Practitioner-led automation for owner-operators · Australia

I automate my job in public. Then I automate yours.

Augma finds the process costing you the most hours, puts a number on what automating it returns, installs it, and checks that number ninety days later.


Everyone has tried AI. Fourteen per cent made it stick.

43%

of Australian small businesses have adopted AI to some degree.

14%

have integrated it into how the business actually runs.

National AI Centre and COSBOA research, September 2026.

The twenty-nine point gap between trying and embedding is the whole business. Not because the tools are bad — because nobody stays long enough to fit them to the way your work actually happens, and nobody measures whether it worked.

What we do

Four ways to work together.

Every one produces a number. The number is the point.

AI Productivity Audit

$950

Ninety minutes with the owner, then a written value case. Where your week goes, every candidate process ranked, and what the top one would return.

The audit →

Process Automation Sprint

from $4,500

One process, installed properly. Built, tested against your last twenty examples, documented, and handed over.

How a sprint works →

Value Assurance

$750 / month

The ninety-day check, made permanent. Re-measured monthly, with what has drifted fixed. Capped at six clients.

The retainer →

Guides & the library

$199 · $29/mo

The same processes written so you can run them yourself. Released once a process has been solved three times.

Coming later →

Prices in AUD, excluding GST. The sprint is quoted after the audit, because quoting it before would be guessing.

Proof

Client zero is this business.

Every automation I sell, I run here first — on my own admin, in public, with a demanding corporate role and about ten hours a week to give this.

That is not a marketing angle. It is the only credential an owner-operator should accept from someone selling them a system.

The log records what the automation does, what it replaced, how many hours it returned, and what broke. Published whether or not it flatters me — a build log with no failures in it is not believable, and readers know.

Method

Four steps. The fourth is the one nobody does.

01

Measure what it costs today

Hours, frequency, rework, and who does it. Sampled rather than estimated, because self-reported hours are the largest single source of fake ROI in this industry.

02

Put a number on the change

A model of what the automation costs to own and what it returns, in your numbers, with a payback period and a sensitivity table. You keep the model either way.

03

Install one process properly

One, tested against your last twenty examples, documented, and handed over with the procedure written down. Not a strategy deck.

04

Check the number at ninety days

We re-measure and compare actual against modelled, including when it is worse. That check is the entire difference between this and everyone else.

Fit

Who this is for, and who it isn't.

Built for

  • Owner-operators, roughly one to twenty people, where the owner is also the person doing the delivery
  • Bookkeeping and accounting practices first; other professional services, health and financial practices too
  • Someone who can point at the process that eats their week, and is tired of it

Not for

  • Enterprises and funded scale-ups with an operations team — you want procurement, not help
  • Anyone wanting a strategy document that ends in a document
  • Businesses where the owner does not personally feel the pain. It will take six months and it will die

Start with the audit.

Ninety minutes, a written value case in your own numbers, and a recommendation you can act on whether or not you ever hire me.