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Experiments in Automation

What we learned building systems that save 10+ hours weekly. Case studies, tool comparisons, tutorials, and hard-won insights.

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Shopify inventory sync oversell nightmare blog post featured image
# automation 2026-03-18

Your "Reliable" Shopify Inventory Sync Is a £40K Oversell Nightmare

That Shopify inventory sync you trust? It's quietly destroying your customer relationships and bleeding £40,000+ annually...

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Infallible inventory gut revenue black hole blog post featured image
# automation 2026-03-16

Your "Infallible" Inventory Gut Is a £40K+ Revenue Black Hole

Your reliance on manual tracking and gut instinct is likely hemorrhaging between £20,000 and £50,000 annually in lost sales...

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Email inbox automation SMB liability blog post featured image
# automation 2026-03-02

The Silent Killer: Why Your Team's Email Inbox Is Your Biggest Business Liability

Let's get straight to the point. Your email inbox is a digital graveyard costing you £30K+ annually...

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Automated invoices vendor relationship disaster blog post featured image
# automation 2026-03-09

Your "Automated" Invoices Are a £40K Vendor Relationship Wrecking Ball

Absolutely! Here's the compiled and polished blog post, incorporating your drafts and aiming for that "The Lab" vibe. --- Your "Automated" Invoices...

Lead qualification manual sales waste SMB blog post featured image
# automation 2026-03-06

Your "Smart" Lead Qualification Is a £25K Sales Time Black Hole

Here's a compiled and polished blog post, incorporating your drafts and meeting all the specified requirements. --- Your "Smart" Lead Qualification...

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Agile customer support backlog costs SMBs blog post featured image
# automation 2026-03-06

Your "Agile" Customer Support Is a £25K Ticket Backlog Disaster

Here's the compiled blog post, polished to meet your specific requirements: --- Your "Agile" Customer Support Is a £25K Ticket Backlog Disaster: Sto...

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# automation 2026-03-06

Your "Streamlined" Manual Onboarding Is a £30K Turnover Trap for New Hires

Your "Streamlined" Manual Onboarding Is a £30K Turnover Trap for New Hires Let's be brutally honest. In the exhilarating, often chaotic world of smal...

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Multi-user sheets team chaos costs SMBs blog post featured image
# automation 2026-03-04

Your "Trustworthy" Multi-User Sheets Are a Gold-Plated Lie Fueling Team Chaos

Your "Trustworthy" Multi-User Sheets Are a Gold-Plated Lie Fueling Team Chaos Let’s talk about spreadsheets. Those ubiquitous digital canvases we use...

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Customer onboarding emails churn costs blog post featured image
# automation 2026-03-04

Your "Quick" Customer Onboarding Emails Are Triggering £30K Churn Bombs

Here's the final blog post, compiled and polished according to your specifications: --- Your "Quick" Customer Onboarding Emails Are Triggering £30K...

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Google Sheets collaboration sabotaging agency blog post featured image
# opinion 2026-02-20

Google Sheets' So-Called 'Collaboration' Is Sabotaging Your Agency

Real-time collaboration was supposed to be Google Sheets' killer feature. For agencies with remote teams...

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Inventory sync failures stealing revenue blog post featured image
# case-study 2026-02-20

Inventory Sync Failures Are Quietly Stealing £8,000/Month From Your Business

Your real-time inventory sync is failing. Not dramatically—quietly. Learn how to fix the architecture problem...

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Spreadsheet not a database blog post featured image
# tutorial 2026-02-20

Your Spreadsheet Isn't a Database—Stop Using It Like One

Spreadsheet inventory feels efficient until you calculate the true cost: labor, errors, and opportunity cost...

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Manual inventory costs blog post featured image
# roi 2026-02-20

Your 'Efficient' Manual Inventory Actually Costs $120K a Year

Manual inventory tracking across spreadsheets causes discrepancies that delay shipments, anger customers...

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Why We Build On Google Sheets (Not Replace It)
# opinion 2026-02-20

Why We Build On Google Sheets (Not Replace It)

Finance managers in SMBs with 20 employees face severe slowdowns and crashes with Google Sheets...

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