Perkins SmartOps

Perkins SmartOps Independent AI and automation specialist. No software to sell you. Your accounts. Your data. Your keys.
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I help UK businesses find where AI actually earns its place, then build the system inside your own infrastructure.

The fourth tab on the dashboard is the working. Every rate behind the money figure is written out, job by job: the minut...
30/07/2026

The fourth tab on the dashboard is the working. Every rate behind the money figure is written out, job by job: the minutes we credit each run, where that number came from, and the hourly cost we apply to them.

Two things worth noticing. Every minute figure is deliberately set at the low end of what is honest, so the total is a floor rather than a best case. And the jobs worth nothing are named here with the reasoning, because a money figure nobody can check is decoration.

Still the sample business, an invented practice with invented figures.

Yesterday I shared the dashboard headline stats. The second tab in the dashboard has a job-by-job breakdown showing you ...
28/07/2026

Yesterday I shared the dashboard headline stats. The second tab in the dashboard has a job-by-job breakdown showing you which jobs are returning the most time and via how many runs. It also has a heat map of when the work happens. So if you have a reactive job rather than a scheduled job, you can see when the work is being done.

This is still the sample business, an invented practice with invented figures.

Yesterday I said every automation we build comes with its own live dashboard showing the hours it has saved. Here is wha...
27/07/2026

Yesterday I said every automation we build comes with its own live dashboard showing the hours it has saved. Here is what one actually looks like.

This is a sample. Invented firm, invented figures, six month timeline and built to be argued with rather than admired. An average of 1.4 hours a day back. That does not sound like much until you watch it add up to 241 hours and £7,140.

Lots of businesses are rightly interested in the return on investment from AI and automation. So every system we build c...
26/07/2026

Lots of businesses are rightly interested in the return on investment from AI and automation. So every system we build comes with a customised live dashboard, showing how many hours have been saved.

Twelve people. Different hours, different days, different breaks. Worked out by hand, every month.Her booking system alr...
23/07/2026

Twelve people. Different hours, different days, different breaks. Worked out by hand, every month.

Her booking system already knew who worked when, so we went and got it rather than retyping it.

Nice to see the work actually helping someone get their time back.

Always nice to get a review like this.Chloe was spending hours every month working out timesheets for 12 staff, all on d...
22/07/2026

Always nice to get a review like this.

Chloe was spending hours every month working out timesheets for 12 staff, all on different hours and different breaks. Now it just arrives, ready for payroll.

Getting rid of the boring admin is the whole job. Thank you Chloe.

26/06/2026

If you have read my previous posts and thought, I am probably leaving time on the table but I have no idea where, this is for you. It is called an AI Opportunity Snapshot. Two hours of my time, online, asking the questions. A short written map of your three biggest AI and automation opportunities a couple of days later, and if you go on to the full audit afterwards what you paid comes off it. Made for people who are using a bit of AI, suspect there is more, and do not want to wade through the hype to find it. No technical knowledge needed. You bring the business, I find the opportunities, and you walk away knowing exactly where to start. If that is you, send me a message and I will tell you how it works.

24/06/2026

Here is exactly what you walk away with from an AI Opportunity Snapshot. A short document, one or two pages, no padding. Three places in your business where AI and automation would give you the most back, written so anyone can follow them. For each one: what it actually is, roughly what it is worth in hours and money based on your own numbers, and the very first step to take. That is it. Not a wishlist, not a sales document, a map. If you then want the full audit afterwards, there is one, and what you paid for the Snapshot comes off it. But often, people just want to know where to start. This tells them. Message me if you would like one for your business.

22/06/2026

There is a worry that doing more with AI means big software, big spend, and big disruption. It usually does not. The harder part is simpler and quieter. It is genuinely hard to spot where AI and automation would help your own business when you are flat out running it, and most of us are too close to our own work to see it. That is not a technical problem. It is a question of someone asking the right things about how your work actually flows, then telling you, in plain English, where the time is hiding. The tech is the easy bit once you know where to point it.

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