Before
A workflow that never fit Salesforce, a spreadsheet, or any vendor demo. Three people babysit it.
After
A web app built around how you actually operate. The screens, the rules, the handoffs you already have.
Custom web app
A web app for the workflow that never fit Salesforce or a spreadsheet
A workflow that never fit Salesforce, a spreadsheet, or any vendor demo. Three people babysit it. A web app built around how you actually operate. The screens, the rules, the handoffs you already have.
- Free evaluation
- Fixed quote before work begins
- First deliverables in 30 days, guaranteed
- No staff replaced
What this costs you today
The workflow is real and it works, but no product ever fit it. So it lives in a spreadsheet with too many tabs, or in a CRM bent out of shape, or in three people's heads. Those three people spend their time keeping it alive: fixing the sheet, chasing the handoff, explaining it to whoever is new.
Every workaround adds a step. Every new hire takes weeks to learn it. When one of the three is out, the workflow slows down.
Call a fully loaded employee $45,000 a year, as an illustration. When three people each spend part of their week babysitting a workflow, the cost adds up fast. The calculator below is set to three people at 10 hours a week each.
- Typical time
- 30 hrs / week
- That is
- 3 people, part time
- At an illustrative $45,000 a year
- $33,750 / year
Typical figures, using $45,000 as an illustrative fully loaded cost. Your numbers go in the calculator below. If your version is a couple of hours a week, that still counts.
What CBIT builds instead
We sit with the workflow as it actually happens and write down the screens, the rules and the handoffs your team already uses. Then we build a web app around them. Not a product you adapt to. Software shaped like your operation.
It has the fields you need and none you do not. It moves work from one person to the next the way you already do, and it keeps the history. The rules that were in someone's head are in the app, so a new person can do the work on day one.
This is ordinary software, not AI. Plain automation and plain apps handle most of what companies need. We use newer tools only where they clearly earn their place, and we tell you when we do.
What the three people get back is their week. The workflow runs in the app, and they run the business.
Is this AI?
This is a custom web app, not an automation. Ordinary software with the right screens, built around your workflow. It is not AI unless a specific part clearly needs it, and we tell you if it does.
Custom app vs. forcing Salesforce or a spreadsheet to fitOne example, names left out
Real work from real clients, with the names left out. What matters is the shape of the problem, and how often we see it.
What shapes the scope and the quote
This kind of project
Scoped and quoted separately
A web app is bigger work than a single automation: screens, rules, handoffs and the connections to the systems you keep. We scope it after the evaluation, often starting with the part of the workflow that hurts most, and the quote is fixed before we start.
- Small tasks and larger workflows are both welcome. We look at what needs to happen and give you a fixed quote before work begins. No hourly meter.
- First deliverables in 30 days from kickoff, guaranteed.
- Changes to outside systems (a portal redesign, a vendor's API change) may require separately quoted repair work. We tell you when that happens.
Run your own numbers.
Set to the typical figures for this task. Change them to match your team, however small the number.
What this task costs you in time
Hours a week, times the people doing it, at whatever a person costs you. $45,000 a year is an illustration; set it to your own figure.
People doing this work
3
Hours each, per week
Half an hour counts. 40 is a full week.
10
Fully loaded cost per person, per year
Salary, benefits, taxes, overhead. $45,000 is an illustration; set it to yours.
$45,000
Time spent on this task
30 hrs / week
About 1,560 hours a year of a person's time.
- Labor value of that time
- $33,750 / year
- Your project price
- Fixed quote after a free evaluation
Tell us about this task
These figures show the value of time spent on the task, not a project quote or guaranteed cash savings. We will help estimate what can realistically be automated.
Tell us about the task your team keeps doing by hand.
Every morning, every Friday, or every time an order comes in. Small tasks and larger workflows are both welcome. The evaluation is free, and if we take it on, first deliverables are running in your operation within 30 days of kickoff.
Free evaluation. Fixed quote before work begins.
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