I did every job in this company. Now software does most of them.
Fifteen years ago I started a cutting tool distributor in Vietnam from nothing, and for years I was every role in it. Automation came last, not first, and that order is why it worked. Not an agency, not a vendor, not a developer optimising for a cost structure you do not have. Every tool here gets a paid account and a real workflow before it gets a recommendation.
The order that made it work
Step 1
The work as it actually is
Price lists in four formats, stock counts that disagree, invoices nobody chased.
Step 2
Written down, step by step
The slow, unglamorous part. A documented procedure per function, before any tool.
Step 3
Then, and only then, automated
A machine can hold to a process. It cannot invent one you never agreed on.
What this site does differently
Paid accounts only
No vendor comps, no sponsored placements. If a tool costs money, I paid it.
Real workflows
Quotes, stock sync, purchase orders, overdue invoices. The work that actually eats your week.
Every number has a file
Prices, run times, screenshots. Dated, and published so you can check them.
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One automation teardown a week
What I built, what it cost, and what broke. No theory, no roundups of tools I have not run.
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