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, quoted at a fixed price, live in weeks rather than quarters.

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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

Two hours walking through your actual last week, task by task, with honest numbers on what each one eats. Two days later you get a document: where the hours went, everything worth automating ranked by hours returned, one recommendation with a fixed price and a date, and a short list of things to leave alone. It costs $450. 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
Pricing

Advice by the hour. Everything else at a fixed price.

Consultation is $225 an hour, because that is a person's time and it should be sold as such. Build work is never billed by the hour. You get one number and a date, agreed before anyone starts, and it holds.

Start here

Time Audit

$450two hours
Billed at the $225 consultation rate.
  • 90 minutes mapping your real week
  • A written map of where the hours go
  • Every candidate ranked by hours returned
  • One recommendation, fixed price, real date
  • What to leave alone, and why
  • Credited in full against any build
One thing, fixed fast

Quick Win

$1,500fixed
Live in about a week.
  • One workflow, built and running
  • Wired into the tools you already use
  • A round of revisions after your review
  • Handoff walkthrough and runbook
  • 30 days of fixes included
A whole process

Core Build

$4,500fixed
Two to three weeks.
  • Three to four connected workflows
  • The process mapped end to end
  • Up to four integrations
  • Staff training session
  • 60 days of fixes included
Instead of a hire

Operator

$9,500fixed
Four to six weeks.
  • A department's worth of systems
  • Internal assistant on your own documents
  • Up to eight integrations
  • Two training sessions and a playbook
  • 90 days of fixes included

Afterward, only if you want it. Tending is $400 a month and covers monitoring, breakage, and small changes. Continuous is $2,000 a month and adds a new automation every month plus a working session. Ad hoc advice stays at $225 an hour. None of it is bundled into a build without you asking, and you can stop any of it with a month's notice.

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

What people ask before they book.

What does this cost?
The first step is a $450 Time Audit, which is two hours and is credited against whatever you build afterward. Builds are quoted as a fixed fee: $1,500 for one workflow, $4,500 for a full process, $9,500 for a department's worth of systems. Consultation on its own is $225 an hour.
Why is the first meeting paid?
A free consultation is worth what it costs. The audit is two hours of real work and it produces a document you can act on whether or not you hire us. Charging for it means the time gets spent on your business instead of on a pitch.
How fast is something actually running?
A Quick Win is usually live about a week after the deposit clears. A full process takes two to three weeks. Nothing here is a six-month transformation program, and you should be suspicious of anyone selling you one.
What if the audit says I should not bother?
Then it says that and you keep your money. It happens, and it is the reason the audit is a paid product instead of a sales call 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 audit includes a written list of 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 audit. 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.

Two hours, $450, credited against anything you build afterward. You leave with a document worth keeping even if you never hire us again.