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How it works

From manual to automatic in four steps

No migration. No rip-and-replace. No eighteen-month implementation. We build on top of the ERP your team already knows, and we start with one process rather than all of them.

The process, step by step

Each stage has a clear output, so you always know what happens next and what it depends on.

1. Discovery

We sit with the people doing the work and map how orders and information actually move through your business — including the workarounds nobody documented. Then we rank the tasks by hours burned and pick the first one together.

2. Build

We configure the automation and test it against your real historic data in a sandbox — not a demo dataset. You see the output before anything touches your live ERP, and we tune it until the results are right every time.

3. Go live

We switch on in stages. For the first period the automation runs alongside your existing process so your team can compare, build trust, and stop double-handling when they’re ready — not when we say so.

4. Optimise

Automations aren’t set-and-forget. We monitor performance, tune the edge cases that surface in the real world, and once the first process is clearly paying for itself, we look at the next one.

AI automation layer routing order data out of an ERP system into reports, inventory and invoicing
The AI layer

Why AI matters here, specifically

Traditional integrations need everything in a predictable format. Real businesses don’t work that way.

A rules-only integration breaks the moment a buyer renames a column, sends a PDF instead of a spreadsheet, or writes “same as last time, plus 12 of the navy” in an email. That’s why so many ERP integrations quietly get abandoned.

The AI layer reads intent, not just structure. It handles the messy formats a person would understand at a glance — and, critically, it knows when it isn’t sure and hands the job to a human instead of guessing.

Reliability & control

Automation you can actually trust

Handing over a process only works if you can see what it did and stop it when you need to.

Exceptions never guess

If the automation isn’t confident — an unknown SKU, a price that doesn’t match, a quantity that looks wrong — it stops and asks a person. Silent errors are the one thing worse than manual entry.

Every action is logged

You can see exactly what was processed, when, and what the automation decided. If something needs checking, the trail is there — no black box.

Credentials stay yours

We connect through your ERP’s supported integration methods, with access you grant and can revoke at any time. We only touch the data the automation needs.

FAQ

Implementation questions

Discovery needs a few hours from the people who run the process day to day — they know the edge cases nobody wrote down. After that the build is on us. Your team’s next real involvement is reviewing the test output and signing off before go-live.

Expected. Adjusting an existing automation is part of your plan, not a change request with a quote attached. Bigger changes get scoped like any new automation.

We connect using your ERP’s supported integration methods with credentials you create and control. You can scope the access, see what it’s used for, and revoke it at any time.

Failures alert us and you — they don’t sit silently in a queue. Because we roll out in stages alongside your existing process, there is always a manual fallback while confidence is being built.

We’d prefer it. Starting narrow means you see a result quickly and the automation is proven on real data before you commit more of your operation to it.

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