Running the business · 9 builds
Small business automation ideas
A small business loses an hour a day to the same questions, notes and records. These builds take those over, and each page says plainly when one is not worth it.
One is an n8n template you import into your own account, and one is a free Notion template. The rest are Excel workbooks, or builds I make to order in your own n8n.
The question your team answers most often is the one that pays back first, so it is a good place to begin.
Answer from what you already know
Questions, support emails and reviews answered from your own documents, with a person on anything unclear.
Built for youAnswering questions from a team's own documents, with citations
How do I let people ask questions against our own Google Drive documents and get an answer with a citation, not a guess?
Explore the working version↗
Built for youAnswering repeat support questions without talking over a colleague
How do I auto-answer repeat support questions on Gmail without a bot talking over a colleague who already replied?
Explore the working version↗
n8n templateDrafting Google review replies and asking for a review after every finished job
How do I reply to every Google review in my own voice and ask every customer for a review after the job, without doing it by hand every evening?
Get it on n8n↗
Keep records and notes moving
Meetings, actions, scraped data and the companies you trade with, kept current without the copy-paste.
Free templateTracking every meeting's actions back to the meeting that produced them
Is there a simple Notion setup for tracking what a meeting decided and who owes what, without it turning into another tool nobody opens?
Duplicate it in Notion↗
Built for youScraping any website into a spreadsheet without writing code
How do I keep a spreadsheet of scraped website data up to date without owning a scraper myself?
Explore the working version↗
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Download the kitKeeping a sole trader's Self Assessment figures in one spreadsheet
How do I keep a UK sole trader's income, expenses and mileage ready for the Self Assessment short form?
The workbook, instant download↗
Download the kitKeeping cleaning jobs, visits and unpaid work together
How do I track cleaning clients, booked visits and unpaid work in one spreadsheet?
The tracker, instant download↗
Download the kitKeeping tutor lessons, homework and parent recaps together
How do I record one-to-one tutor lessons and send a useful follow-up without rewriting my notes?
The kit, instant download↗
Download the kitChecking shop statements, payments and stock each month
Does what each shop reported, paid and still holds add up at month end?
The consignment month-end checker, instant download↗
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A job you still do by hand?
Tell me what eats your week. I will give you an honest answer on whether a file or an automation would fix it.
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