You're stuck doing it all...
You’ve built something real. You brought on a team. But somehow you’re still the one chasing invoices, updating spreadsheets, and sending the same follow-up email for the fifth time. Your team is doing the work you built this for. You’re doing everything else.
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Do Any of These Scenarios Sound Familiar?
You're a Business Owner! Not a Cat Herder!
You may have a team that you want to do more, but that requires you stopping for one minute to write down or explain what’s happening, and if you go below 55 mph, your business could explode!
Every time you try to carve out time or delegate, you get swallowed up with fixing mistakes, or waiting for a follow up. And eventually the idea of delegating just turns back into “Eh, it’s just quicker if I do it.”
You need to grow, but with what time?
As a business owner, you probably focus on what your products and services are worth, but when was the last time you asked what your time was worth?
You already work 50 plus hours a week, on top of your hobbies, social obligations, and getting a solid 3 hours of sleep (and I guess family
if you were bored with everything else).
This is not the kind of work you signed up for!
When you started out on your business you had dreams to do something important! You love what you do, but there are too many admin tasks that are vital to your business, but these tasks are not what you started your business for.
If you feel burnt out before you even got to the important, fun work, or wish some of these tasks could be run by the press of a button, then maybe you’ve come to the right place!
Stop wrangling cats
(I mean data)
Your data is everywhere. One spreadsheet for leads, another for invoices, a third someone made “just for this project.” And somewhere in your files right now there’s report_final.pdf, report_FINAL_REAL.pdf, and report_FINAL_USE_THIS_ONE.pdf.
Most software makes it worse by forcing you to restructure your entire business around its limitations. Imagine instead one place built around how your business actually works, where everything is tracked and exactly where you expect it to be.
Go below 55 mph and Your business explodes.
You’ve got momentum. But the systems you built when it was just you were never designed for a team, more clients, or more volume. Every time you grow, you need to rebuild. Every time you hire, you need to re-teach. Every time you add a client, something breaks.
The goal isn’t just to fix today’s problem. It’s to build something that keeps accelerating with you without blowing up the bus.
This is not the kind of work You Signed up for!
You didn’t launch this business to spend your nights buried in admin work, chasing down your own team for updates, or copy-pasting data between systems that should talk to each other. That grind doesn’t just steal your time.
It wears you down, chips away at the energy you need for the work that actually matters, and makes something you built with passion start to feel like a job you’re trapped in. You deserve to spend your time on the work that made you want to build this in the first place.
Imagine your business running like it's supposed to.
What if your manager knew a project was over budget before the invoice showed up? What if a client could pull their own report instead of sending you a “just checking in” email at 4pm on a Friday? What if your invoice went from “approved in Airtable” to “sent to QuickBooks” without you touching a second window?
We’ve built these workflows before and will build them again.
You’re probably thinking “what kind of AI sorcery is this?”
It’s not. It’s no-code.
Alert. Approve. Send. On repeat.
How does this get built?
Step 01: Discovery
Hi, I'm Erik Harkness
You might remember me from such projects as
“Excel Spreadsheets – The Never-Ending Hell” and “Dr. Bing, and the Craziest Search History on the Internet.”
And today I’m telling you why you should buy—
~Just Kidding~
You don’t want someone to pitch you their entire service catalog.
You want someone who actually understands what you’re going through.
I’ve been helping small businesses automate since 2022 — especially solo founders and lean teams buried in admin work. I’ve lived that chaos too: late nights, chasing invoices, endless emails.
So I built a smarter way to run things with tools like Airtable, Make, and yes, AI when it’s appropriate.
Now I help others do the same — by identifying the pain points, streamlining workflows, and giving you back your time.
Let’s make your systems work for you —
not the other way around.
Hi, I'm Erik Harkness
You might remember me from such projects as
“Excel Spreadsheets – The Never-Ending Hell” and “Dr. Bing, and the Craziest Search History on the Internet.”
And today I’m telling you why you should buy—
~Just Kidding~
You’re not here for a sales pitch.
You want someone who gets it.
Since 2022, I’ve helped small businesses automate the chaos.
I’ve lived the late nights, invoice chasing, and nonstop admin. That’s why I started using tools like SmartSuite, Make, and ChatGPT to simplify everything.
Now I help others do the same:
Find the pain points. Automate the busywork. Get your time back.
Let’s make your systems work for you —
not the other way around.
Ready to get Automated?
Hourly Consulting
Need some help getting started with No-Code? Set up a no code service and automations are firing properly? Looking for something else? Then book an hourly call with me to get your work set correctly!
Custom Development
Ready to get your whole system built, mapped, tested and ready for you to utilize? Let’s get your system mapped out and then start building! We develop custom based solutions for your custom needs.