Computers have been in business for thirty years, and for most of that time they have been fast filing cabinets. People still did the work. The last thirty years were a stepping stone. Computers are only now showing what they are capable of, which is doing the work themselves.
A few weeks ago we told you Josh and Dave had moved to project work. This is that work, delivered through AI Developments.
Here is where automation is paying for itself right now.
Repetitive manual tasks. Re-keying data between systems, chasing quotes, sending the same follow-ups. If a task follows the same steps every time, it can be handed over.
Systems that talk to each other. Most businesses run several programs that don't share information, so someone ends up typing the same details into each one. We link them together. Enter a job once and it shows up in your accounts, your calendar and your customer records on its own.
Email campaigns. Our latest email newsletter was drafted, built and sent to almost 1,500 people by AI working from our customer database, with a person approving each step. It took a few hours to configure the first time. From here on it takes minutes to draft and send, without a single button clicked on a website in the process.
Paperwork. Forms, invoices, job sheets and reports read, filled in and filed without anyone retyping them.
The numbers you already have. Your accounting, job and customer systems hold years of data, and most of it has never been looked at. We pull it together so you can see what is making money, what isn't, and where work stalls.
Custom dashboards. One screen built around how your business runs, showing the figures you check every day.
Not sure where to start?
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Xena, and early access
Xena is the AI assistant we built, and we have run it inside Northland Technology for the last six months. You ask it, by voice or by message, to send the email, raise the invoice, book the meeting or find the customer record. Tasks that used to take ten minutes or more now take a few seconds. It learns how your business works and grows with it.
Early access is open now at a discounted rate for businesses that want in first.
Does any of this sound like your business?
Send us a line about what is eating your time. I'll come back to you personally with whether we can help and what it would involve.