Give the work back to the people
Intelligent Automation
Automate the repetitive, rule-bound work that consumes skilled people — with a human in the loop wherever judgement genuinely matters.
- Hours returned per month
- 1 240
- Median across automation programmes in their first full year.
- Processing error rate
- 91%
- Reduction in data-entry errors after removing manual re-keying.
- Payback period
- 5 months
- Median time for an automation programme to cover its build cost.
Our position
How we think about it
Automation fails when it is applied to a broken process; you simply get the wrong answer faster. We map the process first, remove the steps that exist only because of a historical system limitation, and then automate what remains. Exceptions route to a person with the full context in front of them, and every automated decision is logged and reversible.
What you receive
- Process map with cycle time and cost per step
- Automation candidate list ranked by payback period
- Orchestration platform with visual run history
- Exception queues with full audit context
- Rollback and manual-override procedures
- Savings dashboard measured against the pre-automation baseline
Capabilities
What we actually build
- Business process mapping and re-design
- Workflow orchestration with human approval gates
- Document and invoice processing
- Automated reconciliation and exception handling
- Scheduled and event-driven data pipelines
- System-to-system integration replacing manual re-keying
- Notification, escalation and SLA tracking
- Robotic process automation for systems without APIs
Technologies we use
- Temporal
- n8n
- Node.js
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- RabbitMQ
- Playwright
- Docker
Process
How a intelligent automation engagement runs
Each phase ends with something you can look at and a decision you can make.
- 012 weeks
Map the process
We shadow the work as it is actually done and measure cycle time, touch points and rework — not how the SOP says it happens.
- 021 week
Simplify first
Eliminate steps before automating them. The cheapest automation is the one you did not need to build.
- 034–8 weeks
Automate the spine
The high-volume, rule-bound path goes first, with exceptions routed to people from day one.
- 04Ongoing
Widen the envelope
Each exception category is analysed and, where the rules are clear enough, brought into the automated path.
- 05Ongoing
Prove the saving
A dashboard comparing current cycle time and cost against the baseline we measured in step one.
Questions
Intelligent Automation — common questions
If yours is not here, ask Nova or send it to us directly.
Will this cost people their jobs?
That is your decision, not ours, and we will not pretend otherwise. In practice most clients redeploy people onto the exception and judgement work that was previously being squeezed in around the data entry. We help you plan that shift explicitly.What if the automation makes a mistake?
Every automated action is logged with its inputs and is reversible. Confidence thresholds route uncertain cases to a person, and you set those thresholds — conservatively at first, then tuned as evidence accumulates.Our system has no API. Can you still automate it?
Usually yes, via a hardened browser-automation layer with screenshot-based verification. It is less robust than an API, so we treat it as a bridge while a proper integration is negotiated.How do you decide what to automate first?
Volume × cycle time × error rate, divided by build effort. We publish the ranked list and you choose — it is your process and your priorities.