Business automation · Winnipeg, Manitoba

Your hours, handed back.

We automate the repetitive work that turned you into your own admin department. Built into the software you already run, on a flat monthly agreed before anything starts, for less than the hire you would make to get the same hours back.

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What it takes to find out where your week goes and what it would cost to get some of it back.

Automation consulting for Winnipeg owner-operators

Growth stopped being a demand problem a while ago. It is a problem of how many hours you personally have, and you ran out of those.

You already know which parts of the week are a waste. Nobody has ever built you a way out of them.

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Cameron NostedtHours Back, a Nostedt venture · Winnipeg, MB
The method

Map it, price it, build it, hand you the keys.

01

Map it before you buy anything

An hour on a call walking through your actual last week, task by task, with honest numbers on what each one eats. Afterward you get it in writing: where the hours went, everything worth automating ranked by hours returned, one recommendation with a flat monthly price on it, and a short list of things to leave alone. Calls are $225 an hour, this one included. Free consultations produce free advice.

02

A price, not a meter

Build work is quoted as one number against a scope you approve first. It does not move if the job turns out to be harder than expected, and there is no hourly clock running in the background. You will not open an invoice from us and find a surprise in it.

03

Built into the software you already pay for

Jane, Jobber, QuickBooks, Clio, your booking page, your inbox, your phone. A good build makes the day quieter. It does not hand your front desk another login to remember. You review it, we revise it, then it goes live.

04

You get the keys

A walkthrough, a written runbook, and ownership of everything built for you. Nothing is held hostage, and no monthly fee is required to keep your own system running. If you want us watching it afterward that is a separate arrangement you can start or stop whenever.

Services

What we automate

01 / first contact

Enquiries answered in a minute, at 2 AM

Every new enquiry gets a reply in your voice, qualified against the questions you already ask, and booked. Anything the system should not touch goes to a person with the context attached.

02 / intake

Nobody assembles a package by hand

Forms sent, chased when they go quiet, collected, filed, and written into your system while your front desk does something that matters more.

03 / follow-up

The list you meant to get to

No-shows, quiet quotes, lapsed clients, unpaid invoices. Worked through on a schedule instead of whenever you happen to remember.

04 / documents

You stop starting from blank

Quotes, proposals, summaries, and reports drafted out of information you already have. Your job becomes reviewing and sending.

05 / knowledge

An assistant that knows your business

Trained on your own procedures and files, so staff stop interrupting you to ask something that was written down two years ago.

06 / reporting

One Monday email instead of an afternoon

What came in, what closed, what stalled, what needs you. Built overnight, waiting when you sit down.

Where it lands hardest

Clinics and practices

Dental, physio, chiro, counselling. The front desk is usually running a paper process at digital speed and losing patients in the gap.

  • New patient enquiry answered and booked before they call the next clinic
  • Intake and consent packages sent, chased, and filed automatically
  • Recall and reactivation lists worked every week without anyone remembering
  • No-show follow-up that fills the hole in the same day

Trades and contractors

The quote written at 9 PM after a full day on site is the quote that loses to whoever sent theirs at noon.

  • Quote drafted from the enquiry, ready for you to price and send
  • Follow-up on every quote that goes quiet, three touches, then stop
  • Job photos pulled off phones and filed against the right job
  • Invoice chasing that happens without an awkward phone call

Professional services

Law, accounting, bookkeeping, brokerage. Most of the week is intake, document handling, and telling clients where things stand.

  • Client onboarding packages assembled and tracked to completion
  • Document intake sorted, named, and filed where it belongs
  • Status updates drafted from the file instead of from memory
  • Deadline and renewal reminders that never depend on a person
Receipts

Not a slide deck. Things that are running right now.

Live

An AI assistant engine, multi-tenant

Built from scratch and running in production: separate assistants trained on separate businesses, each answering from that company's own documents, all on one platform we operate.

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Live

A website platform with paying tenants

An editor, a renderer, hosting, and a client login, built end to end. Real client sites run on it today, with their owners editing their own pages.

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Client work

A Winnipeg construction company

Site rebuilt, an assistant answering enquiries on it, and their Google Business Profile cleaned up and kept current. Ongoing work, not a one-off project.

Client work

A Manitoba auto shop

Moved off a template platform onto something they own, repositioned around the work that actually pays, with quote requests landing in one inbox instead of three.

Unattended

Automations that run while nobody watches

Scheduled jobs that wake up on their own, check the thing they were built to check, and email a person only when there is something worth knowing.

The group

Five businesses under one roof

Software, advertising, websites, autonomous agents, and this. All of it built and operated by the same person you would be hiring.

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If the first call is not worth what you paid, you get it back.

Say so before we hang up and the $225 is refunded, no argument and no awkwardness. That offer is easy to make because the hour is spent on your business rather than on a pitch, and almost nobody who has sat through one has asked for it back.

Pricing

You are not buying software. You are buying your week back.

Three levels, one monthly price, no build fee bolted on the front. The first month is when the most gets built, and it keeps getting built every month after, because a business that stops changing is one that stopped growing. Everything is quoted as a flat monthly, never as an hourly meter, so you know the number before anything starts. Three month minimum, then month to month with 30 days notice.

Instead of a part-time admin

Foundation

$3,000per month
One department off your plate.
  • Two workflows live in the first month
  • A new automation every month after that
  • Built into the software you already pay for
  • Enquiries answered and booked around the clock
  • Intake sent, chased, collected and filed
  • Monitored, fixed, and adjusted as you change
  • A written runbook, and you own all of it
Instead of a coordinator

Operator

$5,000per month
The systems a manager would run.
  • Everything in Foundation
  • A full process automated end to end, not one task
  • Two new automations every month
  • Follow-up worked on a schedule: no-shows, quiet quotes, unpaid invoices
  • Quotes, proposals and reports drafted for you to send
  • An internal assistant trained on your own documents
  • A working session every month, not a status email
Instead of an ops manager

Command

$7,000per month
The whole company, not one department.
  • Everything in Operator
  • Systems across every department, not just the front desk
  • Whatever needs building that month, prioritised with you
  • Your numbers assembled and waiting Monday morning
  • Staff trained, with a playbook they can run without us
  • Priority response when something breaks
  • A quarterly sit-down on where the next year goes

What it costs to do this with people instead.

The honest comparison is not against software. It is against the hire you would make to get the same hours back, once you count CPP, EI, vacation, WCB and the desk they sit at. These are market figures for Manitoba, not a promise about your business.

The hireRoughly, all inThis insteadDifference a year
Part-time admin, 30 hours$3,400 a month$3,000 a monthYou keep $4,800
Full-time coordinator$6,200 a month$5,000 a monthYou keep $14,400
Operations manager$8,700 a month$7,000 a monthYou keep $20,400

A hire also takes six weeks to find, needs managing, books holidays, and leaves. A system does the same work at 2am on a Sunday and does not resign. The point is not that people are worse. It is that the work we take is the work nobody should be doing by hand in the first place.

Where the first call fits. Consultation is $225 an hour, including the first one, and it stays that way whether or not you ever hire us. That hour maps where your week actually goes and ranks what is worth automating. If you say at the end that it was not worth the money, it is refunded. Nothing about the monthly is charged until you have that map and agree to a number.

What it is for

Nobody opened a business to answer the same email.

The hours come back whether you want them or not. What matters is what they turn into, because an owner who takes ten hours off the week and fills all ten with more admin has bought nothing. Here is what the owners we build for do with them.

01

The work you are actually good at

You did not become the best in your trade by processing intake forms. The hours that come back are the ones you can spend on the jobs, the quotes worth winning, and the clients who need you rather than your admin.

02

Growth that is not another 60 hour week

Most owner-operators cannot grow because growth means more admin, and there is no room left. Take the admin out of the equation and the next ten jobs cost you nothing you do not already have.

03

Dinner. Actual dinner.

The Sunday night inbox pass, the quotes written after the kids are down, the phone that goes off at the table. Those are the first hours a system takes, because they are the ones nobody should have been working anyway.

04

A business that runs without you in it

The work gets written down, built once, and it keeps running. That is also what makes a company worth buying one day, because a business that only functions when the owner is in the room is a job with extra steps.

Half your week is work only because nobody built the system.
Questions

What people ask before they book.

What does this cost?
Time on a call is $225 an hour, and that includes the first one. Most first calls run an hour. After that it is a flat monthly: $3,000 for one department automated, $5,000 for a full process with an internal assistant and a monthly working session, $7,000 for systems across the whole company. There is no separate build fee. Three month minimum, then month to month with 30 days notice. The right comparison is not other software, it is the hire you would make to get the same hours back, which costs more once you count CPP, EI, vacation and WCB.
Why is the first call paid?
A free consultation is worth what it costs. An hour on the phone with someone who has done this before is worth $225, and paying for it means the hour gets spent on your business instead of on a pitch. You get a written summary of what we found either way.
How does the work actually start?
A call, then a written scope with a flat monthly price and what the first month builds. If you approve it, the first month starts the work. You review what gets built, we revise it, then it goes live and you get the runbook. No discovery phase that bills for six weeks before anything exists.
What if you tell me not to bother?
Then that is what you hear, and you keep your money. It happens, and it is the reason the call is paid instead of being a sales pitch in a costume.
Do I have to change the software I already use?
Almost never. The work gets built into what you already run, whether that is Jane, Jobber, QuickBooks, Clio, your booking page, or your inbox. If something genuinely has to be replaced we will tell you before you spend anything.
Will this replace my staff?
That is rarely what an owner actually wants once they think it through. The usual result is that whoever was drowning in paperwork spends that time with customers instead. If you do want to reduce headcount, say so early and we will be straight about whether it is realistic.
What happens when the system gets something wrong?
Every build puts a person in the loop wherever a mistake would be expensive. Clinical, legal, financial, and relationship-sensitive decisions route to a human by design, and the write-up after the call names what should stay that way.
Who owns what you build, and what happens to my data?
You own all of it on final payment, including a written runbook so your team can run it without us. Your data is never sold, never shared outside the engagement, and never used to train a model. If you handle health information, tell us before we start so the handling is scoped properly rather than patched on later.
Do you only work with businesses in Winnipeg?
Winnipeg and Manitoba first, because sitting in the room matters for the first conversation. Remote work across Canada is fine once the process is understood. Related work lives at Studio Nostedt, Nostedt Ads, and Nostedt Agents.

Find out where the week actually goes.

An hour on the phone at $225, and you get the map in writing afterward. Worth keeping even if you never hire us for anything else.