Workflow Automation

AI-assisted automation for manufacturers.

We build automation that eliminates repetitive data entry, structures handoffs between departments, and moves information between your ERP, CRM, email, and shop systems. An intelligent layer handles the judgment calls.

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The Hidden Cost of Manual Handoffs

Every Handoff Is a Chance for Work to Stall.

Sales closes an order. Someone retypes it into the ERP. Production copies it into a scheduling spreadsheet, purchasing emails a vendor, and accounting waits on a signed packing slip. Every handoff takes time, creates errors, and adds cost, on every order, every day.

Signs manual handoffs are slowing you down:

  • The same order information gets entered into three or four systems
  • Approvals sit in email until someone remembers to follow up
  • Production can't start because an earlier step wasn't flagged as done
  • Exception handling depends on whoever happens to catch it
  • New customers, vendors, and SKUs take days to set up across systems
  • Month-end closes require a scramble to reconcile data across tools

What We Build

Automation That Knows the Difference Between a Rule and a Judgment Call

We build automation using n8n, custom integrations, and the Claude API as the intelligent layer. The routine work moves on its own, and the judgment calls get routed to the right person with the right context. Connected to SAP Business One, NetSuite, Epicor Kinetic, Dynamics 365 BC, and custom systems. Everything we handle, grouped by what it does for your operation.

  1. Move orders without retyping

    From sales order to invoice, entered once.

    • Order-to-Cash Automation

      Order entry, credit checks, release, shipping, and billing, with exceptions routed to the right person.

    • ERP Data Sync & Integration

      Keep your ERP, CRM, scheduling, quality, and accounting in sync, so data is entered once.

    • Document Generation & Processing

      Quotes, POs, packing slips, and COAs generated automatically, and inbound PDFs read by AI.

  2. Route work and approvals

    Get the right step to the right person, automatically.

    • Automated Approvals & Routing

      POs, quality holds, and credit overrides routed by rules, tracked, and audit-ready.

    • Shop Floor Workflow Triggers

      A status change, finished cycle, or failed check triggers the next step automatically.

    • Customer & Vendor Onboarding Automation

      New-account setup across every system in hours instead of days.

  3. Let AI handle the busywork

    AI flags exceptions and drafts routine work. People make the calls.

    • MRP Analysis & Production Monitoring Agents

      AI agents watch MRP output and flag material shortages before they reach production.

      Supports Inventory Optimization
    • Email & Communication Automation

      Inbound requests sorted and routed, with replies drafted for review.

    • Custom n8n & Claude API Workflows

      Rule-based and AI workflows your team can see, understand, and extend.

Typical results

What changes when the routine work moves on its own

The team stops retyping data across systems, approvals stop stalling, and the hours spent on handoffs get redirected to work that actually requires a person.

  • 70%

    Average reduction in manual data entry across systems

  • 50%

    Typical improvement in approval and handoff turnaround

  • 40%

    Average drop in errors from inconsistent team handoffs

Typical improvements reported for systems like these. Results vary by operation.

Systems deployed inside real operations

Operational Impact in Action

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Our Approach

How We Eliminate the Manual Busywork

A structured process to automate repetitive workflows and remove the friction slowing your operation down, all without disrupting what already works.

  1. Process Mapping

    We trace your manual, repetitive workflows end to end, including the approvals, the data re-entry, and the handoffs between people and systems, to find exactly where time and accuracy are being lost.

  2. Automation Strategy

    We pinpoint which steps are worth automating and which are better left to people, then design a plan that removes the busywork without disrupting the parts of your process that already work well.

  3. Build & Integrate

    We build the automations and connect them across your existing tools, so tasks that used to require manual triggering now happen on their own, reliably and consistently, without someone remembering to do them.

  4. Monitor & Optimize

    We put guardrails and alerts in place so you can trust the automation is running correctly, then keep refining it as your operation grows and your processes evolve.

Testimonials

Rated 4.9/5 on Clutch and backed by client results

Successful deployment of projects into our production environment within desired timeframe and budget.

Jeff RogersCutting Edge CountertopsRead the case study

The team is able to speak intelligently about what they're going to do and what potential issues would be. I've had a lot of contractors just nod their heads, without knowing what I'm asking for, and do whatever they want. Denovo Studios really took the time to understand what I was looking for.

Sam BorickVirginia Transportation CorporationRead the case study

I've worked with Denovo Studios for over a year now and the process has been absolutely seamless.

Dr. Ariel Smith, PhD, RNUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoRead the case study

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