runtime · live · automating 27 jobs v1.0.0 · 2026-Q2

Your output scales.
Your headcount doesn't.

3node maps your workflow, builds the automation, and runs it 24/7 — the repetitive, draining work becomes ours, so your team finally spends its day on the problems that actually need a person.

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runtime active node clusters · 1 jobs · 27 avg. p50 · 240ms deploy · 14h ago
[ 02 ][ 01 ] The problem 02_01

Your team is doing work
a machine should be doing.

The average mid-size company loses 12,400 hours/year to manual, repeatable, screen-based work — invoice routing, reconciliations, status updates, report generation, ticket triage.

Work that's beneath your people, but somehow on their plates. The cost isn't just hours; it's morale, error rates, and the strategic projects that never get started because everyone is firefighting an inbox.

[ 03 / 5 PANELS ] What we automate 01 / 05
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IT Ops

Incident, deploy, on-call —
handled before a human reads the page.

We sit between your monitoring stack, ticketing, and chat. Most L1 noise gets resolved or routed without human hands. The rest reaches your engineers with full context attached.

  • [01]Auto-triage 60–80% of L1 tickets in Jira/Zendesk~480 hr/yr
  • [02]Datadog → PagerDuty enrichment with runbook links~190 hr/yr
  • [03]Nightly deploy windows + smoke-test gating~210 hr/yr
  • [04]SOC 2 evidence collection & ticket export~320 hr/yr
FLOW · IT-OPS-01 live
MONITORING Datadog · alert TICKETS Jira / Zendesk PIPELINE Deploy · gate 3NODE triage + enrichrunbook match AUTO Resolved · 72% ESCALATE PagerDuty · L2 SOC 2 Evidence log live · 14:02:38 resolved — no human paged
02
Back-office

Paperwork that follows people around —
closed in a loop.

Invoices, expenses, vendor onboarding, payroll variances. Whatever involves a spreadsheet, an inbox, and a "did anyone approve this?" chain — we collapse it into a deterministic flow.

  • [01]Invoice intake → ERP, with PO matching~640 hr/yr
  • [02]Expense reports + receipt OCR + policy~410 hr/yr
  • [03]Vendor onboarding (W-9, banking, compliance)~280 hr/yr
  • [04]Month-end close: prep, recs, journal entries~520 hr/yr
FLOW · BACKOFFICE-02 live
INBOX invoice.pdf EXPENSES receipt · OCR VENDOR W-9 · intake 3NODE extract + classifyPO match · policy NETSUITE Post AP entry SLACK Notify approver ARCHIVE Retain · 7 yr live · 917 processed today · 8 in review
03
Customer flow

The path from "first touch" to "active" —
without the dropped baton.

CRM, support, billing, and product data act like one organism instead of three siloed teams. Lead → qualified → onboarded → upsold, with audit trails the moment the data lands.

  • [01]Lead enrichment + scoring → SDR queue~210 hr/yr
  • [02]Self-serve onboarding with milestone nudges~340 hr/yr
  • [03]Support routing by intent + customer tier~280 hr/yr
  • [04]Renewal & QBR pack auto-generation~190 hr/yr
FLOW · CUST-03 live
CUSTOMER STATE MACHINE deterministic transitions · audited writes INBOUND Lead 3NODE score + enrich → SDR Qualified ONBOARDED Active UNQUALIFIED Nurture queue live · every transition logged on write
04
Data & reporting

Numbers that arrive on schedule —
and explain themselves.

ETL into your warehouse, anomaly detection across critical tables, and executive digests written in English. Your morning report is in your inbox before you finish coffee.

  • [01]Multi-source ETL → warehouse, with backfill~420 hr/yr
  • [02]Anomaly detection on revenue / pipeline / churn~180 hr/yr
  • [03]Weekly executive digest (LLM with guardrails)~120 hr/yr
  • [04]Board pack: charts, narrative, footnotes~80 hr/yr
FLOW · DATA-04 live
BILLING Stripe CRM Salesforce DB Postgres PRODUCT Mixpanel 3NODE stage · transformvalidate · publish WAREHOUSE Snowflake ANOMALY Alert · flagged DIGEST Slack · weekly BOARD PDF · pack live · 04:21 digest sent · 142 readers
05
Custom

The weird ones —
the ones nobody's built before.

We've built a kitchen prep-list scheduler for a 14-location catering chain. An auction-bid runner for a heavy-equipment broker. A patient-intake flow that integrates with three different EMRs. If you can describe the process over a 30-minute call, we can scope it.

  • [01]Catering · prep, supplier orders, waste↓ 88% time
  • [02]Heavy-equipment · auction bid scheduler↑ 3.4× volume
  • [03]Healthcare · patient intake across EMRs↓ 6 days
  • [04]Construction · permits + subcontractor sync↓ 41% delays
  • [05]Yours · 30-minute scoping call
SAMPLE · CATERING.PREP live
BOOKINGS Event book INVENTORY Stock levels SUPPLIERS Supplier API 3NODE demand modelprep planner KITCHEN Prep list ORDERS Supplier order WASTE Waste report sample · catering · 14 locations
[ 04 ] [ 03 ] How it works 01 / 04
1
Step 01 · Five-day discovery

Map

We shadow your team for five working days. Every click, every macro, every "ugh, this part."

By the end of the week, we hand you a process flow diagram, a ranked backlog of automation candidates, and an honest answer to "is this worth doing?" — sometimes the answer is no, and we'll tell you that up front.

duration5 working days costfixed fee NDAday-one
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Step 02 · Two to six weeks per flow

Build

Our operators design and build the automation in your stack — using the right tool for the job, not the one that pads our hours.

RPA, server-side scripts, API integrations, scheduled jobs, AI agents with guardrails — whatever fits. Weekly demo + approval. We don't disappear for two months and surface a black box.

cadenceweekly demo parallelismup to 4 flows IPyours, day-one
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Step 03 · Zero-downtime rollout

Deploy

We roll the automation into production on a schedule that doesn't blow up your week — usually a Tuesday morning, never a Friday afternoon.

Blue/green wherever possible. One-hour team training per flow. First-week hyper-care with a dedicated channel in your Slack or Teams. If anything looks wrong, we roll back in under sixty seconds.

downtime0 training1h / flow rollback< 60s
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Step 04 · We run it, forever

Operate

We don't ship and disappear. We run the automation. We monitor it. We fix it before you notice — usually before your morning coffee.

Every month you get a report showing hours saved per flow, dollars recovered annualized, every incident with a root-cause analysis, and our roadmap for the next thirty days. If your stack changes, we update the flow. If a vendor breaks an API, we swap it.

SLA30 min · biz hrs monitoring24/7 reportingmonthly
01 · Map 02 · Build 03 · Deploy 04 · Operate
[ 05 ] Industries scroll · or hover any row

Find your sector.

  1. 01 Software hours back each week
  2. 02 Catering less prep, less waste
  3. 03 Deliveries hours, now minutes
  4. 04 Finance days, not weeks
  5. 05 Manufacturing more out the door
  6. 06 Healthcare days, now next-day
  7. 07 Retail far less manual work
  8. 08 Legal more billable time
a real example

Software

hours back every week

Their on-call team was drowning in alerts, and most of them were noise. Now most alerts sort themselves out before anyone gets woken up, and the ones that actually matter reach the right person fast.

  • Alerts get sorted automatically — the routine ones close themselves, with a full record kept
  • Real problems reach the right engineer with the background they need to fix it fast
  • The paper trail auditors ask for is collected on its own, not scrambled together later
ALERTsomething pings 3NODEsorts it handled for you needs a person send to on-call

Catering

most of the prep time gone

Inventory, prep lists, and supplier orders used to eat a full day a week at every location. Now they run on their own, kitchens start the day with a clear plan, and a lot less food gets thrown away.

  • Prep lists for every location, worked out from what is actually booked
  • Supplier orders drafted automatically, with limits so less food goes to waste
  • Yesterday's numbers waiting for the owners every morning
BOOKINGSwhat's booked SALEStypical walk-ins RULESallergens, limits 3NODEplans prep + ordersevery location to the kitchen supplier orders daily numbers

Deliveries

minutes instead of hours

Checking delivery paperwork against orders used to take the finance team the first three hours of every day. Now it takes about a minute and a half, and the money the couriers owe back actually gets claimed.

  • Paperwork from every courier checked against the orders, automatically
  • Money the couriers owe back gets claimed instead of left on the table
  • Customs paperwork prepared on its own; only the odd exception needs a person
first courier second courier third courier 3NODEchecks every line into the books refund claimed

Finance

days instead of weeks

Closing the books used to take a week and a half of manual work. Now it's a couple of days, anything that looks off gets flagged before anyone has to ask, and audits stopped eating the whole quarter.

  • Invoices read, checked, and entered without anyone keying them by hand
  • Anything unusual gets flagged with the context to decide quickly
  • Month-end entries prepared and queued for a quick sign-off
EMAILan invoice 3NODEreads + checks it into the books to a person filed away

Manufacturing

more output

The factory floor and the finance side never agreed, because the only bridge was a spreadsheet emailed every Friday. Now everyone sees the same numbers, refreshed through the day, and quality problems get caught on the line instead of at the end.

  • Floor data and the finance side kept in step, updated through the day, not once a week
  • Quality issues flagged on the line, before the next batch starts
  • One set of numbers everyone trusts — no more arguing over whose spreadsheet is right
the line the schedule quality log 3NODEties it together one dashboard team alert

Healthcare

next-day instead of a week

Front-desk staff were retyping patient details between systems that didn't talk to each other, and insurance approval dragged on for days. Now it's one flow, fully logged, and patients are cleared the next day.

  • Patient details flow between every system on their own, fully tracked
  • Insurance approval that took days now takes hours
  • A record of who saw what is kept, with names hidden in the review view
NEW PATIENTtheir details INSURANCEtheir card REFERRALdoctor's note 3NODEties it togetherfully logged patient record every system patient portal

Retail

a fraction of the work

Prices had to be updated by hand across four different stores, and they'd drift out of sync by Friday. Now a price change lands everywhere in under two minutes, and refund fraud gets screened automatically.

  • One price change rolls out to every store in under two minutes
  • Refunds screened for fraud automatically; only the suspicious ones need a look
  • Competitor prices watched daily — flags real moves, ignores the noise
Shopify Amazon Walmart 3NODEsets the prices back to stores fully logged

Legal

back to billable work

Associates were spending a third of their time on first-pass contract review. Now the first pass takes about five minutes, deadlines don't slip, and more of their day goes to the work clients actually pay for.

  • First-pass contract markup in about five minutes, in the firm's own style
  • Key dates pulled out and tracked automatically, conflicts checked up front
  • Time entries captured as they work instead of reconstructed at day's end
EMAILa contract 3NODEmarks it up filed away to a partner key dates
[ 06 ][ 02 ] Why 3node 06_03

The cost of manual.

You just saw the hours. Here's what they're worth — and what the same day looks like once that work is ours, not your team's.

Your day · without us 0% real value created
Your day · with us 0% real value created
$0 recovered productivity, year one* *median mid-market client
  • 06_01

    We build it — and run it.

    A flowchart doesn't move that bar. A system you own, monitored 24/7, does — the phone you call is the one we built.

    SLA
    30 min · business hours
    On-call
    24/7 monitoring
    Reporting
    Hours-saved monthly
  • 06_02

    One team. One contract.

    Discovery, build, deploy, ops — under one roof. Nothing falls between vendors, and the IP is yours from day one.

    Engagement
    Single SOW
    Models
    Fixed-fee or rev-share
    IP
    Yours, day one
  • 06_03

    Your industry, your stack.

    IT to catering — the patterns rhyme, the tooling adapts. 140+ flows already in production.

    Flows
    140+ in production
    Industries
    11 served
    Lock-in
    Zero by default

You will automate.

The only question is whether your competitor calls us first.

Book a discovery call
[ 07 ] Case study 07_01
CLIENT LOGISTICS · 200 STAFF · accounts payable · ≈3,000 invoices / mo

It's the most boring job in the building — and now nobody does it. Invoices hit the inbox and post themselves. The few exceptions reach us with the fix already attached. We moved two people onto work that actually matters, and we stopped paying late.

— Head of Finance · mid-market logistics company
engagement 2025 · figures shared with permission
2-week build ≈3,000 invoices/mo 2 people redeployed
METRIC BEFORE AFTER Δ
Handling time / invoice 9 min 35 sec ↓ 94%
Time to post 6 days same-day ↓ 96%
Posting errors 1 in 9 1 in 300 ↓ 97%
Late-payment fees $6,800/mo $0 ↓ 100%
Annualized recovery $190K net
[ 08 ] [ 04 ] Let's begin

Ready to see your processes mapped?

Thirty-minute call. We'll find three flows worth automating before we hang up. No deck. No "discovery proposal." Just the work.

Book a discovery call