AI automation for business

From "we should do something with AI" to a system that runs on Monday morning.

Most AI projects die in a slide deck. We skip the deck. In two weeks you have one real process running on real data, and a number that tells you exactly what it saved.

14 daysfrom first call to the first process running live
€2,500fixed price for the build week, no hourly billing
1 owneryou talk to the person who builds it, not an account manager
The honest version

Your problem is not AI. It is repetition.

Nobody in your company wakes up wanting a language model. They want the quote to be ready before the customer changes their mind, and they want to stop retyping the same order into a second system. That is the work we take.

So we do not start with technology. We start with one afternoon watching where your week actually goes, and we only build the things that pay for themselves inside a quarter.

A normal Tuesday now

  • 08:40Sorting 60 emails to find the 6 that matter
  • 10:15Copying an order from the inbox into the system
  • 11:30Writing the same quote for the fourth time this week
  • 14:00Chasing a lead from Friday that already went cold
  • 16:20Rebuilding last week's numbers in a spreadsheet

A Tuesday after us

  • 08:40Six emails waiting, the rest already answered and logged
  • 10:15Order is in the system, you approved it with one click
  • 11:30Quote drafted from the call, you edited two lines
  • 14:00Lead was followed up on Friday at 16:04
  • 16:20Numbers arrived Monday, in plain sentences
How we work together

Three ways in. All of them start small.

No open ended consultancy. You always know the price and the date before we begin.

The Scan

Free
One call of 45 minutes
  • We map where your team's hours actually go
  • You get a written shortlist of what is worth automating
  • With an estimate of hours saved and what it would cost
  • Yours to keep, also if you build it yourself
Book the scan

The Sprint

€2,500 fixed
One build week, one process live
  • One week of my time, you pick the process
  • Built, tested and running on your real data
  • Your team trained to use and adjust it
  • A measured before and after, in hours and euros
  • Bigger process? Two weeks for €4,500
Start a sprint

The Partnership

from €1,500 per month
Monthly, cancel any time, priced to scope
  • We keep automating process after process
  • Monitoring and repairs when something breaks
  • Direct line to me, not a ticket queue
  • You own every account and system we build
Talk it through
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Proof

The first company I automated was my own.

La Columnista is a subscription platform connecting influencers and hospitality venues across Germany. I built it, I run it, and I still handle the customers. That is where every method on this page was tested first.

Levi Kotten, founder of Lithework
Levi Kotten Founder of Lithework

What we automated there

Onboarding mails, payment failures, cancellations and monthly partner reports used to be handled by hand, one customer at a time. Today the payment system triggers the right message on its own, cancellations are logged with a reason, and partners receive their monthly overview without anyone opening a spreadsheet.

The result is not a chatbot. It is a business with paying customers in three cities that does not need a support department.

See the platform at lacolumnista.app →

Ask me to walk you through it on the call →

125+paying customers handled without a support team
3 citiesBerlin, Hamburg and Cologne, one operator
15 hrsreturned to my own week, every week
Same hands, bigger work

And when something has to be built, we build that too.

La Columnista is not a side project I had made for me. I wrote the platform myself: the web app, the mobile app in the App Store, the payments, the admin. So when an automation stops because the system simply does not exist yet, you do not need a second supplier for that.

Custom software

Your own platform instead of a subscription to someone else's

If your company runs on a spreadsheet nobody dares to touch anymore, we turn it into a real system. With logins, permissions, billing and an admin screen you can actually operate yourself.

App and web

Apps that genuinely make it into the stores

iOS and Android from one codebase, plus the website around it. From first screen to approved by Apple, including the maintenance afterwards. I have been through that process myself, rejections included.

SEO

Found by people who are searching

Technique, speed and content that matches what your customers actually type. Not a monthly report full of graphs, but the question of whether the phone rings more often.

GEO

Mentioned by ChatGPT and Google AI

More and more customers no longer search, they ask an AI. If you are not in that answer, you do not exist. We make sure your business is the source those answers come from. This is new, which is exactly why there is still room.

Available separately, but usually it arrives on its own: first we automate what you do today, and then something turns out to be missing that has to be built.

The route

What actually happens, week by week.

01

The scan call

45 minutes. You describe the week, I ask uncomfortable questions about where things get retyped. You get the shortlist in writing within two days.

Day 1
02

One afternoon on site

I sit next to the people doing the work. Not to interview them, to watch. This is where the real time sinks show up, and they are never the ones management expects.

Week 1
03

Build the first one

One week, the highest impact process only. Running on your real data, connected to the systems you already pay for. You see it work before we discuss anything bigger.

Week 2
04

Measure and hand over

We compare the before and after in hours. Your team gets the documentation and the logins. If the number disappoints, you owe me nothing further.

End of week 2
Straight answers

What people ask before they call.

We are a small company. Is this for us?

If five people repeat the same tasks every week, there is enough here. Small companies are actually the best fit, because one decision maker can say yes and the change is visible within days instead of quarters.

Do we have to replace our current software?

Almost never. We build on top of what you already use. Replacing systems is slow and expensive, and it is rarely where the waste sits.

What if the automation breaks?

Everything we build sends an alert when it fails, and falls back to a human instead of silently doing nothing. During a sprint I fix it myself. With a partnership, monitoring and repair are included.

Will this cost people their jobs?

The work we remove is the part people complain about, not the part they were hired for. In my own company it meant I stopped needing to hire for admin at all, while the people already there got their afternoons back. If your plan is to cut headcount, I am probably the wrong partner.

What happens to our data?

We work GDPR compliant, keep data in Europe where possible, and use business tier AI services that do not train on your content. You get a written overview of what goes where, and you own every account.

Why should I trust a young company?

Because you can check the work. I run a software business with paying customers in three countries and I built the automation in it myself. The scan is free, the first project is fixed price, and there is no long contract to sign.

Next step

Find out what your week is really costing.

Book the free scan. Forty five minutes, no slides. You leave with a written shortlist of what is worth automating in your company, whether you hire me or not.

Emailhello@lithework.nl
Phone+31 6 53 63 07 85
Based inAmsterdam, working across the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany
CompanyLithework, KvK 78747694