The uncomfortable truth
We'll automate one job you hate. Built. Working. Free.
First come, first served. When August's three are gone, they're gone.
Nobody decided that, it just accumulated. Somewhere else, a graduate is keying a paper form into a system by hand, in 2026, because that's how it's always arrived.
I hear versions of this every week. Different town, different sector, same shrug. I've had nearly forty years of it. The PC was meant to end the drudgery. Then the internet. Good people are still spending their one short career typing things in.
Here's what's different now. Thanks to AI and automation it has never been quicker, cheaper or easier to take this work off a human. Months and a big invoice became days and small change. Most businesses still haven't noticed.
If the name of this site offends you, you're not who I'm after. I work with people who see the problem and want their staff doing work worth doing. Everyone else can keep doing what they're doing.
Every one of these is a real pattern I keep meeting. Pure hands, no thinking. Exactly the shape of work a machine should be doing.
Download, rename, file in the right folder. One at a time. All day.
It arrived on paper, so someone keys it in by hand. In 2026.
Four adults, one deadline, and the chasing takes longer than the task.
The spreadsheet and the CRM don't talk, so a person copies between them.
PO, invoice, statement. Three documents and a whole afternoon.
Detective work to find out who's ignored you about a purchase order.
Copy, paste, format, send. Every week, forever, to people who skim it.
"Does Tuesday work?" Seventeen replies to book one meeting.
The same customer details typed into three systems that never met.
Pure hands and no thinking. The stuff your best person hates. The form below asks for all three.
I'll tell you which is worth automating, which isn't, and why. In plain English.
Working. Running. Doing the dull job while you watch. Not a mockup, not a slide deck.
One condition. We write it up as a case study and we use it in our marketing. That's the whole price. No fee, no retainer, nothing to buy afterwards.
Running it for real has an ongoing cost. Software and compute aren't free. I'll show you the numbers first. Every time, it's been a rounding error against the hours it hands back.
The prototype costs you nothing. The price is the case study: we write up what we automated and what it handed back, and we use it in our marketing. If you then run it for real, the software and compute have a monthly cost, and you see those numbers before anything goes live.
Anything that's pure hands and no thinking. If a competent person could do it half asleep by following the same steps every time, it counts. If it needs judgement, taste or a relationship, that's your job, and it's exactly what the recovered time is for.
A working prototype doing the dull job while you watch. Not a mockup, not a deck, not a proposal. If it's not doing the actual work, it doesn't count.
That's August done. Three more slots open in September, and the date they open gets picked at random on the last day of August, so there's no queue to camp and no schedule to game. Follow the socials or check back here. We'll keep running this as a monthly promotion until we decide it doesn't work.
Your contact is me, Gary Cheers. The building is done by Wingenious, my AI and automation company, and where a job calls for a specialist we bring one in. I've spent nearly forty years watching good people do work a machine should do. This campaign is us doing something about it.
First come, first served. When August's three are gone, they're gone.
Bring me three ideas, that's the deal. One will do to start the conversation, but three gives me a winner to choose from. If August's slots have gone before you hit send, you still get my straight answer on all three, for nothing.