Process Design3 min read
The process that lives in one person's head
When that person leaves, the process doesn't slow down. It disappears. Documentation is not a compliance exercise — it is continuity infrastructure.
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MADE EX NIHILO
Built because the work proved it was possible.
The business was conceived the day its founder completed a full-stack Microsoft 365 system that a multi-billion pound organisation deployed across an entire region. The question that followed was simple: if that is what can be built for someone else, what could be built independently?
LONDON, UK · FOUNDED 2026 · FROM NOTHING, EVERYTHING
01 — MADE EX NIHILO
THE SITUATION
Sixty managers. Two hundred sites. One spreadsheet process holding the whole thing together.
Each manager submitted a separate file on a recurring cycle. Someone opened sixty files and aggregated the data by hand. Error correction. Re-submissions. Manual chasing. The cycle was only as fast as the slowest submission.
50+ HOURS LOST · EVERY REPORTING CYCLE · ACROSS MULTIPLE COUNTRIES
02 — THE SITUATION
THE SOLUTION
Built inside Microsoft 365. Nothing new to license.
Structured Forms replaced free-form spreadsheets. Power Automate handled routing, acknowledgements, and escalation reminders. A SharePoint hub aggregated all submissions into a single permission-controlled source of truth. Automated reporting pulled live from the data layer.
MICROSOFT FORMS · POWER AUTOMATE · SHAREPOINT · AUTOMATED REPORTING
03 — THE SOLUTION
THE IMPACT
Manual aggregation eliminated. Entirely.
Reports that did not exist before became available in real time. The operations team stopped chasing and started managing. Conservative estimates put the annual labour cost of the replaced process at £12,000–£49,000 depending on reporting frequency.
100% MANUAL AGGREGATION ELIMINATED · £12K–£49K ANNUAL SAVING · LIVE IN UNDER ONE MONTH
04 — THE IMPACT
YOUR BUSINESS
Your team is probably doing something similar right now.
The same pattern applies at every size. Spreadsheets that started as a quick fix. Email chains that became the system. Manual steps nobody has time to question because everybody is too busy doing them. That is a solvable problem.
FIXED SCOPE · DOCUMENTED · HANDED OVER · YOU OWN IT COMPLETELY
05 — YOUR BUSINESS
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From the journal
Thinking out loud.
SharePoint5 min read
SharePoint is not a file dump
Most teams use SharePoint the way they used shared drives. That is like using a database to store Post-it notes.
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Automation4 min read
Automating a broken process makes it faster at being broken
Before any automation work begins, map what is actually happening — not what is supposed to be happening. Those two things are rarely the same.
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