This is an area I specialise in. I can look at repetitive or labour-intensive business processes and propose ways to automate them hourly, daily, weekly, or however often is required. You can be totally hands-off and let the solution handle your business process automatically, saving time, reducing errors, and freeing your team to focus on higher-value work.
Some example use cases (some theoretical, some real):
Daily report summarised and sent to your distribution group
Say you have a spreadsheet that needs explaining or summarising by AI, then emailing to your distribution list each day at midday. I can automate uploading it to your cloud, CDN, FTP server, or website, sending it to your AI account with an accurate prompt to help your team quickly understand it, then emailing it to everyone who needs it. It gets set up once and then just runs until we turn it off.
Auto-crop product photos to subject, resize to aspect ratio, intelligently name, then output
Say you need to resize your ecommerce product photos to a specification given by a third-party website that wants to feature them. The website says they must be cropped to a 3:4 aspect ratio with the item nicely framed. The image needs to be 1600px high and named product-name-colour.jpg. Now imagine you have a folder containing 20,000 images. You don't want to be manually cropping each item to the new aspect ratio, resizing it, and naming it by hand. You would be there for eternity. I can create a PowerShell script that leverages a few Node utilities to do it for you in minutes. It will use subject recognition to identify the item within its background or white space, crop it to a 3:4 aspect ratio, downscale it to 1600px high, automatically identify its colour variation, and write it to your converted folder named as required, for example plasticwidget-deluxev2-blue.jpg.
I've created some tools to help me track stock changes in the second-hand musical instrument market. One, called gear-weeder, runs daily at 5am from a spare laptop. It checks stock I have previously found and determines whether it has sold. If it has, it is removed from the list of available listings. I have another tool called gear-getter. It searches certain websites for specific search terms and emails me when potentially interesting stock becomes available for review. I would need a team of people performing those two tasks every day. The two tools I have built enable me to run this page as a single person.
These are just some examples of the types of problem-solving and automation work I can bring to an organisation as an employee or contractor. If you're interested in discussing your requirements, please get in touch.