Process automation

The process depends on one person

Process automation

The process depends on one person

Process automation

The process depends on one person

The process runs because someone keeps it running

Manual steps, one person everything depends on, and data spread across tools that don't talk to each other — so every decision starts by rebuilding the picture.

Three things holding the process together

  • Steps that only exist in someone’s head. There’s a way things get done and it isn’t written anywhere. It works while the person doing it is there, and it turns into a training problem the day they aren’t. Nobody planned that dependency — it accumulated.

  • Tools that don’t talk to each other. Your CRM knows one version, the spreadsheet knows another, the ERP knows a third. None of them is exactly wrong, which is worse than if one were: it means every question has to be answered by hand before it can be answered at all.

  • Reporting that starts from scratch every time. Someone rebuilds the same picture every week, and by the time it’s ready the week has moved on. The cost isn’t the hours it takes. It’s that decisions get made on whichever version was easiest to assemble.

Organizations automating at scale reported an average payback period of nine months, against fifteen for those still running pilots.

Deloitte, Automation with intelligence

The manual steps gone, and the data finally in sync

  • Automated processes

  • Integrations with your ERP and custom APIs

  • Data that stays in sync

  • AI applied where it removes work rather than adding a layer

Which level fits gets decided on the call, once we've been through what you're working with.

Sized to your case

This one doesn't come in tiers. What gets built depends on what you're already running — so what it covers gets decided with you, on the call.

Include

  • Process mapping

  • Build

  • Integration

  • Handover with your team able to run it

Not include

  • Replacing your team

  • Automating a process nobody has decided to keep

Your scope gets written and signed before anything starts.

Every project runs against one document: what problem it solves, what it delivers, by when, what finished means, and who answers for it. It’s written for your project, which is why there’s no timeline on this page — yours gets decided when we scope it, once we understand the problem.

  • What problem it solves

  • What it delivers

  • By when

  • What finished means

  • Who answers for it

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Scope

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03

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Where it starts

Mapping

We go through the problem with the people who have it.

What fails, since when, what's already been tried, which systems are in play and who knows why they were built that way. That work produces the map the project runs against, and it's also what tells us which roles the pod needs.

What the mapping covers

  • The systems in play, and what each one is holding up

  • Where work is still done by hand, and by whom

  • What's been tried before, and where it stopped holding

  • Who at your company decides on each part

  • Which roles the pod needs, and what each one is there for

A smiling woman wearing glasses and a denim jacket working on a silver laptop while sitting on a comfortable black leather seat.

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Scope

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03

Where it starts

Mapping

We go through the problem with the people who have it.

What fails, since when, what's already been tried, which systems are in play and who knows why they were built that way. That work produces the map the project runs against, and it's also what tells us which roles the pod needs.

What the mapping covers

  • The systems in play, and what each one is holding up

  • Where work is still done by hand, and by whom

  • What's been tried before, and where it stopped holding

  • Who at your company decides on each part

  • Which roles the pod needs, and what each one is there for

A smiling woman wearing glasses and a denim jacket working on a silver laptop while sitting on a comfortable black leather seat.

What we need open, and who we need for an hour

  • Access to the tools the process actually touches, including the spreadsheet nobody mentions

  • An hour with the person who runs it today, watching them do it

  • A decision on which steps stay and which ones were never worth keeping

Pod

Who does the work, and what happens if someone leaves

A pod does the work — a unit with a defined composition, a fixed cadence, and one lead who runs the project from the first call through delivery and answers to your company for the result. It's the same unit in all six services, and the specialists a project needs come in under that lead. If someone leaves, the pod continues: the composition gets restored, and you don't rebuild a working relationship or re-explain where things stand.

Automating a step nobody decided to keep just makes it permanent.

The process depends on one person

Manual steps, one person everything depends on, and data spread across tools that don't talk to each other.

If that sounds like your company, the next step is a call.

Twenty minutes on the problem, and whether it's work we should take. If it isn't, we'll say so there.

© 2026 Codence. All rights reserved.

If that sounds like your company, the next step is a call.

Twenty minutes on the problem, and whether it's work we should take. If it isn't, we'll say so there.

© 2026 Codence. All rights reserved.

If that sounds like your company, the next step is a call.

Twenty minutes on the problem, and whether it's work we should take. If it isn't, we'll say so there.

© 2026 Codence. All rights reserved.