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Process plumbing & automation

Your businessleaksthrough theseams betweentools.

Devonel is a process re-engineering studio. We map the work, find where it's spilling, and weld it back together — automations that hold pressure under real volume.

$214k
Intake recovered
9d→14h
KYC backlog
2.3d→4h
Returns triage
FIG. 01 · Intake leakage

Customer ops leaks through the seams between tools.

BEFORE — UNCAUGHT LEAKAGELead intakeCRMEmail repliesLEAK 14%Master trackerSlack DM ad-hocAFTER — DEVONEL ROUTINGLead intakeVALVE 01ROUTER · n8nCRMOwnerAudit log$214k recovered
FIG. 02 · KYC re-verification

Nine days of backlog collapsed to fourteen hours.

BEFORE — 9-DAY BACKLOGSubmission9-day queueMANUAL REVIEWbacklog growsApprove / rejectAFTER — DEVONEL ROUTINGSubmissionCLASSIFIERFast lane14 HRSlow lane2 DAYS$148k saved · 22 hr/wk freed
FIG. 03 · Returns triage

2.3 days of email tag became four hours of routing.

BEFORE — 2.3-DAY HANDLE TIMEEmailInbox24 HRHuman classify18 HRReply12 HRAFTER — DEVONEL TRIAGEEmailAUTO TRIAGERefundAUTOExchangeAUTOEdge caseHUMAN4 hr handle · $74k saved
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§ 01 · The practice

Re-engineering, then plumbing. Not the other way round.

Most "automation" agencies sell tools. We sell finished work. The diagram comes first. The build is downstream.

01 · Audit

We map the leaks before we touch a tool.

Two weeks shadowing your team. We come back with a routing diagram, a list of leaks, and an honest call on which ones are worth welding shut.

→ Wk 1–2 · 1 senior + 1 analyst
02 · Build

We weld it shut with the simplest pipe that holds.

n8n, Zapier, custom code where it matters. We don't fall in love with stacks. The job is flow under volume — not screenshots of "AI."

→ Wk 3–4 · 2 builders pair-shipping
03 · Pressure-test

Then we run it under real load with a hand on the valve.

Two weeks shadowed in production. Every hand-off watched, every edge case logged, every owner trained. We do not "deliver and run."

→ Wk 5–6 · pod on-call
04 · Tend
UPTIME

90 days of care, included. Then a clean handover.

Quiet alerting, monthly tuning, a runbook your team can edit. We keep the keys for ninety days. Then we hand them over and stay on retainer if you want.

→ Day 30–120 · async pod
§ 02 · The cycle

Six weeks. Four valves. One named pod.

Same shape every time. We keep it boring on purpose — boring scales. The variation is in the diagram, not the schedule.

Wk 01–02 · VALVE I

Walk the floor.

Sit with the people doing the work. Watch the spreadsheets. Time the hand-offs. Map the back-channels nobody admits to. By Friday of week two we have a routing diagram and a leak ledger.

Out: routing diagram · leak ledger · scope
Wk 03–04 · VALVE II

Build the pipes.

Two builders pair-ship. We default to n8n; we drop into TypeScript when n8n would be a hack; we'll happily delete an automation that didn't earn its keep. Every workflow is owned by a name, not a tool.

Out: workflows · runbooks · owners assigned
Wk 05–06 · VALVE III

Pressure-test.

Live in your real environment. Devonel takes the pager. Every escalation gets logged, every false alarm gets tuned out. By the end of week six the pod has shadowed every regular hand-off twice.

Out: production cut-over · alerting · trained owners
Day 30–120 · VALVE IV

Hand over.

90 days of quiet on-call, monthly tuning, a runbook your team owns. Then a clean handover — or a retainer if you want us to keep the keys. We never lock up the source. It's yours.

Out: source · runbook · monthly memo
§ 03 · The ledger

Twelve months. Receipts.

A real public ledger. Hours saved, dollars recovered, and what we actually shipped — with the leak it patched.

Engagementhours/wk → $/yr

04/26HVAC group · dispatch + invoice ledgerreplaced 3 sheets, 1 GPT, 1 part-time clerk38 hr$214k
02/26Series-B fintech · KYC re-verificationcut review backlog from 9 days → 14 hours22 hr$148k
12/25Logistics broker · carrier matchingstopped a 6% load-leakage in week 331 hr$182k
10/25PE-owned home services · PO reconciliationrecovered 11% from miscoded invoices in qtr 119 hr$96k
08/25Healthcare staffing · credentialing8-tab process → 1 dashboard, fewer human errors27 hr$132k
06/25DTC apparel · returns triage2.3-day handle time → 4 hours14 hr$74k
14 builds · 9 industries · 12 mo rolling≈ $1.18M / yr returned
§ 04 · The position

Four things we actually believe.

We will not pretend to be neutral. The point of a studio is having a position.

Most "AI strategy" is a plumber problem, not a model problem.

The bottleneck is almost never the model. It's the spreadsheet someone keeps in a private Google folder. The handoff that goes out as a Slack DM. The CRM field nobody made required. Until those are routed, no agent will save you.

We do the boring part first. We delete more code than we write. We refuse engagements where the job is to make a chatbot for a process that shouldn't exist.

The output of an audit is a diagram you can argue about. If we can't draw your business in one page, we have not understood it yet, and we will not start building.

Two intake slots,
Q3 '26.

Send us a paragraph about the work that hurts most this quarter — the one that's still being done in spreadsheets at 11pm. We'll come back inside two business days with either a 90-minute walkthrough on the calendar, or a referral to someone better suited.