Fisher TechConsulting

Business automation consulting

First we set up the process. Then an artificial employee runs it.

Most companies do not have an automation problem. They have a process problem that automation then makes louder. We start with how the work actually moves through your company, put the repeatable parts into a defined process, and hand that process to an artificial employee who works inside your systems and answers to a named person on your team.

Consulting first, software second. The software runs on your server, not ours.

The method

Setting up business processes through artificial employees

Not chatbots bolted onto a website, not a pile of integrations nobody maintains. A process is described, an owner is named, and then a worker who never forgets it is put in charge of it.

  1. The process comes first

    We sit with the people doing the work and write down what actually happens, including the parts that live in someone's head, in a chat thread, or in a spreadsheet that only one person understands. The output is a written process map: inputs, decisions, hand-offs, and the point where a human has to stay in the loop.

  2. Then the employee is defined

    Each process gets a role, described the way you would describe a job: what it receives, what it decides on its own, what it escalates, who it reports to, and what it is not allowed to touch. That description is the specification we build against.

  3. The employee is put to work

    The employee runs as a real agent on your infrastructure. It reads messages and answers them, works with your documents and knowledge, uses the tools you give it, and can act on a schedule rather than only when spoken to.

  4. It stays under supervision

    Every employee has a human owner and a boundary. Exceptions go to a person. You can suspend an employee at any moment and the work can go back to the way it was, because the process is written down independently of the software.

What this is for

The kind of work that should not be done by a person twice

If several of these are true, there is usually a process here worth setting up properly.

  • The work lives in chats

    Requests arrive in Telegram, Viber, email and phone calls. Nothing has a status. Whether something got done depends on who happened to read the message.

  • One person is the system

    A single employee knows how the ordering, the reporting or the client handover really works. Their holiday is a company risk.

  • The same answers, every day

    Staff spend hours a week repeating the same explanations to clients or to each other, and the answers are inconsistent because they come from memory.

  • Documents that go nowhere

    Invoices, orders and specifications get retyped from one system into another, and the errors show up a month later in the numbers.

  • Nothing happens without a prompt

    Follow-ups, reminders and routine checks depend on someone remembering. What is not remembered is simply lost.

  • Growth means hiring

    The only known way to handle more volume is another salary, and the new person needs three months of somebody else's time before they are useful.

This tends to fit companies with real operational routine and staff who are not technical: service businesses, retail and wholesale, clinics, logistics, small production. The rule of thumb: the more a process is shared between people, repeats itself, and should happen without being asked for, the more there is to gain.

The employees

What an artificial employee actually is

Not a chat widget and not a script. It is an isolated worker running a real agent session, with its own instructions, its own access, its own knowledge, and its own conversation history with the people it works with.

The difference from a tool

A tool belongs to the person who opens it, and everything it knows leaves with them. An employee belongs to the process. Its memory is the company's, it survives restarts, weekends and resignations, and it is still there on Monday. So ask it this way: if the person who runs this process goes on holiday, should the knowledge of the process stay behind? If yes, it should be an employee.

It does not wait to be asked

An employee can be given standing duties, not only questions to answer. It checks what needs checking, prepares what needs preparing, and the result is waiting before anyone opens a laptop. The work that people postpone is exactly the work that gets handed over first.

What it can do today

  • Hold a real working conversation in Telegram with the people who are allowed to reach it
  • Work from your knowledge: documents, instructions and rules you give it, kept on your side
  • Use tools and connected systems that you approve, so it can look things up and record results, not only talk
  • Act on a schedule, so routine checks and follow-ups happen without anyone remembering them
  • Be given new abilities over time as skills, without rebuilding the setup
  • Be paused, restricted or shut down by you, at any time

What it is not

  • It is not a replacement for your team. It takes the repeatable part so the people keep the judgement part.
  • It is not let loose on money, contracts or anything irreversible. It is instructed to stop before a step that cannot be undone and wait for a person to say go.
  • It is not a one-off installation. An employee that nobody supervises quietly drifts away from the process.

Roles this fits

These are process shapes, not a catalogue. What your company needs is decided in the audit.

Request intake

Takes in
Messages from clients across your channels
Does
Answers what is known, classifies the rest, records it with a status, and hands the unusual case to the right person
Stays with a person
Pricing exceptions, complaints and anything that changes an agreement

Internal reference

Takes in
Questions from your own staff
Does
Answers from your written rules, instructions and past decisions, the same way every time, and tells you when the rules contradict each other
Stays with a person
Approving what goes into the rules in the first place

Document handling

Takes in
Incoming orders, invoices, specifications
Does
Reads them, pulls out the fields that matter, checks them against what you already have, and flags what does not match
Stays with a person
Signing, paying, and anything the employee marked as unclear

Routine follow-through

Takes in
A schedule and a list of open items
Does
Checks what has moved and what has not, chases the owner, and reports the state of things before you have to ask
Stays with a person
Deciding what to do about the things that are stuck

The interface

Deliberately as simple as a message

Your employee is reached in Telegram, from a phone, by people who were never trained on it. That is a decision, not a compromise.

The people whose work this actually is, the storekeeper, the cashier, the person on reception, are not going to learn a new system. They will use the one already open on their phone. So the interface is a chat, and the first day needs no training.

What sits behind the chat is not a cut-down assistant. It is a full agent session with real tools and real access. You are not buying a weaker product because it lives in a messenger. You are putting a capable one behind the simplest door your team already knows how to open.

The engine is the same. We built a cab people can actually sit in.

The platform

It runs on your machine, not on ours

The employee is not a tenant in somebody else's system. It runs on a server that belongs to you, and the conversations and the model traffic stay there.

A sovereign node

Your company gets its own isolated node. The employee runs there as a container, with a local gateway, a local key vault and a local model proxy. Your day-to-day working data is not processed on shared infrastructure.

Your conversations stay on your side

Chat content and model traffic leave the node only to reach the model provider you are paying. Our control side sees configuration, usage counters and encrypted knowledge snapshots, and nothing else is sent to it.

Your own model account

Each employee runs on your own model provider token, held in the vault on your box. You see and control the cost, and you can revoke it without asking us.

Supervised support, not open access

Support access is agreed in writing, limited by role, and written to an audit log you can read. Suspending the node ends that access, and that switch is yours.

Where things run

Your server

  • The employee (isolated container)
  • Local gateway
  • Key vault
  • Model proxy
  • Your knowledge base

Our control side

  • Configuration
  • Usage counters
  • Encrypted knowledge snapshots

Your model provider

Chat content is not routed through our control side. The connection runs one way: the node connects out, and we do not reach in unless you have granted it.

How we work

Four stages, and you can stop after the first

The first stage is deliberately separable. You end it with a written process map that is useful to you whether or not you continue with us.

  1. Process audit

    We map how the work moves today, with the people who do it. You get a written process map, the list of places where time is actually going, and an honest split into what is worth automating, what should be fixed organisationally first, and what should be left alone.

    Deliverable: written process map and a fixed-scope proposal

  2. Employee design

    For the processes worth doing, we write the role specification: responsibilities, boundaries, escalation rules, which systems it may touch, and what a successful week looks like. This is signed off before anything is built.

    Deliverable: role specification, agreed in writing

  3. Setup and going live

    We provision your node, install the employee, connect it to your channel and your knowledge, and run it alongside the current way of working until it is clearly doing the job. The people it works with are trained on it as a colleague, not as a tool.

    Deliverable: a working employee your team is already using

  4. Supervision and expansion

    An employee needs maintenance the way a process does: rules change, edge cases appear, the business moves. We keep it correct, review what it has been doing, and add the next process when the first one is genuinely stable.

    Ongoing, on an agreed support arrangement

Before you write to us

Where we will tell you no

When the process is broken, not slow

Automating a process nobody agrees on multiplies the disagreement. Sometimes the correct answer is two meetings and a written rule, and we will say so.

When the volume does not justify it

If something happens four times a month and takes ten minutes, it should stay a person's job. We would rather lose that piece of scope than sell it.

When the decision must be a person's

Anything where being wrong is expensive and hard to reverse stays with a human. We build the preparation around it, not the decision itself.

Contact

Tell us what keeps repeating

Write in your own words: what your company does, and which piece of work is being done again and again by hand. That is enough for a first conversation. You will get a straight answer about whether there is something here worth doing.

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