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AI Workflow Automation

Automate the work, not the demo.

We design and deploy AI workflows that complete real operational tasks — with observability, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and graceful failure modes. Not Zapier-with-an-LLM.

LangGraph · Temporal · Inngest · n8n · Custom · Measurable ROI per workflow

Most of your team's work isn't the work.

Every operations leader has the same complaint: their team spends 30–60% of every week on tasks that could be automated, should be automated, and aren't — because the workflow is too custom for Zapier and too 'in-between' to make the engineering roadmap.

That's the automation tax. It compounds, it scales with headcount, and it's the cheapest thing to fix if you fix it properly.

Workflows we've shipped, by department.

Sales & RevOps

Lead enrichment & routing

Inbound enrichment, outbound research, CRM hygiene, meeting-prep briefs.

Customer support

Triage & deflection

Tier-1 resolution, ticket routing, history summarization, after-hours voice agents.

Operations

Data shuffling, gone

ETL between SaaS tools, invoice processing, internal knowledge Q&A, onboarding.

Finance

Reconciliation & reporting

Bank-to-ledger reconciliation, expense categorization, recurring reports with anomaly detection.

Marketing

Content & attribution

Brief generation, audience research, cross-channel attribution with explanations.

Reliability

Built to be trusted

Retries, circuit breakers, confidence thresholds, audit logs, dashboards your ops lead can read.

Humans in the loop, by design.

“Fully autonomous” is rarely the goal. The right question is where a human's judgment justifies their cost.

High stakesLow stakes
High reversibilityMandatory human approval (send email, issue refund)Auto with notification (tag a ticket, update CRM)
Low reversibilityBlock + escalate (delete record, cancel subscription)Auto + audit log (forecast, run a report, summarize)

What automation should cost — and return.

A real worked example: customer-support tier-1 deflection.

4,200 tier-1 tickets/month. 30% fully auto-resolved, 60% pre-summarized for a human. Average handle time 11 min → 6 min. That's ~290 FTE-equivalent hours saved per month — about 3,480 hours/year.

At a $42 loaded cost per FTE hour, that's ~$146,160 saved annually. Build cost ~$58,000 one-time, plus ~$1,800/mo operations. Net 12-month return: ~$66,560. Payback: ~6 months. Most of our workflows pay back in 3–9 months.

How automation projects engage with us.

Process Audit & Roadmap
1–2 weeks
from $16,000
  • Process inventory + ROI sizing
  • Tool/stack recommendation
  • Prioritized 12-month roadmap
Start an Audit
Workflow Build
4–12 weeks
from $42,000
  • Process design + golden dataset
  • Orchestration + AI-decision steps + evals
  • Integrations, dashboards, shadow rollout
Start a Build
Automation Operations
monthly
from $8,500/mo
  • Eval-set expansion + threshold tuning
  • Model migrations + new workflows
  • On-call + monthly ROI reports
Discuss Operations

Common questions.

What's a good first workflow to automate?
The one costing the most predictable hours per week with the lowest-stakes decision surface — usually ticket triage, lead routing, expense categorization, or report generation.
Will this replace my team?
Almost never. The AI absorbs the boring 80% so your team does the 20% that needs judgment. Capacity expands; headcount stays.
How do you measure ROI?
Hours saved, errors prevented, and SLA improvements. We baseline before build, measure after, and report monthly during the Operations retainer.
What integrates with our stack?
Almost anything with an API: Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Slack, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Stripe, custom internal systems.
Is this different from Zapier?
Yes. Zapier handles trigger-action automations. Anything with state, branching, LLM decisions, durability, or evals needs a real orchestration platform like LangGraph or Temporal.
How is this different from agents?
Agents are a primitive — a single autonomous unit. Workflows are the system around them — multiple steps, multiple decisions, multiple humans. Most workflows include agents as steps.

Tell us where the hours are going.

A 30-minute call. Bring the process that's costing you the most time. We'll size what automating it actually looks like — and tell you honestly if the ROI is there.