Spreadsheet work
Critical numbers live in files that one or two people keep up by hand. When they are out, so is the picture.
Fix the manual work slowing your operations.
BIY finds where your team loses time, then builds the automation and AI agents that remove it.
Pick a process. Watch it get mapped.
Ranked opportunities
Example process, illustrative. Your assessment maps your own.
What is FDE?
Forward Deployed Engineering, in plain words.
It means an engineer works inside your business instead of handing you software and walking away. We learn how your team really works, find where time is lost, and build the fix with your people, on your systems.
No generic tool. No long sales cycle. We start with a conversation, map what is slowing you down, and only then build.
- EmbeddedWe work alongside your team.
- PracticalBuilt around your own processes.
- Hands-onWe build it and make sure it works.
The work that quietly eats your week.
Disconnected systems
Your CRM, accounting and email do not talk to each other, so people copy between them.
Repetitive admin
The same steps every day, week and month, done by people who could be doing better work.
Slow, manual reporting
Reports are built by hand, arrive late and are stale by the time someone reads them.
Manual approvals and data entry
Requests wait in inboxes for a signature, and the same details get typed into more than one system.
If two or more of these sound like your week, an assessment is built to show you where the time goes.
Three steps. You decide at each one.
Each step stands on its own. You decide whether to continue after you have seen what it produced.
Discovery call
A conversation about how work moves through your business today and where it stalls. We tell you plainly if an assessment is not a fit.
Paid operational assessment
A fixed-scope engagement. We map your processes, find where time is lost and rank the opportunities, using your own data.
Implementation project
If you choose to proceed, BIY builds the agreed automations, AI agents and integrations as a scoped project.
The assessment
A fixed-scope engagement, built on your own data.
We study how work actually moves through your business, then hand you three things you can use whether or not you hire BIY to build anything.
Process map
How work really moves between people and systems today, in plain language, including the handoffs nobody wrote down.
- Request
- Re-keyed
- Review
- Chased
- Done
Ranked opportunities
Automation and AI opportunities in order, so you know where to start and what to leave alone.
- Start here
- Then
- After that
ROI model
A model built from your own numbers, so any business case is one you can check and challenge.
Filled in with you, from your data.
- Scope
- Fixed, agreed before work starts
- Price
- Scoped on the discovery call
- Length
- Scoped on the discovery call
The model reflects your data and the assumptions we agree together. It is a planning tool, not a guarantee of any result.
Built for the people who run operations.
Owners
You see the drag in your own business and want an outside operator to say plainly where it comes from.
COOs
You own throughput and cost, and you need a clear, ranked view of what to automate first.
Operations leaders
Your team spends its days moving data between systems. You want that time back for work that needs judgment.
Next step
Book a discovery call.
Tell us what slows your operation down. We will say plainly whether an assessment makes sense for your business.