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 — £1,950 Not sure it's fixable? Get a free 20-minute verdict →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. If we find the design is wrong at the root, I'll tell you on day one and quote separately — I won't quietly burn your budget.
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.
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) | ~15 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.
You'll get a one-page scope and a PayPal invoice for the £975 deposit within one working day.
Pay by card or bank transfer — no PayPal account needed. Purchase orders welcome.
If I don't think I can fix it, I'll say so before you pay a penny.
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.
Olugbenga Owolabi. 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, with a separate quote. The rescue fee stands or is credited in full against the larger piece — your choice.
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.
Professional indemnity and cyber liability, ICO-registered, and every engagement runs under a written statement of work and a GDPR data-processing agreement.