Built for the job in front of you.
Invoices, inquiries and reports are where most owners start, not the whole menu. Every build is made for the business in front of us, so if a job repeats and lives in software, it’s a candidate.
Other things we build
Examples, not the limit
Each of these is built for one business, in the systems it already uses.
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Inventory counts and reorder alerts
Stock checked against your minimums every night, with a reorder list ready for whoever does the buying. Nothing is ordered without a person.
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Scheduling, dispatch and reminders
The day’s schedule sent to each crew with addresses and notes, and reminders to customers the day before.
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Timesheets and payroll prep
Hours collected from wherever they’re entered, checked for gaps and overtime, and ready for payroll. A person approves before anyone is paid.
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Quotes and contracts from templates
Quotes and contracts filled in from your templates and the customer’s details, ready for you to check and send.
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New-customer onboarding
Accounts set up in each system, welcome emails and forms sent, and nothing missed when a new customer signs.
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Syncing apps that don’t talk
Orders, contacts or invoices moved between the systems that should share them, instead of being typed in twice.
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Dashboards and small internal tools
A simple screen for the job that’s outgrown a spreadsheet: a job tracker, a request form, an approval queue.
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Month-end checklists
The close steps run in order, each one checked off and logged, and anything missing chased before it holds up the month.
How it starts
One call, one page, one build
No discovery retainer, no slide deck.
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A 20-minute call
You walk through the job that eats up your week. We tell you plainly whether it’s worth automating.
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A one-page plan
What it connects to, a fixed price and a delivery date. You decide from there.
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Build, test, hand over
We build it, run it alongside your team until it’s trusted, then hand it over with monitoring and a log of every run.
How we build
The same rules on every build
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People approve the money
No money is paid or sent without a person signing off, unless you decide otherwise.
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Your data stays in your systems
We build inside the accounts you already own. Where an AI model reads a document, we use business-grade services that don’t train on your data.
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The least access that does the job
Read-only wherever possible, a separate login for each automation, and access you can revoke at any time.
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Every run is logged
A plain-English record of what ran, what it touched and what it held back.
Who it’s for
A good fit if
- It repeats daily, weekly or monthly.
- It follows the same steps most of the time.
- It lives in email, spreadsheets or an app you log into.
- Someone on your team dreads doing it.
Works with
What you already run
- Gmail
- Outlook
- QuickBooks
- Xero
- Sage
- NetSuite
- Excel
- Google Sheets
- HubSpot
- Shopify
- Slack
- Stripe
Using something else? Ask. If you can log into it, there’s usually a way to connect it.
Questions
What owners ask
Can you build something that isn’t on this list?
Yes. These are examples, not the limit. Tell us what the job is and we’ll say honestly whether it’s worth building.
What if it isn’t worth automating?
Then we’ll tell you on the call, and why. Some jobs don’t repeat enough, or need a judgment call every time.
What does a build cost?
Every build has a fixed price, written on the one-page plan before any work starts. You know the number before you commit.
What else we automate
Other places to start
- Inquiries and quotesInquiries logged and answered within minutes, quotes chased on a schedule.
- ReportingWeekly and monthly reports built overnight and checked against the source.
- Routine processesThe routine one person carries in their head, written down and run on a schedule.
- Invoices and payablesInvoices collected, matched to purchase orders and posted overnight.
Book a call
Tell us what eats your week
A free 20-minute call. Describe the job, how often it happens and who does it today, and we’ll tell you plainly whether it’s worth building.
Prefer email? thirdshift.ca@gmail.com