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AI Process Automation

The manager reconciling four booking sources by hand, again.

AI agents that take the day-to-day admin off a manager's desk

Calendars, inboxes, documents, expenses and filing are the tasks that quietly consume a day a week and appear on no job description. Automate them and the same team runs the business without running the admin too.

£68,500
a year across two venues, built in 11 days
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An n8n workflow Crownbot runs in production
The cost of doing nothing

The admin is not free. You are just not invoicing for it.

Phone, email, the platform and the counter. Nothing tells the others what it promised, so somebody checks all four every day, and still apologises occasionally for a slot that was sold twice.

£68,500
a year of cost removed, one client, an 11-day build

What we actually build for AI process automation

Specific jobs, not capabilities. If one of these is a fight you have had this month, it is the one to start with.

  1. Failed-Payment / Dunning Recovery

    Runs an automatic follow-up sequence and alerts the owner when a recurring payment fails, recovering involuntary churn before it becomes voluntary churn.

  2. Weekly Ops & Revenue Digest

    Sends a Friday-morning summary of pipeline value, no-shows and cash due in the next 30 days, forcing the weekly review most solopreneurs skip because it's tedious.

  3. Invoice/AP Automation

    Extracts data from incoming receipts and invoices into a draft accounting entry, held for approval before posting, saving bookkeeping hours.

  4. Freelancer Time-to-Invoice Reconciler

    Compiles tracked hours into a draft client invoice automatically, stopping underbilling from forgotten hours.

  5. Inventory/Reorder Watchdog

    Sends low-stock and slow-mover alerts for a small retail or e-commerce catalogue, preventing stockouts and overstock alike.

  6. Project Kickoff Auto-Provisioner

    Creates the project board, task list and client channel the moment a deal is marked won, saving the recurring setup work of starting a new client.

The proof, in this domain

Miners Arms

Two venues, one manager, and a booking system charging £500 a month that still let tables double-book.

£68,500

annual cost removed

Manager time on bookings
12 hrs a weekunder 1

"We cut our software bill by £500 a month and stopped paying for reception cover on top of that. It now takes every booking, answers our reviews and runs our social, and that is work we were either paying for or simply not doing."

Yin, Operations Manager, Miners Arms
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What changes

  • Meetings scheduled and reprioritised automatically, without the calendar tennis
  • Inboxes triaged, flagged and drafted, so nothing important sits unread
  • Letters, reports and templates drafted in minutes, ready for a signature rather than a rewrite
  • Expenses, travel and procurement processed against policy without a person chasing paperwork
  • Meeting notes, recurring reports and compliance filing produced automatically, ready to send rather than ready to build

Who it is for

Founders and small teams without a dedicated PA
Calendar, inbox and document admin run in the background, so a founder's week goes to the business rather than the admin.
Any business drowning in day-to-day admin
Expense processing, filing and recurring reporting take the day-a-week tasks off a manager's desk without anyone new joining the payroll.
Multi-site or multi-account businesses
The same calendar, filing and reporting standards run across every site or account, so oversight does not scale with headcount.
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What teams building this ask

The questions that come up for this domain and nowhere else.

What happens to sensitive documents and expense data?

It stays in the systems you already use for calendars, filing and finance. Automations read and write to your existing tools rather than accumulating a second copy of sensitive records somewhere else, and Crownbot holds no client data of its own once a build is handed over.

Does this replace our existing calendar or filing system?

No. Most builds sit on top of what a business already runs. Our Birmingham pub group build did retire a £500-a-month booking platform, but only because everything they used it for had been rebuilt; that was the outcome of the project, not a requirement to start it.

Who approves spend on things like travel or procurement?

You do, by rule rather than by exception. Travel and procurement requests are processed against the policy and approval limits you set, with anything outside them routed to a person rather than approved automatically.

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Your records stay in your own systems: your calendar, your CRM, your database. AI processes what passes through and retains nothing between requests, and everything runs on commercial API contracts where your data is never used to train public models.