Kuiper StudioAutomation
Automation replaces nobody. It takes out of the day the gestures none of you chose to make.
What we understand about the trade
Double entry is not a waste of time, it is a loss of reliability. A figure typed twice ends up diverging, and then it is the wrong one that becomes the reference.
A good flow is one that fires without anyone thinking about it. A flow you have to start by hand is one more form.
Most tools already know how to talk. What is missing is almost never the API, it is someone to decide what gets said to whom, and in what order.
A flow has to be able to fail loudly. A silent automation that stops on a Tuesday gets noticed on a Friday, and catching up costs more than the flow did.
Not everything deserves automating. A task done twice a year gets done by hand, and we say so.
Typical problems
- The same order is keyed into the till, then the stock spreadsheet, then the accounts.
- Enquiries from the site arrive by email and get retyped into the CRM by hand.
- Nobody can say how many hours a week go into retyping, so nobody can say what automating would save.
- One tool in the estate has no open API, and its vendor charges more for access than for the tool itself.
- An automation exists, left by a supplier who has since gone, and nobody knows what it does any more.
What we offer
- A survey of what gets retyped, before a single line is written: that is what says which flows are worth it.
- The flows themselves, from trigger to action, with their conditions.
- The connection between the till, the site, stock, accounting and email.
- Dealing with a vendor when a tool exposes no API, with the delay stated up front.
- An alert when a flow fails, and a monthly check that they are all still running.
- The simulator on the pricing page prices a flow before we even speak.
Arnaud spent three years at a data management and automated flow company, moving data between tools that were never meant to talk to each other.
At a till vendor, then at another one in Cambodia, we saw up close what a figure entered twice costs: never the typing, always the gap you find three months later.
What the founders built and ran before Kuiper Studio, elsewhere. These are not Kuiper Studio projects.
Expertise
What are we building together?
Tell us where it hurts. We answer with a price and a lead time.