For businesses of 10 to 200 people.
Where two or three people spend their week moving information between systems by hand.
Get your team's week back. In 2 weeks, or you don't pay.
The Bottleneck Sprint. I find the one job your team does by hand that eats the most hours, build the thing that does it instead, and prove it runs on your real data before you pay a penny. Capacity without hiring anyone.
What you get
One sprint, everything below, one fixed price. No day rate, no change requests, no scope creep.
- The process, running in productionBuilt against your real systems, not a demo. An agency quotes six weeks for a bespoke integration like this.£14,000
- The two-day audit and written mapEvery repetitive process in the team, with hours and cost against each, ranked by what is worth doing first. Yours to keep either way.£2,000
- Acceptance test and locked scopeOne sentence that defines done, agreed before you pay. It also locks the scope, so the price cannot drift and neither can the work.£1,000
- Integration with what you already runYour practice management software, your inbox, your spreadsheets, your document store. Nobody has to move to a new tool.£4,000
- Failure handling and alertingThe difference between automation you trust and automation you check. When it cannot handle something, it tells you instead of failing silently.£2,500
- Written handover and team walkthroughWhat it does, how to run it, how to change it. Your team owns it. No black box and no dependency on me.£1,500
- 30 days of defect coverIf it breaks within the month, I fix it. No meter, no new quote.£2,000
- Bonus: monitoring dashboardOne page showing what ran, what it saved you and what needed a human, so you can see the return rather than take my word for it.£1,200
- Bonus: your next process scoped freeMost teams find the next one immediately. I scope and quote it at no cost, whether or not you use me for it.£2,000
A contractor at a normal day rate bills five weeks for this, with no fixed price and no guarantee. A consultancy costs more and starts next quarter. But the number that matters isn't the price: it's what another year of 2,040 hours costs you.
What it costs your team
The real question with any internal project is how much of your people's time it eats. Every one you have bought before consumed months of somebody's Tuesdays. This one is built so it doesn't.
4 hours of one person's time, total. No steering group, no weekly status call, no project manager. I work from your systems and come back when it runs.
The test that decides it
Before any money changes hands we write down one sentence that defines done. Not a scope document. One sentence, in your words, that is either true or false at the end.
The process runs end to end, on your real data, for five working days, without anyone on your team touching it. If it doesn't, you get a full refund and you keep everything I built. The risk is mine, not yours.
This is the whole difference. Everyone else in this market sells days and slide decks, and you carry the risk that it doesn't work. Here the seller carries it.
What this looks like in practice
Here is what the arithmetic looks like. The numbers below are modelled rather than a past client, but the shape is the same in a bookkeeping practice, a recruitment firm, a broker or a builder's merchant: two or three people, one repeated task, and a total nobody has ever added up.
| Line | Hours | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Chasing clients for records | 920 | £27,600 |
| Sorting receipts into the ledger | 640 | £19,200 |
| VAT return preparation, quarterly | 480 | £19,200 |
| Manual cost, per year | 2,040 | £66,000 |
| Line | Value |
|---|---|
| Build, one fixed price | £7,500 |
| Staff hours returned per year | 1,800 |
| Records chased to ledger-ready | 9 days to same day |
| Pays for itself in | 6 weeks |
The acceptance test for a job like this: one full cycle processed end to end, output signed off by your team as equal to what they produce by hand, with no manual step in between.
How it runs
Week 0
Audit
Two days finding where the hours actually go. You get the map and a fixed quote whether or not you go further.
Weeks 1 to 2
Build
I build against your real systems. You see it working before the end of week one.
Week 3
Prove it
Five working days running untouched. It passes, or you are refunded and keep the work.
2 sprints at a time. I do the work myself, so when both are running the next start date is the following month.
Start smaller if you'd rather
- The two-day audit on its own£2,000
Every repetitive process mapped, costed and ranked, with a fixed quote for the first build. Credited in full against a sprint booked within 60 days, so it costs you nothing if you go ahead.
- One day a week, after the first build£4,000/mo
Most teams find the next three. One day a week, embedded, working down the list from the audit. Cancel with a month's notice.
What I ask on the first call
- 01What does someone on your team do every week that they hate?
- 02How many hours is that, across how many people?
- 03What does it cost you when it is done late, or done wrong?
- 04Does the information already live somewhere a computer can reach?
- 05If it ran itself from Monday, what would that person do instead?
If the answers don't add up to more than the build costs, I'll say so on the call and we stop there.
Fit
Works when
- You have ten to two hundred staff and real revenue.
- Someone can name the process in a single sentence.
- The data lives in software, not only on paper or in someone's head.
- One person can approve five figures without a committee.
Doesn't work when
- You want an AI strategy rather than one thing fixed.
- Nobody can point at a specific process.
- The goal is cutting headcount rather than freeing up hours.
- Nothing bad happens if this waits another year.
Why me and not a consultancy
Most people selling AI to businesses right now cannot deploy software. They run the workshop, write the strategy and hand you a document. The build goes to someone else, or nowhere.
I'm an engineer, based in Ebbsfleet. I build production systems where being wrong has consequences, including autonomous navigation software and the hardware-in-the-loop rigs used to test it. You are hiring the person who builds it, not the person who scopes it. That is also why I can put a refund behind the outcome: I'm carrying the delivery risk either way.