Records that create themselves
From the enquiry, the inbound email, the form, the call. Nobody has to remember to type them in.
Current without depending on discipline
Service
CRM automation for teams whose CRM has quietly stopped being true
We build the parts that keep a CRM current on its own: records created from real activity, work routed to the right person, and reporting that reflects what is actually happening.
In short
CRM automation means the records update from the work itself rather than from someone remembering to type them in. Contacts and deals get created from incoming enquiries and email, activity is logged automatically, follow-ups are triggered by what did or did not happen, and reporting reads from records that are current. The measure of success is simple: whether the team trusts what the CRM says without checking somewhere else first.
Works with the systems you already run
HubSpot
Airtable
Notion
Slack
Gmail
StripeThe problem
The CRM is only as good as the least diligent person using it
It gets bought with the best intentions. For a month everyone updates it. Then a busy week arrives, a few records go stale, and the reporting stops matching reality. Once people notice the numbers are wrong they stop trusting the numbers, and once they stop trusting the numbers they stop maintaining them. It only goes one way from there.
The fix is not training or nagging. It is removing the manual updating as a requirement, so the record reflects what happened whether or not anyone remembered to type it.
It breaks in four places, and the people doing it feel every one.
- 01Data entry as discipline
Keeping it current depends on people being conscientious under pressure
Any system that only works when everybody is diligent will fail in the first busy month. The updating has to happen as a by-product of the work, not as a separate task competing with it.
- 02The private spreadsheet
The real pipeline lives somewhere else
Once someone builds their own version because the official one is wrong, you have two sources of truth and no way to reconcile them. The forecast comes from the wrong one.
- 03Islands
The CRM does not know what finance or support knows
The account is overdue on an invoice, or has three open complaints, and the person about to call them has no idea. The information exists in the business. It just does not exist in the same place.
- 04Reporting archaeology
The monthly numbers take two days to assemble
Exports, spreadsheets, manual reconciliation, someone chasing three people for updates before the meeting. By the time the report is ready it is describing a situation that has moved on.
What changes
The same week, run differently
How it runs nowHow it runs after
Records are current only if everyone remembers to update them.
Records update from the enquiry, the email and the meeting themselves.
The real pipeline lives in someone's spreadsheet.
There is one version, and people trust it enough to stop keeping their own.
Sales calls an account that finance has flagged.
The flag is on the record before the call is made.
Reporting takes two days and describes last week.
Reporting reads from current records and takes no assembly.
What we build
What we build into the CRM
The right person, with the context
Routed by your own rules, with the background already attached to the record.
No hunting before the first call
What finance and support know
Overdue invoices and open complaints visible on the account before anyone picks up the phone.
One record holds the whole picture
Reporting off records that are true
Built last, on data that is actually current, so the monthly numbers stop needing two days of assembly.
No more month-end archaeology
Proof
We have built these both ways: automation layered onto a CRM a client already ran, and a custom system built on Airtable where the process was unusual enough that off-the-shelf would have fought them every week. The judgement about which of those a business needs is most of the value, and it is the part we would want to talk through before quoting anything.
How it works
From first call to running system
- 01
We work out where records actually come from
Enquiries, inbound email, forms, calls, referrals. Each one is a place a record could be created automatically instead of typed.
- 02
We choose the platform honestly
If HubSpot fits, use HubSpot. If the process is unusual enough that off-the-shelf will fight you, a custom build on something like Airtable is often cheaper and better. We will tell you which.
- 03
We connect the systems that hold the rest of the truth
Accounting, support, delivery. The account record should know what the business knows about that account.
- 04
We build the reporting last
Because a report is only worth building once the underlying records are reliable. Doing it in this order is what stops you automating a wrong number.
Confidence & control
What happens when the system is unsure
- We migrate carefully or not at all
- Moving CRM data is where these projects go wrong. Nothing is switched over until a full copy has been taken and the new records have been checked against the old ones.
- Automation does not overwrite judgement
- Where a person has made a deliberate change to a record, the system does not quietly reverse it. Conflicts surface for review rather than being resolved silently in the background.
- Your data stays exportable
- Whatever we build, you can get everything out in a usable format. A system you cannot leave is a system that can charge you anything later.
- You own it when we leave
- It is built inside your own accounts and your own cloud. If you never speak to us again it keeps running, and another team could pick it up. You are not renting your own process back from us.
Scope
What an engagement covers
Included
- A map of where records should be created automatically
- An honest platform recommendation, including when off-the-shelf is the wrong fit
- Automatic record creation, routing and activity logging
- Connections to the finance and support systems that hold the rest of the picture
- Reporting built on records that are actually current
- Written documentation and a handover call
Not included
- CRM licences. Those stay in your name and on your account, which is the point.
- Sales methodology or training. We build the system, you run the process.
- Cleaning historic data beyond an agreed scope. Twelve years of duplicates is its own project.
- Migrating more than one source system per engagement without agreeing it first.
Scope, timeline and price are agreed after a short call, never before. We write down what the system has to do, and what it costs, before any build starts.
Questions
Frequently asked
We already have HubSpot. Do we need to move?
Almost certainly not. Most of what makes a CRM feel broken is the missing connective work around it, not the platform. We would look at what is not being captured automatically before suggesting you change anything.
When is a custom CRM actually the right answer?
When your process is genuinely unusual and you find yourself fighting the software's assumptions every week, or when the per-seat cost across a large team stops making sense for what you use. For most firms the honest answer is to keep what they have.
Our CRM data is a mess. Where does that leave us?
It is the normal starting point. We agree a scope for cleaning: usually duplicates, dead records and the fields that actually get used. Cleaning everything back to the beginning is rarely worth it and we will say so.
Will the team have to change how they work?
As little as possible, and that is deliberate. The changes that survive are the ones that remove a step. Anything that adds one gets quietly abandoned within a month.
Can it connect to our accounting system?
Usually yes, and it is often the highest-value part of the job. Knowing that an account is overdue before you call them changes the conversation, and that information already exists in the business.
What does it cost?
Every engagement is priced to its own scope, so there is no list price. After a short discovery call we agree in writing what the system has to do and what it costs, before any build starts.
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