Workflowsorcery
A ten-day engagement for small teams considering AI

We help small teams make AI part of how they work, without the overwhelm.

Ten working days. We sit with one workflow until it is clear, score every step, and hand your team a system you can run yourselves. No retainers. No lock-in. Fixed scope, fixed fee.

Chapter 01The situation

Your team knows AI should be doing more for you. You're not sure where to start.

Your team is small. Five, maybe fifteen people. The work is real and the days are full. You've read the posts, you've tried a few tools, and somewhere along the way it stopped feeling like progress.

The vendors want a retainer. The consultancies want a strategy phase. The freelancers want a Slack channel. Nobody wants to look at the actual work, the inbox triage, the proposal drafting, the weekly report nobody reads, and tell you, plainly, what to change.

Chapter 02How we help

We sit with one workflow.

We pick a single workflow that is draining your team. We map every step. We score each one against three states: implement, revisit, keep manual. Your team receives a document that says exactly what to automate, in what order, and why. Then we build the first one with you in the loop.

Chapter 03Who this is for

A short list of fit signals.

  • Your team is 3 to 25 people and you're the one making operational calls.
  • You have at least one workflow that everyone groans about on Mondays.
  • You'd rather own the system than rent a consultant.
  • You can give us four hours of access across two weeks.
  • You want a verdict, not a workshop.

And, just as honestly, not the right fit if:

  • You're looking for a strategy deck.
  • You want the agency to keep running it for you.
  • Your team is over 50 people. Talk to us about the larger engagement.
Chapter 04The sprint

Ten working days, fixed scope, fixed fee.

  1. Day 1
    Intake
    Two hours together. We pick the workflow, agree the scope, and get access to the systems we'll need.
  2. Day 2 to 4
    Mapping
    We sit with the work. We watch your team do it, read the documents, and map the steps as they actually happen, not as the org chart says.
  3. Day 5
    Scoring
    Every step gets a state: implement, revisit, keep manual. Every state gets a one-line reason a non-technical reader can defend.
  4. Day 6 to 8
    Building
    We build the highest-scoring automation with your team in the loop. You see the prompts, the connections, the failure modes.
  5. Day 9
    Handover
    Two-hour walkthrough. Recording. Written runbook. The credentials are yours. The system is yours.
  6. Day 10
    Settling
    A quiet day. We're on call for questions while your team runs the system through a real cycle.
Chapter 05Deliverables

Three artefacts. All of them yours.

Opportunity scoring, sample
4 of about 32 steps shown. Workflow: inbound sales pipeline.
EXCERPT
StepVerdictImpactEffortScore
Inbound lead triage from website formImplement8.42.19.1
First-touch reply drafting (template plus context)Implement7.92.48.6
Proposal drafting from discovery notesRevisit8.16.25.9
Final pricing decisionKeep manual9.09.51.2
Score = Impact × (10 minus Effort) / 10. Verdict 7.0 and above: Implement. Verdict 3.0 to 6.9: Revisit. Verdict below 3.0: Keep manual.
01 · Audit document
A 20 to 30 page document scoring every step of the audited workflow. Plain language. Reasoned verdicts. Yours to share internally.
02 · First automation
One working automation built on infrastructure your team owns. We use your accounts, your keys, your tools. Nothing routes through us.
03 · Runbook
A short written guide and a recorded walkthrough so the next person on your team can run, edit, and extend the system.
Chapter 06How we work

Four principles we do not bend on.

Plain language
If a verdict can't be defended to a non-technical colleague in one sentence, it's not a verdict.
Your infrastructure
We build on your accounts. Your team owns the keys, the data, the system. We are not in the loop after day ten.
Fixed scope, fixed fee
One workflow. Ten days. One price agreed up front. No phases, no change orders, no surprise invoices.
Boring before clever
We will pick the boring automation that runs every day over the clever one that runs once.
Chapter 07FAQ

Common questions, answered plainly.

Long enough to do the work properly. Short enough that both sides stay focused. We've run this engagement enough times to know that day eleven is where scope creep lives.
Chapter 08Next step

Ten days from now, one workflow can be off your plate.

Book a thirty-minute call. We'll tell you on the call whether the sprint is the right fit. No follow-up sequence.

Book an intro callOr write to info@workflowsorcery.de