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Shorts · Busywork

Take the boring bit off your people.

Thirty seconds on the copying hiding in your week, and handing it to AI.

What the short says

  1. Meet the job nobody here wants.
  2. Copying numbers from one screen into another, all afternoon.
  3. It is slow, it is dull, and it is where thirty-six becomes sixty-three.
  4. We find the copying hiding in your week.
  5. The AI takes the copying.
  6. Bob keeps the judgement: the odd one out, the customer who needs a call.
  7. We are Subversive. Taking the boring bit off your people.

The problem

What goes wrong

Copying numbers from one screen into another can fill an afternoon. It is slow and dull, and it is where thirty-six becomes sixty-three. The person doing it could be talking to a customer.

What we do

How we fix it

We sit with your team and find the copying hiding in the week. AI takes the copying. Your people keep the judgement: the odd one out, the customer who needs a call.

What you get

  • The copying, found

    Where it hides in the week, written down.

  • The copying, handed over

    AI moves the numbers between screens.

  • The odd ones flagged

    Anything that looks wrong comes to a person.

  • The judgement kept

    Your people decide what the numbers mean.

How we start

Start with a day.

A workshop or a discovery day, and you keep the written notes whatever you decide next.

Then a first piece of work. Or keep us on: three months to begin, then month by month.

We quote for the job, once we know what it is.

A larger organisation? Start here.

On your own? Your first hour is free.

Talk to Dave

Where does your team copy and paste? Let’s find it.

Confidential. No sales theatre. The reply costs nothing and comes from Dave.

Write to Dave

A few quick questions, and we write the email for you. It opens in your own email, so nothing goes until you send it.

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