The copying, chasing and double-checking you’ve learned to live with used to be too small to build software for. AI changed the maths. Today a first working fix can exist in days.
An independent studio by Jan Sannabrink.
Illustration, the fix: a straight highlighted line takes the email to the spreadsheet on its own. The long way fades. The yellow bit is what I build.
Pick the one that happens in your business, then make it yours.
pick one, then change it until it’s yours
None of these is a crisis. Together they cost hours every week, and eventually the one mistake that costs real money.
For example
costs you time
The same numbers are typed in twice, by hand.
Illustration, the fix: a straight highlighted line takes it from the order email to the order system on its own.
An order comes in by email. Someone opens it. They type every number in by hand. They check it against the original, once more. Only then is it in the order system.
That’s mine. Use it as my message
pick a line on the left, and build your own workaround here
Custom software used to mean a specification, a quote, a large budget and months of waiting before you could click on anything. So small problems never got fixed. They got workarounds.
That has changed. A first working version can now exist in days, sometimes hours. That makes it worth trying on problems nobody would have touched before. [[JAN: confirm "sometimes hours" is true for at least one project. If not, delete ", sometimes hours".]]
same problem, different decade
You don’t need more AI. You need fewer problems.
Something ran by hand. Now it doesn’t. My clients are under NDA, so here’s what changed rather than who.
Fence manufacturer
Illustration, now: the order goes straight into the forecast and the delivery date updates itself.
Staffing agency
Illustration, now: the same criteria are applied on their own and the lead list fills itself.
Healthcare software team
Illustration, now: every report lands on the board on its own, already sorted.
Health
[[JAN: one sentence]]
Content production
[[JAN: one sentence]]
Real estate
[[JAN: one sentence]]
None of them set out to “do AI”. They picked one annoying thing and had it built.
no project. one thing.
I don’t replace your systems. Usually I build the piece that’s missing between them.
What I don’t do: strategy decks, workshops, transformation programmes, packages.
[[JAN: 2–3 sentences in your own words: background, why you work alone, what you enjoy about this work.]]
Independent studio based in Coburg, Germany. Working in English with businesses anywhere.
– Jan
Tell me what keeps happening by hand. Two or three sentences are enough. I’ll tell you honestly whether it’s worth building.