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Less friction. Something to show for it.

Automation and AI case studies from real workflows: where the friction was, what changed and what there is to show for it, with clear limits on what the results tell us. Every number below carries its own qualification.

01 · Operations · Work-order analysis · Founder experience · employed role

Preparation that gives the reviewer a head start.

A backlog of 700 complex work orders, with information to assemble before a reviewer could get to the judgement. Built with tools the team already had licences for.

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35 hours 30 minutes

Approximate preparation time before and after. These figures describe preparation, not total decision time, and not the removal of human review.

  1. 01 · The problem

    The review began with a search.

    Finding information and preparing a large workload consumed substantial manual effort before any judgement could happen.

  2. 02 · The change

    Bring the analysis to the reviewer.

    A parsing system assembled the workload into information a reviewer could examine, using tools already licensed.

  3. 03 · The human role

    Examine. Question. Decide.

    Operational reviewers still examined the prepared analysis and made the accountable decision.

02 · Automation · Reporting and operations · Founder experience · employed role

The same preparation, taken out of the week.

Recurring reporting and operational preparation kept returning to the working day. Automating the recurring steps returned capacity to the team.

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450+

hours returned annually

This result measures time returned. It doesn’t imply that a consequential decision was automated, or claim how the team later used that time. Only the approved annual time outcome is published; client identity and further detail remain confidential.

03 · SJ Roofing · Roofers Edge · Boring Future delivery

From the field to the next step.

Field activity, photographs and timesheets connected to management review, invoicing and operational visibility. People capture the reality of the work and make the calls.

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  1. 01 · PersonField activity
  2. 02Photos & timesheets
  3. 03 · PersonManagement review
  4. 04Invoicing
  5. 05Visibility

A connected workflow is the outcome described here. No quantified Roofers Edge performance improvement is claimed.

04 · Experience behind Boring Future

Founder-led. From first conversation to working system.

The work below was designed and delivered personally by Keiaan McLean, through McLeans IT and in employed roles.

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Founder experience · McLeans IT

KTC Edibles

A full ITSM build and implementation for a major UK food business.

  • c. £560m group turnover
  • four production sites
  • around 450 staff
  • supplying major UK supermarkets
  • Designed and implemented a complete IT service-management system.
  • Redesigned the ticketing journey, from incoming request through triage, handling and follow-up to resolution, as one managed process.
  • Automated service-level tracking, notifications, routing and reporting.

The ticketing journey, as one managed process

  1. 01Incoming request
  2. 02Triage
  3. 03 · PersonHandling
  4. 04Follow-up
  5. 05Resolution
Founder experience · Employed roles

Major UK hospitality groups

Reporting and operational automation supporting some of the UK’s largest hospitality estates. The work spans high-volume service data, performance reporting, business rules and supplier coordination across enterprise systems.

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What would count as a result for you?

Bring one workflow and we’ll measure how it happens today before we promise anything. A free conversation, thirty to forty-five minutes.