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Admin automation
Orders retyped from emails, stock sheets kept up by hand, invoices chased one by one. I find the manual steps between your systems and build the tools that do them, so your team doesn't have to.
Admin automation · Hastings and across Sussex
I take the admin out of small businesses.
Orders retyped between systems, spreadsheets kept by hand, invoices chased one at a time. I find where the hours go and build the tools that do that work for you, with AI where it actually helps. Twenty years of shipping software, based in Hastings, working across Sussex.
Chris Merry
AI Engineer and Consultant · Hastings, UK
Available now
What I do
Fix the process first. Add AI where it earns its keep.
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Straight answers on AI
You've tried ChatGPT and aren't sure where it fits. I look at how your business actually runs and tell you plainly where AI will save time, where it won't, and what it would cost to run.
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AI engineering, for product teams
For software companies building AI into their product. Routing, tool calls, retrieval, evals and the token bill, built to run in production and be looked after, not to win a demo.
Prices
Start small, with the price up front.
Every job starts with a free 30-minute call. No pitch, just a chat about where the time goes.
Half-day AI and process check
£250
Half a day with you and your team, looking at where the time goes and where AI could help. You get a one-page list of what to do next, in order.
One-day process audit
£450
A full day mapping where the admin hours actually go. Then a short report naming the three automations worth building, with rough costs for each. Book a build within 30 days and the £450 comes off it.
Builds
Fixed price, or £75 an hour
The tool or integration, built and handed over working. A fixed price when the job is clear, hourly when it isn't. Written up, so it doesn't depend on me.
Monthly support
From £150 a month
Once it's running, a set amount of time each month for fixes, small changes and the next job on the list.
Recent work
From a flower wholesaler in Rye to software used by thousands.
Full write-ups coming soon.
Lotus Imports
Technical partnerSince March 2026
A trade-only flower supplier in Rye. I'm their go-to for anything technical: a faster phone-order screen, warehouse barcode scanning, site search, email security and finding new trade customers.
Shopify apps · Cloudflare Workers · Shopify Flow
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Sole developerSeven-language site · the system the school runs on
A language school's public site and the system it runs on: booking visiting students, matching them with host families, and keeping the CRM in step.
Nuxt · Postgres · Zoho CRM · WhatsApp · OpenAI
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Lead developer5,300+ users · £5k MRR by month four
No-code chatbots built from your own data. Prototype in a week and the first paying customer within a month.
RAG · Discord · Slack · WhatsApp · Nuxt
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Lead developer22,745 sites · delivered in 30 weeks
A continuous-improvement platform turning years of dormant data into scored and prioritised recommendations.
Sync engine · Rules engine · ISO 27001 audit
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One of the lead developersReal-time race screens · games, site and API
Competitive F1 simulator venues. The in-venue race screens, driven live by the game servers and car telemetry, plus reaction games, the website and the API behind them.
Vue · NestJS · WebSockets · SignalR
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Sole developerOne Cloudflare Worker · no servers to run
A tool developers use to test webhooks and AI agents, which AI assistants can also drive themselves.
Durable Objects · D1 · MCP
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It works with what you already use.
- What it plugs into
- Shopify, Xero, Sage, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Zapier, Zoho CRM, WhatsApp, and the spreadsheets in between
Contact
Tell me where the time goes.
A few lines is plenty: what the business does, and the job that eats the most hours. I read every message myself and reply within one working day, usually to book the free 30-minute call.