AI Automation — SkillMix

Custom AI automation for the repetitive work quietly eating your team's week. Not templates. Not no-code duct tape. Systems built for your operation, integrated into your stack, running on day one. Fixed price, fixed date, no-cure-no-pay.

Most automations achieve 60–80% efficiency gains.


The observation — every team has a "Tuesday" problem

Three patterns we see in almost every operations review:

  1. The inbox that never empties. Requests, approvals, confirmations. Each one a 90-second tax on someone senior. Multiplied by 80 a day, 200 days a year.
  2. The copy-paste that refuses to die. Two systems that don't talk. A human translating between them, field by field, every day, hoping they don't fat-finger a decimal.
  3. The report rebuilt from scratch. Again. Friday afternoon. Same queries, same pivots, same spreadsheet someone's been maintaining for six years. No one remembers why the formulas are purple.

You didn't hire your team to do this. And yet, that's exactly what they're doing.


What we build

Not a chatbot. Not a workflow wizard. A purpose-built system that takes the repetitive work off your plate, and shows its work every step of the way. Every system follows the same internal shape:

  1. Intake — trigger fires. Email, form, webhook, schedule, signal from your stack.
  2. Understand — LLMs and classifiers extract what matters. Validate. Match. Reason.
  3. Act — post to systems. Notify humans. Create, update, route, approve.
  4. Verify — acceptance tests run continuously. Exceptions flagged. Nothing silent.

Patterns we've shipped before

These are shapes the work has taken before. Yours will probably look different.

01 · Lead-to-Cash — €6K – €12K

From inbound lead to signed invoice, without someone babysitting the pipeline. Qualify, route, follow up, draft, bill. Deliverables: lead capture & qualification · automated CRM updates · invoice generation · payment reminders · cash-flow visibility. Typical: 3–6 weeks · ERP + CRM.

02 · Reporting & KPIs — €5K – €10K

The weekly report writes itself. Every number traceable to source. No more Friday afternoons. Deliverables: automated KPI dashboards · scheduled reports to Slack/email · cross-tool data sync · anomaly and forecast alerts. Typical: 2–4 weeks · warehouse + BI.

03 · Inbox & Triage — €7K – €9K

Email or ticket streams classified, summarised, routed. Humans only see what actually needs a human. Deliverables: AI email classification · smart routing to people or systems · automated ticket creation · daily summaries · optional auto-replies. Typical: 2–3 weeks · email/helpdesk.

04 · Core Workflow — from €10K

The thing only your company does. Your weird, specific, mission-critical process. The one a template could never capture. The starting point for most companies. Deliverables: workflow analysis & design · custom integration architecture · bespoke automation logic · multi-system orchestration. Typical: 4–8 weeks · custom.

05 · Something else entirely

Most of the work we actually do lives here — a process that doesn't have a name yet. Bring the one you thought was too weird to automate.


How it goes — four phases, no surprises

Phase 01 · Scope Sprint — Paid · 1–2 weeks · €1,000 – €1,500

We map the workflow, shadow the people doing it, and write the acceptance criteria. You leave with a concrete plan: scope, timeline, fixed price, and exactly what "done" means.

  • Process mapping
  • Technical feasibility
  • Risk register
  • Written acceptance criteria

Worst case: you walk away with a diagnosis. Still useful.

Phase 02 · Prototype — No cure, no pay · ~2 weeks · ~€8,000

A scrappy, working MVP that proves the business value on real data. Fast, rough, honest. If it doesn't demonstrate the outcome we agreed on, you don't pay (except hard costs like compute).

  • End-to-end working slice
  • Run on your real data
  • Measurable outcome vs. baseline
  • Go / no-go decision at the end

If the numbers don't add up, we stop here. No pressure to continue.

Phase 03 · Build — Fixed price · 4–8 weeks · €10,000 – €15,000

Prototype becomes production. Fixed price, fixed scope, weekly demos. If it fails the acceptance tests we wrote together, we fix it until it passes. No overruns, no surprise invoices.

  • Weekly working demos
  • Deployed into your stack
  • Documented, tested, handed over
  • Acceptance gate before go-live

Phase 04 · Run — Optional · month-to-month

Lightweight monitoring and iteration after go-live. Or hand it off entirely: your team owns the code, the infra, and the keys.

  • Uptime & drift monitoring
  • Monthly iteration window
  • Cancel anytime

Pricing summary

Phase Pricing No-cure-no-pay
Scope Sprint €1,000 – €1,500 No (always paid)
Prototype ~€8,000 Yes
Full build €10,000 – €15,000 Yes
Run (optional) month-to-month, scoped per system —

Typical project range: €4K – €14K. Actual pricing varies with use case, integrations, and data complexity.


Selected case studies

  • Real estate developer — cash flow system with real-time data and customisable credit structures; automated loan and interest calculations.
  • Wealth advisory firm — AI-driven lead generation system and automated onboarding funnel for high-net-worth clients.

Frequently asked

What if our process doesn't look like any of your examples? Good. Those are the ones we find most interesting. Most of our projects don't fit a template — they're the weird, specific thing your company does that no off-the-shelf tool understands. Bring it.

We don't have clean data. Is that a blocker? Rarely. Data hygiene is part of the build. We've scoped projects where step one was writing the queries that produced the data the business thought it already had.

How is this different from n8n, Make, Zapier? Those tools are great for moving data between boxes. We build when the work requires judgment, not plumbing.

What happens if it breaks? Every system ships with acceptance tests and monitoring. Failures route to a human with full context, never silently. Run-phase SLAs are defined up front.

GDPR, security, where does the data live? EU-hosted by default. Standard DPAs and sub-processor agreements. For sensitive work we run on-prem or in your own cloud account. The code is yours.

Who actually builds it? The people you meet in the Scope Sprint. No handoff, no juniors, no offshore. Small team, senior operators, end to end.


Links

  • Get started: https://skillmix.nl/get-started
  • Booking (free 30-min scan): https://app.reclaim.ai/m/skillmix/exploration-call
  • Other practices: /ai-agents.md · /modeling.md
  • Service terms: /service-terms.md