The Workflow Masterclass
What 4 industries taught us about building business operations systems. Patterns, anti-patterns, and the anatomy of a workflow.
ReadCustom case management and work management systems, built around how your team actually works.
How we do it
Most systems fail because they make a business work the way the software wants. We start from how your business works, then strengthen it.
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We sit with the people doing the work and draw how a case or job really moves today — every handoff, re-key and spreadsheet.
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We redesign the workflow: who does what, which rules stay fixed, where AI can take the reading and drafting, where a person decides.
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We build the system around that workflow — connected to the tools you already use. Fixed price for the first working version.
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It goes live with your team, every step recorded. Then we strengthen it as your business changes.
Three live workflows, each one shipped and running. Open any one to see exactly how it runs — the roles, the stages, and the audit trail.
AML/CTF Compliance Workflow
The compliance workflow a Tranche 2 reporting entity uses to set up, build, approve and operate its AML/CTF program.
Residential Build · Site Management
The site-management workflow a residential builder runs from one QR sticker per room — credentialed managers author once; everyone else scans to read their slice.
Immigration Case Workflow · Migration Agents & Lawyers
The case workflow a migration agency runs to take an Australian visa case from first contact all the way to a lodged, decided application.
BY INDUSTRY
Each one starts from the role Australian businesses hire for. AI agents take the reading, drafting and checking — your people make the decisions.
Agentic AI · Architectural principles
We use AI to reduce the user’s manual thinking, analysis and decision-making work — not to replace normal system automation.
Validations, APIs, workflows and system rules should stay controlled in software; the LLM should work on top of them, not bypass them.
Offload the complex user work to the LLM where it helps, but keep a balanced flow where the user remains in control of important decisions.
Use case · Lex-AML morning brief
Six scenes, one morning. Click through to see where the thinking moves, where the rules stay, and who decides. The first agent we ship is read-only; nothing widens until that has earned trust.






7:00 — the whole day is in her head
A compliance officer sits down. Reviews due, cases waiting, customers who have gone quiet, deadlines. Today she would open six screens to work out what matters first.
MeansThis is the cognitive load: not clicking, but holding the state of every case in her head.
Start here
Thirty minutes, no slides. We'll sketch your workflow back to you and tell you honestly whether software would strengthen it.
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What 4 industries taught us about building business operations systems. Patterns, anti-patterns, and the anatomy of a workflow.
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