Service 05

Automation & Workflow Systems

Working systems for the repetitive parts of studio operations — enquiries, outreach, handovers and admin.

Overview

Design, fit-out, furniture and property teams lose a surprising amount of time to coordination rather than to work: the same enquiry details typed into three places, follow-ups tracked from memory, project folders rebuilt by hand, reports assembled at the end of every month. Automation & Workflow Systems addresses that layer. We look at how the work is actually done now, identify the steps that repeat without judgement being applied, and build systems that carry the information across instead.

This is capability we run on our own operation before we offer it to anyone else — the enquiry routing, research workbooks, outreach tracking and production handovers behind XIYÀTO's other services are built the same way. We hold no client automation engagement released as published case-study material, and we would rather say that plainly than imply otherwise. Systems are built inside the tools you already use, documented in ordinary language, and handed over with the rules written down.

The work

Produced under this service.

Capabilities

What the service covers.

Enquiry and intake

The first hour after an enquiry arrives is where most manual handling happens. It is usually the first thing worth automating.

Web and email enquiries routed into a single logged record
Automatic acknowledgement with a stated response time
Qualification questions captured at first contact
Source, date, owner and status recorded per enquiry
Reminder rules for enquiries left unanswered past an agreed threshold
Handover of the enquiry record into your project or sales tracker

Outreach and follow-up

Sequenced, logged and rule-bound — built so a person can see exactly what was sent, to whom and when.

Follow-up sequences with stop-on-reply rules
Merge fields drawn from a structured prospect workbook
Reply logging and status updates written back to the record
Suppression and do-not-contact handling
Sending schedules and daily volume limits
Manual-send checklists where automated sending is not appropriate
Reporting views by stage: contacted, replied, dormant, closed

Project and production workflow

The administrative spine around delivery work — folders, revisions, checkpoints and handover.

Standard folder and file-naming structures created per project
Drawing, asset and revision logging
Task templates generated when a project stage opens
Approval and sign-off checkpoints with recorded dates
Notifications when a stage is marked complete
Handover packs assembled against a defined checklist
Status views drawn from the underlying records rather than typed by hand

Data, documents and admin

Repetitive document and spreadsheet work, moved off people and onto rules.

Consolidation of records held across multiple sheets and sources
Deduplication and record-cleaning rules with a backup of anything removed
Validation rules that prevent broken records at the point of entry
Quotation, proposal and document generation from templates
Recurring report assembly on a fixed schedule
Scheduled exports and backups of working data

AI-assisted steps

Used where it genuinely saves time, and always with a person between the system and the client.

First-pass reply drafting held for human review before sending
Summarising long enquiry or project threads into a record note
Classifying and tagging incoming enquiries and leads
Extracting structured fields from unstructured documents
Drafting content outlines and captions from an agreed brief
Review checkpoints placed before anything client-facing leaves the system

Process

How the work runs.

01
Map the current process
We work through how the task is done today — the tools in use, the steps that repeat, and the points where information is re-entered or chased. Nothing is automated before it is understood.
02
Agree the rules
Triggers, decision rules, exception handling and the points where a person must stay in the loop are written down and agreed in advance, so the system's behaviour is defined rather than discovered.
03
Build and test
The system is built inside your existing tools and run against real cases in a test state until the ordinary path and the exceptions both behave correctly.
04
Handover
You receive the working system, written documentation and a walkthrough for the people who will operate it, along with a plain list of what deliberately remains manual.

Deliverables

What you receive.

A working system built inside the tools your team already uses
Written documentation of triggers, rules and exception handling
A process map showing the workflow before and after
Templates, forms and message structures used by the system
A walkthrough for the people who will run it day to day
A stated list of what remains manual, and the reason it does

Scope of responsibility

This service is offered as capability. We hold no client automation engagement released as published case-study material, and we do not present the systems described here as delivered project references. Systems are built inside tools you already hold accounts for; we do not take on IT administration, data-security certification, regulatory compliance sign-off or ongoing managed support unless that is separately agreed in writing. Where a step involves judgement, client communication or a commercial decision, we keep a person in the loop by design.

Automation & Workflow

Have something that needs producing?

Send the brief and whatever material exists. We will confirm what is workable and propose a defined scope.

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