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AI automation means putting a model inside a workflow your business already runs — scoring a lead, reading a document, drafting a reply — so a step that used to take a person twenty minutes takes nobody any minutes. It is integration work first and AI work second, and it fails when people get that order backwards.

Starting at
From R25,000
Typical timeline
2–6 weeks
Delivered by
Ross Cuyler
Working with
SA · UK · EU

What the work actually involves.

Most teams do not need a chatbot. They need the twelve manual handoffs between their forms, their CRM, and their spreadsheet to stop being manual.

  1. 01Find the step worth automating

    We map how work actually moves through your business, then pick the one or two steps where automation pays for itself fastest. Usually it is intake, triage, or anything that ends in someone copying data between two screens.

  2. 02Wire the systems together

    Your forms, CRM, database, billing, and inbox get connected with n8n or direct API integrations. This is the unglamorous part that determines whether the AI layer is useful or theatre.

  3. 03Put the model where it earns its place

    Classification, extraction, scoring, drafting, summarising. The model handles judgement-shaped work inside a workflow that has guardrails, a fallback, and a human checkpoint where the stakes justify one.

  4. 04Give someone a place to watch it

    An internal dashboard or a channel that shows what ran, what it decided, and what needs a human. Automation nobody can observe is automation nobody trusts.

What this looked like the last time.

Lynx.ai for Tiger Finance runs exactly this shape: Webflow captures the lead, n8n orchestrates, an AI valuation step scores the property, Supabase holds the record, and agents work it from a FlutterFlow dashboard.

AI automation: costs, timelines, and the awkward questions.

Pricing here is what real projects of this shape have cost. Your quote will be fixed in writing before anything starts.

What does AI automation actually cost for a small business?

A single well-scoped workflow — one intake, one decision step, one destination — typically lands between R25,000 and R60,000. Multi-system builds with several branching workflows and an internal dashboard usually run R60,000 to R150,000. Ongoing tuning after launch is normally a retainer rather than a project.

How long before an AI automation is live?

A focused workflow is usually running in production within two to three weeks. Anything touching more than three systems, or needing a custom interface for staff, runs closer to four to six weeks. The integration work takes longer than the AI work almost every time.

Do I need to replace the software I already use?

No, and you usually should not. The work sits on top of what you already run — HubSpot, Sheets, Xero, Slack, your existing site. Ripping out working systems to make room for an automation project is how these builds go over budget.

Which AI models and tools do you build with?

Claude and OpenAI models for language work, n8n for orchestration, Supabase or Firebase for data, and direct API integrations where a platform-neutral connection matters. Tool choice follows the problem; nothing here is locked to one vendor.

What if the AI gets something wrong?

Every workflow ships with a confidence threshold, a fallback path, and a human review step wherever the cost of being wrong is real. You will also get a log of what the system decided and why, so a bad call is findable rather than mysterious.

Talk through an AI automation project.

Thirty minutes on a call is usually enough to work out whether this is a two-week job, a two-month job, or something you should not build at all. You get a written scope and a fixed price before anything starts.

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