Business process automation services

Automate the workflows your business depends on.

Keep the tools that work. Devyou builds the custom workflow, integrations, business rules, human review, and operating controls that turn them into one reliable system.

$5,000 per month. Month to month. One active milestone. Senior team plus AI. You own everything.
BUSINESS WORKFLOW SYSTEM ONLINE
ACTIVE MILESTONE One valuable process, automated end to end

Trigger, rules, data, integrations, approvals, exceptions, tests, release, and operating visibility

BUYCommodity tools that already workKEEP
CONNECTDurable APIs and shared dataINTEGRATE
BUILDThe rules and workflow that create advantageOWN
+ HUMAN REVIEW + EXCEPTION QUEUE + CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

What business process automation means

Move a business outcome through people, rules, data, and systems.

IBM defines business process automation as the use of software to automate complex or repetitive business processes. The important word is process: a real outcome often crosses departments, applications, decisions, data sources, and exceptions.

Devyou does not begin by wiring together every step exactly as it exists. We learn the operation, remove unnecessary movement, decide where judgment belongs, and automate the smallest complete workflow worth owning. The result is software your team can understand, operate, recover, and keep improving.

TASK AUTOMATION

A shortcut removes one manual action.

Useful for narrow, stable work. But the overall process can remain split across inboxes, spreadsheets, applications, and undocumented human memory.

A FASTER STEP CAN STILL LIVE INSIDE A BROKEN WORKFLOW
BUSINESS PROCESS AUTOMATION

The complete outcome becomes an operable system.

Triggers, data, decisions, approvals, integrations, exceptions, and visibility work together while people retain control where judgment matters.

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AUTOMATE THE PROCESS, NOT ONLY THE HAPPY PATH

Buy, connect, build, or keep human

The first automation decision is what not to build.

Experienced product engineering is useful because the answer is rarely all custom or all off-the-shelf. We choose the boundary that protects your advantage without creating unnecessary software to maintain.

01 / BUY

Use proven commodity tools

Payments, email, identity, accounting, storage, signatures, and common back-office functions usually deserve mature products rather than reinvention.

02 / CONNECT

Integrate through durable interfaces

Use APIs, webhooks, imports, exports, and scheduled work to keep useful systems while moving the right data between them.

03 / BUILD

Own the strategic workflow

Custom-build the rules, customer experience, data model, coordination, and operating insight that encode how your business creates value.

04 / HUMAN

Preserve consequential judgment

Route ambiguity, low-confidence AI, sensitive communication, and irreversible decisions to a person with the context to act responsibly.

05 / REPLACE

Retire a tool only when earned

Replace an existing system when its constraints create more risk or work than migration, ownership, and continued maintenance.

06 / STOP

Do not automate waste

Simplify unclear roles, unnecessary approvals, duplicate data, and unstable rules before software makes the bad process run faster.

Which processes are worth automating?

Start where repetition, risk, and strategic value intersect.

Atlassian recommends looking at high-volume, time-sensitive, multi-person, and audit-sensitive work. We add another filter: automate first where better software can strengthen a business advantage, improve customer experience, or remove an operating constraint.

SIMPLIFY OR WAIT

Software would hide uncertainty instead of resolving it.

  • The process is rare and inexpensive to perform manually
  • No one agrees on the desired outcome or decision owner
  • The workflow changes before a single cycle can be observed
  • Automation depends on an unstable interface with no recovery path
  • The main goal is headcount reduction without process understanding
  • A standard product already solves the job well

Business process automation capabilities

One team across the workflow and the software behind it.

You bring the domain knowledge. Devyou turns it into an owned operating system and remains responsible as the real process reveals exceptions, new rules, and better opportunities.

MAP

Workflow discovery and redesign

Observe the current process, outcomes, roles, handoffs, waiting, workarounds, exceptions, and measures before choosing an automation boundary.

CONNECT

Custom integrations and APIs

Connect the systems the business relies on through APIs, webhooks, file exchange, scheduled work, and deliberately constrained bridges.

DECIDE

Rules, routing, and approvals

Encode stable decisions, assign work, enforce permissions, collect approval, and keep human judgment in the path where it belongs.

SYNC

Data movement and reconciliation

Define each source of truth, validate changes, prevent duplicates, surface disagreement, and make correction possible without hidden database surgery.

RUN

Queues and background operations

Process imports, documents, notifications, scheduled jobs, and outside events without making a customer wait or losing work during a temporary failure.

OPERATE

Admin and exception tools

Give operators the visibility to understand state, review edge cases, correct data, retry safely, and continue the workflow.

MEASURE

Audit history and process metrics

Record what happened, who or what made a decision, how long work waited, where it failed, and whether the process achieved its outcome.

IMPROVE

Continuous production ownership

Monitor, support, repair, and improve the automation as volume, vendors, customer needs, and operating reality change.

Our automation development process

Observe one process. Simplify it. Automate the complete outcome.

We do not ask for an exhaustive specification of the future organization. We build enough shared understanding to automate one coherent slice, release it into real work, and let evidence guide the next improvement.

01

Observe and measure

Follow the process from trigger to outcome. Identify systems, roles, business rules, waiting, errors, volume, edge cases, and the measure that should improve.

CURRENT REALITY
02

Simplify and design

Remove unnecessary work, choose sources of truth, set the buy-connect-build boundary, preserve human judgment, and define safe failure behavior.

RESPONSIBLE BOUNDARY
03

Release and improve

Build the end-to-end slice, test it against real cases, deploy with visibility, support operators, measure the result, and prioritize the next constraint.

WORKING EVIDENCE

Reliable integration and workflow software

The real system begins where the demo fails.

Outside services time out, repeat events, enforce limits, change records, and become temporarily unavailable. People reverse decisions. Data arrives late. A production workflow must make those conditions visible and recoverable.

TRUTH

Explicit data ownership

Every important record has an authoritative source and a defined direction of change.

ONCE

Idempotency and deduplication

Repeated requests and events can be handled without creating duplicate orders, charges, messages, or state changes.

RETRY

Finite retry with backoff

Transient failures retry without overwhelming the dependency, while persistent failures move toward review instead of looping forever.

QUEUE

Controlled asynchronous work

Queues absorb bursts and isolate slow outside systems so the main product stays responsive.

CHECK

Reconciliation

Scheduled comparisons detect missing, duplicated, delayed, or contradictory data across systems.

SEE

Logs, metrics, and alerts

The team can see workflow state, latency, errors, backlog, and business impact before a hidden failure becomes normal work.

RECOVER

Exception queue and manual repair

Operators receive the context and controls needed to review, correct, retry, skip, or compensate safely.

CONTROL

Permissions and audit history

Sensitive actions follow explicit authorization, and consequential decisions remain attributable.

AWS recommends idempotent responses so retries do not process the same request twice. Its architecture guidance also covers queues, retry, circuit breakers, rate limiting, and compensating actions. We treat these as ordinary workflow product requirements, not infrastructure trivia.

AI inside business process automation

Use AI for ambiguity. Keep commitments under control.

AI can classify documents, extract unstructured information, summarize history, draft communication, suggest a route, and help an operator review a case. It should not silently turn uncertainty into a payment, entitlement, deletion, or customer promise.

Devyou combines AI with deterministic rules, confidence thresholds, permissions, structured output validation, human review, audit history, and recovery. We also use AI inside our engineering process to build and test faster while experienced people remain accountable for the system.

AUTONOMY WITHOUT CONTROL

The demo is impressive until an edge case creates a commitment.

Unbounded actions, missing context, and invisible uncertainty turn a model error into customer, financial, or data damage.

CONFIDENCE IS NOT AUTHORIZATION
AI WITH AN OPERATING MODEL

Let AI assist where interpretation creates leverage.

Constrain inputs and actions, validate outputs, route uncertainty, record decisions, and make a safe human path part of the workflow.

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AI SERVES THE PROCESS, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND

Proof from systems we still operate

Automation becomes valuable through production ownership.

Podseeker and SocialPhotos coordinate data, customers, payments, permissions, integrations, background jobs, communication, administration, and exception handling. We have kept those systems useful through years of changing inputs and operating reality.

A long-term automation partner

We are in the same boat after the first workflow launches.

A one-time integration is easy to declare complete. A valuable business process keeps moving: an API changes, volume grows, a new exception appears, operators discover a better path, or the business model evolves. Devyou stays with the product and carries that context forward.

ONE-OFF AUTOMATION

The handoff arrives before operating knowledge does.

The happy path works, but ownership becomes unclear when a vendor changes, data disagrees, or a real exception appears.

THE BUSINESS INHERITS THE INTEGRATION RISK
DEVYOU MONTHLY PARTNERSHIP

The same team builds, operates, and improves the workflow.

Your domain expertise and our product engineering context compound across releases. We solve the next constraint with people who understand why the current system exists.

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PROGRESS EARNS THE NEXT MONTH

Straightforward automation pricing

One senior software team for one flat monthly rate.

Begin with the most valuable complete workflow, prove it in real operations, and continue only while the work remains useful. No staffing markup, giant speculative scope, or disappearing implementation team.

BUSINESS PROCESS AUTOMATION MEMBERSHIP
$5,000/ MONTH

Month to month, plus applicable taxes. One active milestone keeps the team focused on a complete workflow outcome.

Start your membership You own the code, data, infrastructure, and connected accounts.
WHAT IS INCLUDED
  • Direct access to the technical lead
  • Process discovery and workflow design
  • Buy, connect, build decisions
  • Custom software and integrations
  • One active milestone at a time
  • Unlimited prioritized request queue
  • Testing, deployment, and monitoring
  • Exception and operator tooling
  • Production maintenance and iteration
  • Private Trello board and async updates
THIRD-PARTY COSTS

Hosting, APIs, workflow tools, email, storage, monitoring, AI usage, and other services remain in your accounts and are paid directly by you. Devyou does not mark them up.

Questions before we automate

Clear answers about business process automation.

What to automate, what to buy, where people stay involved, and how the production system remains yours.

What are business process automation services?+

Business process automation services analyze, simplify, design, build, integrate, deploy, and improve software that moves work through a business process. A complete service covers triggers, rules, data, approvals, integrations, exception handling, operator tools, monitoring, and ongoing production support, not only isolated task automation.

What business processes should be automated?+

Strong candidates are repetitive, high-volume, time-sensitive, error-prone, or shared across several people and systems. The process should have a meaningful outcome, observable inputs and outputs, and rules stable enough to encode. We start with one valuable end-to-end workflow instead of trying to automate the whole company.

What business processes should not be automated?+

Do not automate a process simply because it exists. A low-volume process, an unclear decision, a workflow that changes every week, or a broken process with unnecessary steps should be simplified or left manual first. Human judgment should remain explicit where consequences are difficult to reverse or confidence is low.

How is business process automation different from workflow automation?+

Workflow automation coordinates the sequence of tasks, decisions, and handoffs in a workflow. Business process automation is broader and may connect several workflows, departments, data sources, and applications around a complete business outcome. The terms overlap, and Devyou can build either level.

How is business process automation different from RPA?+

Robotic process automation usually imitates a person's actions in an existing interface. It can help with narrow, repetitive tasks but is fragile when screens change. Business process automation typically works through application logic, APIs, data, queues, and operator controls, making it a better foundation for a strategic workflow.

Should we buy automation software or build custom software?+

Buy proven tools for commodity capabilities and common workflows. Build when the rules, data, customer experience, operating advantage, or system boundaries are specific to your business. Often the right answer is a combination: keep useful products, connect them through durable APIs, and own the custom workflow that makes them work together.

Can Devyou integrate the software we already use?+

Yes. We can connect systems through APIs, webhooks, scheduled imports, files, email, and controlled operator workflows. We first decide which system owns each record, how data changes propagate, how duplicates are prevented, and how operators recover when an outside service is unavailable.

What if one of our tools has no usable API?+

We evaluate exports, imports, email, browser automation, and replacement options. Interface automation can be a useful bridge, but it is usually more fragile than an API. We make that tradeoff visible and avoid making a brittle workaround the hidden foundation of a critical process.

Can an automated process include human approval?+

Yes. Human-in-the-loop design is often the responsible choice for exceptions, financial commitments, sensitive communications, low-confidence AI results, or high-impact decisions. The software should make the decision clear, present the right context, record the approval, and continue the workflow without losing state.

How do you handle integration and automation failures?+

We design for duplicate events, timeouts, rate limits, partial completion, changed data, and unavailable services. Depending on the workflow, that includes idempotency, queues, finite retries with backoff, reconciliation, alerts, audit history, exception queues, and safe manual recovery.

How much do business process automation services cost?+

Devyou costs $5,000 per month, plus applicable taxes and third-party services. The membership is month to month and includes one active milestone, a prioritized queue, direct senior access, design, development, integrations, testing, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and continued improvement.

Who owns the automation software and integrations?+

You do. Your company controls the source code, data, infrastructure, domains, analytics, and vendor accounts. You pay outside services directly, and Devyou does not mark them up. The team stays because it keeps creating value, not because the workflow is trapped in a proprietary platform.

Ready to improve the workflow?

Bring the domain knowledge.
We will build and operate the system.

Subscribe to reserve one of our limited client openings. Within one business day, you will receive a private Trello board and the first questions needed to understand the outcome, people, rules, systems, data, and most valuable process to automate.

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