Tempo — Business Automation

Your business, running itself.

Tempo automates the manual work quietly bleeding hours from your business — so your team stops doing the work a system should be doing, and starts doing the work that actually grows the company.

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Most businesses lose hours every single day to work a system could do instantly — routing leads, sending follow-ups, syncing data between tools, generating reports, triggering notifications, onboarding customers. It compounds silently. The team is always busy, but rarely productive.

Tempo fixes that. We map your manual processes, identify exactly what can be automated, and build workflows that run without anyone touching them. Whether it's a single automation connecting two tools or a full operational system spanning your entire stack, the goal is the same: remove the manual bottleneck permanently.

We build on the leading automation platforms — n8n for complex, self-hosted, and custom logic; Make and Zapier where they fit the job — and we architect Notion into a genuine operating system for teams that live in it. The result is infrastructure you own, not another per-seat SaaS subscription bleeding you monthly.

Who it's for

Built for

SME owners doing $200/hour thinking on $20/hour admin tasks
Operations managers who know something is broken but can't name the fix
Growing teams drowning in manual data entry, follow-ups, and reporting
Businesses running on spreadsheets, copy-paste, and memory

The problem we solve

Repetitive manual work — lead routing, follow-up emails, data syncing, report generation, onboarding steps — compounds silently until the team is fully occupied but nothing is actually moving forward. Most businesses don't realise how much time they're losing until it's mapped in front of them.

What you're actually buying

Hours back, permanently, with no ongoing cost beyond the build.

What we do

Workflow Automation

Custom n8n, Make, and Zapier workflows connecting the tools you already use — CRM, email, sheets, payments, messaging. Lead routing, notifications, data sync, and scheduled tasks that run themselves.

Process Mapping

We map your manual processes end-to-end, identify what can be automated, and deliver a prioritised automation plan before a single workflow is built — so you see the ROI before you commit.

Notion Systems

Fully architected Notion workspaces — operational dashboards, CRMs, project systems, SOPs, and databases wired into your workflow. Built for teams that run their business in Notion.

Integration Builds

Connecting disconnected tools via API and webhooks so data flows automatically instead of being carried by hand between platforms.

AI-Assisted Automation

Automations enhanced with AI — content drafting, classification, summarisation, and decision support built into the workflow, with human approval where it matters.

Automation Retainer

Ongoing monthly automation builds, maintenance, and additions — a continuous improvement engine for your operations as the business grows.

How we do it

Automation done badly creates fragile systems that break silently and cost more than the manual work they replaced. Tempo follows a disciplined process so every automation is reliable, observable, and owned by you.

Map
We document your current process end-to-end — every step, tool, and handoff — and identify exactly where automation creates the most leverage.
Prioritise
We rank automation opportunities by time saved versus build effort, so the highest-value work happens first.
Build
We build the workflows on the right platform for the job, with error handling and fallbacks so nothing fails silently.
Test
Every automation is tested against real scenarios and edge cases before it touches live data.
Handover
You get a working system, documentation, and full ownership — no black boxes, no lock-in.

Why it pays

Reclaim hours every week — permanently, not temporarily

Connect the tools you already use — no rip-and-replace

Built once, runs forever — no per-seat SaaS bloat

Tools we work with

n8nOur primary engine for complex, custom, and self-hosted automation — full control, no per-task pricing ceiling.
Make (Integromat)Visual, powerful multi-step scenarios where a hosted platform fits the client's needs.
ZapierFast, reliable connections across thousands of apps for straightforward automation needs.
NotionArchitected as a full operational system — databases, dashboards, CRMs, and SOPs wired to your workflow.
Supabase / PostgresWhen automation needs a real database behind it rather than a spreadsheet.
APIs & WebhooksCustom integrations connecting tools that don't natively talk to each other.
AI modelsDrafting, classification, and summarisation built into workflows with human-in-the-loop control.

Selected work

Featured

ZOLA Look

First client. A Shopify fashion store whose theme editor the previous developer had locked into hidden regions — unlocked completely and handed back to the owner, then revamped: light and dark across the store, corrected product and shop typography, a location-detecting global currency converter, and Meta, TikTok and Google Ads aggregated into Shopify alongside the brand's own social accounts.

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Featured

Spread.co

A fully custom SaaS platform for an organic grocer, built on Supabase and deployed on Vercel. PostGIS region polygons with per-region capacity gating and worldwide smart address lookup, a Stripe-synced subscription tier builder and checkout, an inbuilt CMS for the marketing and policy pages, and Make and Resend lifecycle email from abandoned cart through weekly reorder.

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Where this crosses over

The crossover principle is verb-based, not tool-based. What the client needs done to a tool determines which service it belongs to:

Building / coding / architecting from scratch → Groundwork
Connecting / automating / orchestrating between tools → Tempo
Strategising / designing / governing before either → Compass

Need a tool or app built from scratch rather than automated between existing ones? That's Groundwork — custom builds and internal systems.

Not sure whether to automate, rebuild, or rethink the whole process first? That's Compass — strategy and architecture before you commit.

Notion is a clear example of the crossover: a Notion system built from scratch is a build, but connecting Notion to your other tools and triggering actions between them is automation. The same applies to Supabase, Stripe, and CRMs — what you need done to the tool decides which service it sits in.

If you're doing it more than twice a week by hand, it should be automated.

Tell us what's eating your time. We'll show you what a system could do with it instead.