shortdesk.IO

Less admin.
More business.

We help growing businesses build automation with clear rules and custom business knowledge behind it.

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  • How much of your team's week is repeated work a machine could be doing?

  • Could you show someone how a job actually moves through your business, end to end?

  • Is AI used consistently and securely across the team, or just wherever somebody tried it?

Most businesses can’t answer all three. Our audit gives you the answers, and a plan.

See what the audit covers
68%of small businesses use AI regularly
77%have no written AI policy
15–20%qualify as strategic adopters

The gap between using AI and getting value from it is structure. We build the automation, and the structure that holds it up.

How we do it.

Automations are the work. The audit says which ones are worth building, and Foundations is what keeps them reliable once they are running. Start wherever you already are.

  1. 01ASSESS

    The audit

    Seven days. We map your processes, where the friction actually is and what is worth automating, plus where AI fits on top, then hand you a 30/60/90 roadmap.

    £200 of the audit fee credits toward any follow-on engagement (an automation build, a retainer, or AI Foundations) booked within 30 days.

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  2. 02IMPLEMENT

    AI Foundations

    Optional, and the reason automations built on top keep working. A fixed-fee engagement, typically 6 to 8 weeks: an AI governance framework your leadership signs, a company knowledge base that makes every AI tool you use smarter, and a working pilot in one department, tested by your own team on real work.

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  3. 03AUTOMATE

    Automations

    The work itself. Custom builds shaped around your systems and processes, plus pre-built ones you can start with today, so the repetitive work happens without a person pushing it along.

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What we build

One brain, and everything plugged into it.

The automation is what you are buying. It keeps working because of what sits under it: agreed rules, and one place your business context actually lives.

  1. Underneath

    Organisation-wide AI governance

    One framework, agreed at leadership level, covering how AI is used across the business: acceptable use, data handling, human review, accountability. It is what lets automation touch real work safely, and it means you can say yes to new tools without starting the argument again.

  2. Then

    A company knowledge base: your AI brain

    Your brand, products, policies, processes and operating context, structured in one place rather than scattered across drives and heads. Every automation you run draws on it, so the decisions they make are your company's rather than a generic guess.

  3. The point

    AI-driven automation on top

    The work itself, running without a person pushing it along. Custom automations shaped around how your business actually runs, grounded in the two layers below so they keep working as the business changes rather than drifting a month after launch.

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In practice

A business already using AI, with nothing holding it together.

AI in use across several teams, to varying extents. No governance, no consistency, no shared structure. The audit found why it wasn’t paying off.

Six weeks later

  • A governance framework built and now with leadership for sign off.
  • A company knowledge base every team's AI now draws on.
  • An AI assistant piloted by one department on real work.
Start with the audit

Start with the audit.

£495, one-off. Seven days from kickoff to roadmap.

£200 of the audit fee credits toward any follow-on engagement (an automation build, a retainer, or AI Foundations) booked within 30 days.

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