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AV Automates respects your privacy. This explains what personal information this site collects and how it is handled, consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
What is collected
Only what you type into the enquiry form: your name, email address, the tools your business uses, a description of the manual task you want automated, and your estimate of the hours it takes. Do not send account credentials or financial details through this form.
Why
Solely to reply to your enquiry, assess whether automation suits your situation, and prepare a proposal if you ask for one. You are not added to a marketing list. No newsletters, no automated sequences. The only automatic email you receive is a one-off confirmation that your request arrived.
Who else sees it
Form submissions are processed by Netlify, this site's host, and delivered to my email. They are also logged in my Google Workspace account (Gmail and Google Sheets). To help me prepare a reply, the task description, tools and hours you enter are sent to Google's Gemini API; your name and email address are not. I read and edit every reply before it is sent. Netlify and Google may store or process data on servers outside Australia, including in the United States. Your information is never sold, rented or traded, and is disclosed only where required by law.
Cookies and analytics
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Client data during a project
If you engage me I may need access to systems holding your business data. That access is governed by our written agreement, not by this policy. My standard practice is that automations run on accounts and infrastructure you own, credentials stay in your systems, access is granted at the minimum level needed, and access is revoked at handover.
Security and retention
I take reasonable steps to protect your information, but no online transmission is completely secure. Enquiry records are kept only as long as needed to deal with your enquiry and to meet record-keeping obligations, then deleted.
Access, correction and complaints
Email vasanwala.abdeali@avautomates.com.au to see what I hold about you, correct it, or ask me to delete it. If you are not satisfied with my response you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.
These terms govern your use of this website. They do not govern any project I deliver for you, which is covered by a separate written agreement.
Case studies and figures
The case studies on this site describe systems I have genuinely built. Client and employer names and identifying details are withheld. Time savings are as measured or reported by the teams who did the work before it was automated, and are stated as ranges where that is what was measured. They describe those specific situations and are not a promise or guarantee of what you would achieve.
The payback calculator
The calculator is an estimating tool. It multiplies the inputs you choose by fixed assumptions: roughly 80% of a repetitive task being automatable, 48 working weeks a year, and a nominal loaded hourly cost of admin time. It does not read your data, does not account for your actual wages, systems, exceptions or the cost of a build, and its output is not financial, accounting, tax or investment advice. Do not make a spending decision on the strength of it.
Professional standing
AV Automates provides business process automation, systems integration and data reporting services. I hold a civil engineering qualification, which I describe as background and training. I do not offer, and nothing on this site should be read as offering, professional engineering services within the meaning of the Professional Engineers Act 2002 (Qld), the Professional Engineers Registration Act 2019 (Vic), the Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 (NSW) or equivalent legislation elsewhere.
Third-party names and platforms
Xero, UKG, BambooHR, Asana, SafetyCulture, Google Cloud, Looker Studio, Shopify, MYOB, HubSpot, n8n and any other product names on this site are the trademarks of their respective owners, named only to describe the platforms I work with. AV Automates is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, or a certified or accredited partner of any of them. Their platforms are governed by their own terms, licences and pricing, which are outside my control.
No advice, no engagement
Site content is general information only. Submitting the enquiry form does not create a client relationship, reserve capacity or oblige either of us to proceed. A project begins only when a written scope and fee are agreed and signed.
Liability
Nothing here excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot lawfully be excluded. Subject to that, to the maximum extent permitted by law I am not liable for any loss arising from your reliance on this site's content or from its unavailability, and my liability for anything arising from your use of this site is limited to re-supplying the information or the cost of doing so.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of its courts.
vasanwala.abdeali@avautomates.com.au
Your business already has the data. It just has nobody reading it.
I build the automations and dashboards that take repetitive admin off small businesses. One engineer, fixed scope.
a week returned to one staff member, by automating a single overtime report
of daily spreadsheet scanning removed from a safety officer's job entirely
systems built across HR, safety, operations and manufacturing
What is the admin actually costing you?
Two numbers you already know. No email, no sign-up.
Copy and paste, data entry, chasing, reconciling.
Including you, if you are honest about it.
Most builds this size are scoped to pay back within the first year. I will show you the actual maths for your case on the call.
Book a free auditEstimate only. Based on the assumptions you set above, not on your actual data, and not financial advice. Assumes roughly 80% of a repetitive task is automatable, 48 working weeks, {{ rateLabel }} loaded cost of admin time.
Systems I have built.
AnonymisedCatching injuries the moment a form is submitted
A workplace health and safety officer read every row of a daily absence report looking for mentions of injury. Thirty to forty minutes, every single day.
- Open the daily absence report
- Read every row for injury mentions
- Hope nothing was worded unusually
- Raise the case by hand
- Make a folder for the medical documents
- Form submitted, keywords flagged
- Safety officer emailed immediately
- Asana task created for the employee
- Drive folder made and linked to the task
- Nothing left to scan
Closing the gap between what sales sold and what production knew
A frozen food manufacturer's accounting system did not talk to its inventory or production apps. Sales was quoting stock it did not have. I connected all three, so stock levels are live and production is flagged automatically when something needs replenishing. Still running in production today.
Also built
Compliance expiry tracking
Monitors employee document and certification expiry dates, visas and licences included, and alerts HR before anything lapses. No more manual spreadsheet checks, no more missed renewals.
Live workforce reporting
Absence, lateness and scheduling reports pulled straight from UKG by API instead of by hand. The overtime report for hourly-contract staff went from a per-employee manual export to a live one, returning seven hours a week to the person who used to compile it.
Safety and operations dashboard
Safety and operations data from several internal systems in one live view, so leadership stopped waiting on manually compiled reports to know where things stood.
Onboarding without double entry
A manager was typing every new hire's details twice, once into BambooHR and again into a document to produce the offer letter. Now the offer letter builds itself from the record that already exists.
Three things, done properly.
A cockpit for your business
Every source you already pay for, joined once and read on one screen. Sales, refunds, margin and cash, current whenever you look at it.
Robots for the boring work
n8n workflows and API integrations that sync records, raise the task, make the folder, send the alert and chase what needs chasing. Built to remove the repetitive work, not to manage it.
When your problem is one of a kind
Documented systems on Google Cloud for logic no off-the-shelf tool handles. Built to be handed over, not held hostage.
I trained as a civil engineer, making sure structures held up under load. Businesses are no different. They fail at the joints.
Automation started as a hobby, writing small scripts to kill the parts of my own job I resented. Then colleagues started asking. Every system on this page began as somebody saying they had lost another morning to a spreadsheet.
Three questions, then I reply.
No calendar tetris. Tell me what is broken and I will come back within one business day with what I would do about it.
Goes straight to my inbox and is used only to reply to you. No list, no sharing. .
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You will hear from me within one business day, from a real person, about your actual problem.
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