AI & business automation systems

Automate what matters. Keep the judgement human.

We design and build the systems that read your enquiries, update your tools and notify the right person — then we monitor them every month so they keep working.

Response time
Seconds, at any hour
Every run
Logged, step by step
After launch
Monitored and maintained

lead-qualification.workflow

Running
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scorequalifiedTRIGGERNew enquiryForm · WhatsApp · DMAI STEPRead intentSummarise + score fitDATAEnrich recordCompany + sourceLOGICRoute by fitThreshold + owner rulesACTIONCreate CRM dealStage, owner, next stepNOTIFYNotify ownerWhatsApp / Slack

Run log

Replaces
Manual inbox triage
Human step kept
The actual sales call
Fails safely
Alerts us, not your client

Illustrative system — structure and step types match how we build. Client numbers are only shown in case studies where they were measured.

  • Written scope before any build
  • Least-privilege access
  • Monitoring and error alerts
  • Replies in one business day
  • NDA on request
Where the time goes

The bottleneck is rarely the team. It is the process.

We start with the operational problem and its cost — the technology is chosen afterwards, and only where it genuinely improves the process.

Slow first response

Enquiries sit until somebody opens the inbox — usually after the buyer has moved on.

Re-typed data

The same details entered into a form, a sheet and a CRM by hand, with the errors that follow.

Dropped follow-up

Handoffs and reminders depend on memory, so the quiet leads quietly disappear.

Disconnected tools

Each tool holds part of the truth and nothing reconciles them automatically.

No visibility

Nobody can say how long a process takes, or where it stalls, without asking around.

Scaling by headcount

More volume means more manual hours, because the process itself never changed.

Before / after

Same team. Far less manual work.

Before
  • Enquiries read whenever someone opens the inbox
  • The same questions asked differently every time
  • Details copied by hand between three tools
  • Follow-ups remembered, or not
After
  • Answered in seconds, at any hour
  • One consistent qualifying sequence, always
  • Records written once, everywhere they belong
  • Follow-up fires on schedule, and is logged
operations · overview

Active workflows

18

Runs this week

9,214

Success rate

99.4%

Operations dashboard: 18 active workflows, 9,214 runs this week, 99.4 percent success rate, with a weekly execution trend and recent run statuses.
whatsapp · assistant
IA

Business enquiry

assistant online

  • Hi — do you handle bulk orders for gloves?
  • Yes. Roughly what quantity and which market are you shipping to?
  • About 5,000 units, shipping to Germany.
  • Perfect. I've logged this and our team will send pricing within the hour.
qualified · routed to sales
Lead qualifiedWhatsApp assistant qualifying a bulk-order enquiry, capturing quantity and destination, then routing the qualified lead to the sales team.
How engagements run

No mystery. Five stages, documented.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    We map the process as it actually runs — every step, tool, handoff and exception.

  2. 02

    Assessment

    Opportunities are prioritised by value and feasibility, with the assumptions written down.

  3. 03

    Build

    Built against your real data, with logging, retries and error handling from day one.

  4. 04

    Handover

    Edge cases pushed through, then a walkthrough so your team owns and trusts the system.

  5. 05

    Optimisation

    We monitor, repair upstream breakages and extend the system as the business changes.

See the process in detail
How we work together

Three ways in, one written scope each.

Investment depends on scope and complexity, so we quote after discovery rather than publishing a price list.

Start here when the process is unclear

Automation Assessment

A paid diagnostic: current-state mapping, bottleneck map, prioritised opportunities and an implementation roadmap.

  • Process and data-flow map
  • Prioritised opportunity list
  • Value assessment, assumptions labelled
Most commonMost common first engagement

Automation Build

Fixed-scope implementation of one defined business problem, using the simplest reliable toolchain for the job.

  • Written scope and success criteria
  • Logging, retries, error handling
  • Handover and team walkthrough
For systems that must keep running

Operations Retainer

A monthly layer covering monitoring, maintenance, integration upkeep, tuning and small enhancements.

  • Monitoring and failure alerts
  • Fixes when upstream tools change
  • Ongoing optimisation roadmap
Selected work

Systems running in real businesses.

crm · pipeline

New

Sialkot Sports Co.

Auto-created · 2m

Nordic Retail GmbH

Auto-created · 14m

Qualified

Meridian Logistics

Score 84 · routed

Alpine Medical

Score 79 · routed

Proposal

Harbour Freight Ltd.

Quote sent · 1h

CRM pipeline board where enquiries are created automatically, scored, routed to qualified, and moved to proposal once a quote is sent.
What changes operationally

Leads land, get scored and reach the right owner without anyone re-typing a record or checking an inbox to find out what happened.

  • Routing rules applied the same way every time
  • Stage changes written back to your CRM
  • Owner notified the moment a deal qualifies
  • Every run reviewable, with a timestamped log
All case studies
A note from the founder

A minute with Ali.

Most businesses we meet don't need more tools — they need the tools they already pay for to actually talk to each other. That's the boring, unglamorous work most agencies skip. It's what we do best.

Every engagement is scoped in writing, built against your real data, and supported after launch. Direct communication, no handoffs, no dashboards nobody opens.

If your team is losing hours to repetitive work, tell us the process in plain English. We'll say honestly whether automation is worth it — and if it isn't, what to do instead.

A

Ali

Founder · Instinct Automation

The stack

Platform-agnostic engineering, tools chosen for the job.

n8nOrchestration
OpenAIGPT
GeminiGoogle AI
ClaudeAnthropic
WhatsAppCloud API
SupabasePostgres
HubSpotCRM
AirtableData
StripeBilling
SlackComms
NotionDocs
GmailInbox
Questions

Asked before every project.

Read the full FAQ
How long does a system take to build?

Most first systems are scoped, built and live within a few weeks. Scoping gives you the exact timeline before anything is built.

Is this custom, or a template you resell?

Every system is designed around your actual process. We reuse proven internal patterns for reliability — never a template you have to bend your operation around.

How do you handle our data and access?

Least-privilege access, credentials held in a secret layer rather than in code, and no data used beyond running your workflows.

How does investment work?

It depends on scope. After a short discovery we send a written plan covering what gets built, what it replaces, and what ongoing support looks like.

What happens after it goes live?

We monitor the workflows we build, repair breakages caused by upstream tool changes, and extend the system as your process evolves.

Next step

Tell us the process that wastes the most time.

Describe how it runs today. We come back with a written plan for exactly that process — what gets automated, what stays human, and what it takes to run it.