Agentic AI automation for small business · any industry

Automate the work that's eating your team's hours.

I'm an automation engineer. I find the repetitive, manual work draining your business — the re-keying, chasing, reporting, triage — and build agentic AI systems that do it for you. The same enterprise-grade engineering I run for a major US bank, brought down to your size. Often hundreds of hours a year, back. It starts with a measurement, not a guess.

Enterprise-grade, not a no-code bot · secure by default · fixed-scope · you own what I build.

Claude agentsOrchestrator + subagentsData pipelines MCP integrationsPython / TS

A process, automated

example

Find the gap → build the system → reclaim the hours.

Before
4 tools, re-keyed & reconciled by hand~12 hrs/week of manual work
After
One agentic pipeline · human approves~20 min/week reviewed
≈ 600 hours/year reclaimed · secure · approval-gated
Enterprise-grade engineering, not no-code
Production agentic AI at a major US bank·Orchestrator + subagents·Real data pipelines·Security-grade
What we do

Measure the work. Build the agents. Hand back the hours.

NullDrift is an automation-engineering practice. We don't guess what to automate — we measure it, then build the agentic systems that take it off your team's plate, with bank-grade engineering.

1 · Measure

A privacy-first audit agent runs for a week and returns a ranked Automation Opportunity Report — your real workflows, by recoverable hours. The method →

2 · Build

We build the agentic systems — pipelines, triage, document processing, integrations — that do the top workflows, with a human in the loop. What we build →

3 · Own

Security by default, documented, and handed over. You own what we build — no lock-in, no per-task toll forever. Why it's different →

The hidden cost

Your team is doing work a system should do.

Every week, hours vanish into copy-paste, re-keying between tools, chasing documents, building the same report, and triaging the same inbox. It's invisible on the P&L — until you add it up. Most "AI" pitched to small businesses is a no-code bot that breaks on the first real edge case. The messy, multi-step, judgment-heavy work needs an engineer, not a template.

100sof hours/year lost to manual busywork
Anyindustry — if it's repetitive, it's automatable
1engineer who owns it end to end
0brittle no-code duct tape
The method

I don't guess what to automate. I measure it.

A lightweight, privacy-first audit agent runs for a week on your team's machines and finds the repetitive workflows costing you the most — ranked by the hours each one eats. The audit is how we find the work; building the automation agents is the service.

1 · Install, with consent

A small agent goes on each machine — unsigned, auditable, removed with one command. Everyone sees the privacy manifest before it runs. Opt-in, never covert.

2 · The real picture, kept local

Which apps and tabs, how long, in what sequence, which files move where — with the actual window and tab names, so the report is decision-grade. It all stays on the device. Never keystrokes, screens, content, passwords, or full URLs — enforced in code, not promised.

3 · Ranked report

The week rolls up on-device into an Automation Opportunity Report: your real workflows, ranked by recoverable hours and dollars. What to automate first, with evidence.

4 · I build the agents

That ranked list becomes the build plan: agentic systems that take the top workflows off your team's plate — the actual service, measured against your own baseline.

Why it's different

Enterprise-grade engineering, at your size.

I build production agentic AI for a major US bank — where systems can't leak data, can't go rogue, and can't break silently. Most automation sold to small businesses is a no-code bot a marketer wired together. I bring the real thing: architecture that holds up, security that's designed in, and work you actually own.

See the security posture

Built like a bank builds

Real architecture — orchestrators, subagents, observability, error handling. It works on the messy edge cases, not just the demo.

Secure by default

Least-privilege access, no data egress, guardrails so the AI escalates instead of improvising. Your data stays yours.

You own it

Fixed-scope builds, documented and handed over. No lock-in to a platform you can't leave, no per-task toll forever.

How it works

From "this eats my week" to automated, in four steps.

Audit

We map your most repetitive workflows and put a number on the hours (and dollars) they're costing. Free.

Architect

I design the system — what the agents do, where they stop for a human, how your data stays secure. Fixed scope, fixed price.

Build

I build it on your existing tools and run it in approval mode first, so nothing acts unreviewed until you trust it.

You own it

Documented and handed over, with the hours measured against your baseline. Optional retainer to extend and maintain.

Privacy & trust

Telemetry a security engineer would put on his own machine.

The audit agent is built privacy-first because that's the only version of this worth trusting: it reads the work — app and tab names, durations, file moves — and keeps it on the device, aggregating there, with exactly one gated path off the box and people pseudonymized throughout. It finds workflows to automate; it is not employee monitoring. (That distinction is my background — I build this kind of telemetry for a major US bank.) Prefer a stricter posture? A one-flag metadata-only mode drops every title and keeps just categories.

Collects (stays on the device)

· App + the real window/tab title + activity category
· Active duration & idle time
· Process name + start/stop (never arguments)
· File action + name + type + size bucket + location category
· In-browser SaaS category + the real tab title

Never collects (any mode)

· Keystrokes, screenshots, clipboard
· File or message content
· Passwords, secrets, tokens
· Full URLs (query strings) or hostnames
· Full file paths
· Command-line arguments · real identity (pseudonymized)

Opt-in + visible manifestLocal-first, aggregates on-deviceOne gated egress pointMetadata-only mode availableDelete on request
See the full privacy architecture

Automation Opportunity Report

1 week

Ranked by recoverable hours — what to automate first.

#1
QuickBooks ↔ Excel data transfer208 switches/wk · 85% automatable · ~192 hrs/yr back
#2
Recurring report assembly4.1 hrs/wk · 75% automatable · ~149 hrs/yr back
#3
Invoice & document processing3.1 hrs/wk · 80% automatable · ~120 hrs/yr back
≈ 571 hours/year recoverable · local-first · you own the report
Man-Hours Calculator

What is one manual process costing you?

Pick any repetitive task your team does. Move the sliders — this is what it costs you a year, and what automating it gives back.

Recoverable / year
$291,200
Hours/year spent now12,480
Cost/year now$436,800
Hours/year reclaimed9,984
Hours back to your team
9,984 hrs/yr
Spent on the work that actually grows the business.
Get your real number — free audit
A recent build

Example: a speed-to-lead system for a clinic

One automation among many — to make it concrete. Pick a lead and watch the agentic system capture, qualify, and book it, with the guardrails escalating anything sensitive to a human.

Need leads answered in 60 seconds specifically? That's a productized version — see the full range of what I build →

Questions

What owners ask first

What kinds of businesses do you work with?

Any industry. If your team does something repetitive and data-heavy — clinics, professional services, e-commerce ops, logistics, field services, agencies — it's a candidate. The audit tells us if it's worth automating.

How is this different from a no-code bot or a Zapier consultant?

I'm an engineer who builds production agentic AI for a major US bank. Real systems handle the messy, multi-step, judgment-heavy work that breaks no-code tools — with security, error handling, and architecture designed in. Different category.

Is my data safe?

Security is the default, not an add-on: least-privilege access, no data egress, and guardrails so the AI escalates to a human instead of improvising. You get a written security posture brief.

How do you price it?

Fixed-scope per build, set after the audit so you know the price and the payback up front. Optional monthly retainer to extend and maintain. You own what I build — no per-task toll forever.

What's the free automation audit?

Tell me your most repetitive task. I'll map it, put a number on the hours and dollars it's costing, and tell you honestly whether it's worth automating. No obligation.

Get your free automation audit

Tell me your most repetitive task. I'll put a number on the hours it's costing and whether it's worth automating.

Thanks — your audit request is queued. I'll be in touch within one business day.

No spam. No data requested here beyond the basics.