Business Process Automation
Manual Work. Eliminated.
What We Do
Manual processes do not announce themselves as a problem. They look like normal work. Someone copies a number from one system into another. Someone sends an email to ask for approval and waits two days. Someone pulls a report from five different places and compiles it into a spreadsheet.
Each of those tasks seems necessary because someone has always done it that way. Business process automation exposes that assumption. The repetitive steps, the manual handoffs, and the approval chains that slow decisions: these are engineering problems, not people problems. We identify where automation creates leverage and build systems that run those processes reliably at any hour, at any volume, without a human in the loop.
How We Work
We begin with a process inventory workshop: documenting every recurring process your team performs, estimating the time spent, and evaluating each for automation suitability. High-volume, rule-based, time-consuming processes with defined inputs and outputs are the best candidates. We prioritize by the combination of time saved and implementation complexity, then build in phases that deliver measurable ROI early.
Each automation is built with a trigger, a defined process logic, error handling for edge cases, a logging layer for auditing, and monitoring that alerts when something fails. We test every automation against real data before production deployment and run a parallel period where manual and automated processes run simultaneously to validate output quality before the manual process is retired.
Why Running Start Digital
Pricing
From $5,000
Typical turnaround: 4-10 weeks
Includes
Frequently Asked Questions
Approval workflows, data entry and transfer, invoice processing, employee onboarding, report generation, contract routing, and notification systems. If it follows a repeatable pattern, it can be automated.
Built-in monitoring, error handling, retry logic, and alerting. When something goes wrong, the system notifies the right person immediately with full context for resolution.
Most businesses recoup their automation investment within 6 to 12 months. A single automated workflow that replaces 10 hours of weekly manual work saves over 500 hours per year.
Usually not. We build automation that connects your existing tools through APIs and webhooks. The automation layer sits on top of your current systems.
A single process automation takes 1 to 4 weeks depending on complexity. Comprehensive automation programs covering multiple departments and ten or more processes take 3 to 6 months built in phases.
Individual process automations start around $3,000 to $8,000 depending on integration complexity. Multi-process automation programs range from $15,000 to $50,000 and typically deliver payback within the first year.
We calculate expected time savings for each candidate process and compare against implementation cost. Processes that consume more than 5 hours per week and follow consistent rules are almost always worth automating.
Ready to get started?
Start with a $2,500 deposit. Balance due on delivery.