VentureOps NG · private, production-grade automation · UK-wide, remote
Automation RescueYou (or someone you paid) built an n8n, Make or Zapier workflow. It runs — until it doesn't. It fails quietly, drops records, duplicates invoices, and nobody notices for three days. I make it production-grade in five working days. £1,950 fixed — and you watch it working before you pay the balance.
Book the rescue — £975 deposit today Not sure it's fixable? Ask me first — free →None of that is an AI problem. It's an infrastructure and reliability problem, dressed up as an AI problem. That is what I have done for twenty years.
Every way your workflow can silently fail, written down in plain English with a severity ranking.
Proper error branches, exponential back-off on rate limits and timeouts, and dead-letter capture so nothing vanishes.
When it breaks, you know within minutes — email or Slack — not three days later from a customer.
Self-hosted properly: pinned versions, encrypted credentials, automated backups, restart-on-failure, TLS. Your data stays on your infrastructure.
Grounded outputs, schema validation, and a fail-closed rule so a hallucinated price or reference never reaches a customer.
An architecture diagram, a runbook for the three most likely failures, and a 30-minute walkthrough recording. You are not locked to me.
Every one of the five days happens on a duplicate of your setup. Your live system keeps running exactly as it does today, untouched, the whole time.
You're not paying me for a promise. And I'm not putting five days of work onto your production server before I've been paid for it. It protects both of us.
New features. This is a rescue, not a rebuild.
More than three workflows. Beyond that it's a different engagement and a different price.
Anything I can't test. I need sandbox access to the systems it touches. No access, no rescue.
A root-cause rebuild. If the full audit shows the design is wrong at the root rather than the plumbing, I tell you that on day one in writing. You can stop there and pay for day one only — £390, with the rest of your deposit back within five working days — or roll the whole fee into a separate quote for the bigger piece. Your choice, and I won't quietly burn your budget either way.
And the one thing nobody else offers: a written, honest verdict on whether you should be running this at all. Sometimes the right answer is "delete it and use the feature your CRM already has." I'll say so, and refund the difference.
| UK workers lose 31% of the working week to admin — the worst in Europe (Ricoh, Nov 2025) | ~11.6 hrs/wk |
| UK SMEs spend more time on admin than on selling (Amex / Small Business Saturday, Jul 2026) | 11 hrs/wk |
| Owner-operators lose ten working weeks a year to admin they could automate (HeyBRB, Mar 2026) | 384 hrs/yr |
| At the ONS median wage of £19.67/hr, that is worth | £7,550/yr |
| A broken automation you're still paying for, and still checking by hand | all of the above |
A workflow that needs a human to babysit it is not an automation. It's a second job you bought. £1,950 buys the version that doesn't need you.
For comparison: Deloitte's published UK government rate card lists a Level 5 architect at £1,825 per day. This is five days, fixed, for a little over one of those.
Fixed price. Five working days.
£975 to book. £975 only after you've watched it work.
Want it watched after it's fixed? Reliability Watch — £495/month: monitoring, alert response, monthly health report, and small changes included. First month free with a rescue.
Not everyone needs the full rescue, and I'd rather tell you that than sell you one.
Send me what's happening and within two working days I'll write back with a diagnosis — what's actually failing, why, and what it's likely costing you. Free, no obligation, and no one calls you.
If it's something small, I'll say so. If it needs the five-day rescue, I'll say that too, and you can decide.
Twenty years running the IT infrastructure businesses actually depend on — Microsoft and Linux estates, Azure, virtualisation, backup and disaster recovery, networking and security — with a 100% service-level track record. MSc Embedded Systems & IC Design; MSc Microelectronics & Communications. I also build and ship production software end to end, and I run a self-hosted LLM and retrieval stack on my own hardware.
Which means: I'm not a prompt consultant who learned n8n last year. I'm the engineer who gets called when the thing that must not go down has gone down — and I now do that for AI automations.
Because you watch it. On day five I run the fixed version on a duplicate of your setup, break it on purpose while you're watching, show you the alert landing, and restore a backup in front of you. You get a read-only login and five working days to test it yourself. The final invoice comes after that, and your live system is only changed once it's paid — in a window you choose, after a snapshot.
Yes, and I'd prefer to. I work against a duplicate with synthetic or anonymised records wherever possible. Where live access is unavoidable it's scoped, time-limited, logged, and covered by a data-processing agreement.
Then it won't. I run open-weight models on my own infrastructure and can deploy the same on yours — your documents and customer data never leave your building. Most "AI automation" providers cannot do this. It's the main reason people call me.
Five working days of delivery inside a two-week window, so it fits around your team. You get a status note at the end of each one. No silence. The cutover is a separate short session afterwards.
You'll know on day one, in writing. From there it's your call: stop and pay for day one only — £390, with the rest of the deposit refunded within five working days — or roll the fee into a separate quote for the larger piece. What I won't do is spend the other four days papering over it and invoice you the full amount.
You can, and for a simple two-step workflow you probably should. The reason you're reading this is that you already tried the cheap version and it's the thing that's broken. Reliability is not a rate, it's a discipline.
Every engagement runs under a written statement of work and a GDPR data processing agreement. Access is named, two-factor protected, logged and removed on the handover date, and I work on a duplicate rather than your live system. Professional indemnity and cyber liability cover is being put in place, and I'll confirm the policy details to you in writing before any engagement that gives me access to your servers — ask me and I'll tell you exactly where that stands on the day.