Automation & Workflow
Stop doing the same manual admin every week. We connect your existing tools — CRM, accounting, email, scheduling, AI agents — into one automated system that runs in the background. From $890.
Book a Free Discovery CallThe average Australian small business owner spends 18-22 hours a week on manual admin — copying data between systems, sending follow-up emails, generating invoices, reconciling spreadsheets, chasing approvals. That's roughly half a full-time role lost to work the right system would do automatically.
Automation & Workflow is the service that fixes this. We connect your CRM, accounting tool, email, calendar, AI agents, and communication tools into one connected system. The result: manual admin runs in the background, your team focuses on actual work, and the business scales without scaling headcount.
Where AI Receptionist captures inbound communication and Smart Websites & Apps build the front-end your customers see, Automation & Workflow makes everything that happens BEHIND the scenes work properly.
What Automation Means in 2026
Automation has evolved. In 2020 it meant connecting Zapier between two SaaS tools. In 2026 it means three layers stacked together — and Ozis Digital delivers all three.
Moving data between systems automatically. New lead in your form goes to your CRM, fires a welcome email, books a calendar slot, alerts your phone. The classic automation backbone.
AI making decisions inside the workflow. Classify this incoming enquiry. Summarise this 30-minute call. Draft a tailored response. Score this lead's quality. Real intelligence inside automated processes — not just shuffling data around.
Coordinating multiple AI agents and humans across complex multi-step processes. The lead is captured, qualified by AI, routed to the right salesperson, follow-ups scheduled automatically, contracts drafted, invoices generated — all without anyone touching a spreadsheet.
Use Cases
Every project is custom-scoped, but most clients come to us with versions of these:
Lead-to-customer journey. Form fill → CRM record → AI lead qualifier → personalised follow-up sequence → calendar booking → SMS confirmation → handoff to sales.
Invoice automation. Recurring invoices generated, payment reminders sent, overdue follow-ups escalated, accounting reconciled — all without touching Xero or MYOB manually.
Customer support triage. Incoming emails or messages classified by AI for urgency and topic, routed to the right person, draft replies prepared for one-click approval.
Onboarding sequences. New client signs → contract sent → welcome email → intake form → kickoff meeting scheduled → internal team notified — all automatic.
Reporting automation. Daily or weekly business reports auto-generated from multiple data sources and delivered to the owner's inbox.
Document extraction. Parsing PDFs, invoices, receipts, contracts into structured database records — no more manual data entry.
Renewal & retention cycles. Contract expiry triggers AI-drafted renewal email, owner approves, DocuSign sent, calendar updated, CRM noted.
ROI Calculator
$31,200
in annual salary time saved
60 days
to full payback at $4,990
A team spending 12 hours a week on manual admin costs roughly $31,200 a year in loaded salary time. An Operations System build at $4,990 pays back in 60 days — and runs forever after.
Calculate Your Savings — Book a CallProcess
Every build follows a structured 5-phase method. Fixed price, fixed timeline.
Phase 1 — Process audit (Days 1-3)
We map every manual process you want automated. For each: trigger, steps, desired outcome, current owner, frequency, time spent. Signed scope before any build.
Phase 2 — Build plan (Days 4-5)
Each automation documented as a visual flowchart. Tools, data flows, AI decision points, human approval gates. Walked through with you via Loom video before code.
Phase 3 — Build sprint (Days 6-12)
We build in Make.com (primary), Claude API (AI reasoning), and Base44 (admin dashboards when needed). Loom progress updates every 2-3 days.
Phase 4 — End-to-end testing (Days 13-15)
Real client data, edge cases, failure scenarios. Error handling built in so failures are visible, not silent.
Phase 5 — Launch & training (Days 16-20)
Go-live with monitoring. 60-minute training for your team. Full runbook documentation. Move onto ongoing Care plan.
Most workflows are live within 2-3 weeks. Full operations systems take 4-6 weeks.
Pricing
Quick Automation
$890
Workflow Pack
$2,490
Operations System
$4,990
Enterprise Build
From $9,990
Ongoing Plans
Watchtower Care
$290/month
Continuous Improvement
$690/month
All prices include GST. Tool subscriptions (Make.com, Claude API, SMS costs) are billed directly to you at cost — we never mark them up. Custom development work may be eligible for the Australian R&D Tax Incentive — a 43.5% refundable offset for AU companies under $20M turnover.
Why Choose Us
Real error monitoring
Every workflow we build has error alerts. We know about failures before you do — most agencies don't bother.
Runbook documentation included
You get plain-English documentation of what each workflow does and how to maintain it. No black boxes.
No vendor lock-in
Workflows in Make.com are visual, exportable, and yours. Hand them to any developer at any time.
AI inside the workflows, not bolted on
Claude API handles the reasoning steps that make modern automation actually intelligent.
Tool subscriptions billed direct
We never mark up your Make.com or Claude API bills. Your costs are transparent.
Honest about what NOT to automate
Some processes need to stay human. We tell you which ones.
Automation pairs naturally with AI Receptionist (to automate what happens after calls are captured), Smart Websites & Apps (to automate what happens after form submissions), and AI Consultation (to identify which processes to automate first).
FAQ
It will, occasionally — every automation does, because the SaaS tools underneath update without warning. The difference is whether anyone notices. Every workflow we build has error monitoring and alerts. If something fails, we know immediately, often before you do. That's what the Watchtower Care plan covers.
That's actually a good sign — it means generic tools haven't worked for you. What we build is custom: we map your process first, then build automation around it. The uniqueness is the value, not the obstacle.
Zapier works fine for simple connections. Where DIY usually fails is on three things: error handling, AI reasoning steps, and proper scoping. We do all three. Most of our clients have tried something like Zapier first — that's how they know they need a real solution.
Three things. A full-time admin is $65,000+ loaded. The full Operations System build is $4,990 plus $690/month — roughly 8 months of admin cost for something that runs 24/7 forever. Second, automation doesn't forget steps, doesn't have bad days, doesn't quit. Third, an admin handling 10x more work breaks. Automation scales at marginal cost.
Most of our clients use automation to free staff from the boring 30% of their week, not to replace them. The receptionist still talks to customers — but doesn't manually copy data between systems. The bookkeeper still does the high-value reconciliation — but doesn't manually enter invoices.
Three layers. We use established platforms (Make.com, Claude) with SOC 2 / ISO 27001 compliance. We never store credentials in plain text. If you have specific data residency needs (medical, government), we use n8n self-hosted on Australian infrastructure.
Yes. Everything we build is documented in plain English. Workflows in Make.com are visual and exportable. We hand you full admin access and runbook documentation. No lock-in.
A free 30-minute discovery call is the fastest way to identify which processes in your business should be automated first. We'll map your top time-drains, estimate the hours we'd save you, and quote the right tier.
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