor adjustments during the build are included; post-delivery changes bill at our standard hourly rate.
- We build on n8n, Make.com, and custom API integrations — open source or tools you already own. Never on proprietary platforms that charge ongoing fees.
- You provide access credentials to the tools we're connecting (via a secure form) and one 20-minute scoping call. That's it.
- $500 is collected only after the discovery call confirms we're a fit. You won't be charged until scope is agreed.
Against the alternatives
$500 vs. the usual paths.
| The pilot | Typical agency | DIY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | $500 one-time | Retainer + scoping | $0 + your hours |
| Timeline | 3–5 days | 4–8 weeks | 2–6 months |
| Ownership | You own it | Their platform | You own it |
| Ongoing fees | None | Monthly platform | Zapier / Make fees |
| Guarantee | Money-back | None | High failure rate |
$500
/ 01 — PROCESS ASSESSMENT
Map, cost analysis, recommendation, walkthrough. Credited toward the build.
5 days
/ 02 — PILOT BUILD
One workflow automated at a fixed price, scoped on the walkthrough.
Scoped
/ 03 — FULL SUITE
Zero obligation. But once one workflow runs itself, most clients want more.
Apply
Apply for a pilot spot.
Tell us which workflow hurts the most — or say “not sure” and we'll recommend one on the discovery call. Nothing is charged until scope is agreed in writing.
Not ready to commit $500? Start with the free audit instead.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What exactly does $500 buy?
The Process Assessment: a visual map of one workflow, a cost-per-process analysis, a specific automation recommendation with ROI and timeline, tool recommendations, and a 30-minute live walkthrough. Delivered in 3–5 days, and credited toward any build started within 30 days.
What's the guarantee on the build?
If your automation isn't working exactly as scoped by day 5, you pay nothing. Zero. We keep working until it's right, or we refund you completely. We've done 150+ implementations — we're confident in our work.
What if I want changes after delivery?
Minor scope adjustments during the build are included. After delivery, additional changes are billed at our standard hourly rate — or rolled into a larger build if you're continuing.
What tools do you build on?
Primarily n8n, Make.com, and custom API integrations — all open source or tools you already own. We never build on proprietary platforms that charge you ongoing fees.
We're not technical. Is that a problem?
It is the normal starting point, and the pilot is designed for it. The $500 assessment maps your process by watching how the work actually happens — no technical vocabulary required from you. The build that follows ships with plain-language documentation and a recorded walkthrough, so the person who inherits it in six months can run it without us in the room.
What happens after the pilot?
Zero obligation to continue. Most clients move from the pilot to a custom build or full suite, scoped on a call — but the pilot stands alone, and everything we built is yours either way.
What tasks can a small business automate to save time?
The unglamorous ones that run every day: answering and qualifying enquiries, sending reminders, chasing invoices on a cadence, reading documents into a system, pushing status updates, drafting quotes from captured inputs. A five-minute task done thirty times a week beats a quarterly report every time, which is why the pilot targets frequency rather than ambition.
What are the first steps to introducing automation successfully?
Write down the one process you want automated, including the exceptions and who decides when one happens. Agree what success looks like as a number. Decide who owns the result afterwards. That preparation is most of a pilot's value — it is also why ours starts with a $500 assessment that maps the process before a single workflow is built.
How does a small business calculate ROI on a pilot?
Time the task honestly for a week, multiply by how often it runs and by the loaded hourly cost of whoever does it, and annualise. That is the cost of the manual version. A pilot that automates one such task at a fixed price gives you a real before-and-after inside a month, which is a far better basis for the larger decision than any vendor's projection.
Where we go from here
One workflow. Five days. Proof.
Stop evaluating automation in the abstract. Pick the workflow that hurts, put $500 and five days on it, and judge us by whether it runs.
No subscription.
No lock-in.
No surprise invoices.