Business process automation, built as real software
Every company accumulates work a person does only because nobody wrote the software to do it. Rekeying an order into a second system. Chasing a signed document. Rebuilding the same report every Monday.
- ENGAGEMENT
- Fixed-scope build
- DEPLOYS TO
- Your cloud account or ours
- DELIVERED BY
- Automato AI
01 — WHAT THIS IS
OK Next maps the process as it actually runs — who touches it, where it breaks, what it costs in hours — and then writes software that performs it. The automation is custom-coded and deployed to infrastructure you or we control.
No-code connectors are good for a weekend prototype and expensive the moment the logic gets real. Nested conditions, retries that have to be idempotent, rate limits, partial failures that must not double-charge a customer, per-task pricing that becomes a line item, and a connector that changes under you. Written code handles all of it, is versioned and testable, and can be read by any engineer you hire later.
What you get is a deployment, a repository, and a plain-English description of what runs, when, and what happens when it fails. If OK Next stops working with you, it keeps running.
One run of an automation service, from trigger to exit.
- The run is triggered by a webhook or by a schedule.
- It enters the automation service through an idempotency key, which records that this unit of work has been started.
- The work step runs. It reads from and writes to the systems the process touches: a CRM, a calendar, accounting — and, on a given process, e-signature, e-invoicing or messaging.
- The run reaches a result. The result has two exits, OK and ERROR.
- On OK, the run writes the run log: what executed, when, and what it did.
- On ERROR, the run retries. The retry re-enters through the same idempotency key, so work that already succeeded is not repeated and a customer is not charged twice.
- If the failure persists, the run alerts a person. It does not go silent.
The failure path is the emphasised path in this drawing, and it is the only one that ends at a person. It is the part a no-code screenshot never shows.
The failure paths are the part a screenshot never shows. A retry re-enters through the same idempotency key, so work that already succeeded is not repeated; a failure that persists alerts a person.
02 — WHAT WE BUILD
- 01TRIGGER RECEIVEDOK
- 02READ ORDEROK
- 03WRITE INVOICETIMEOUT
- 04RETRY BACKED OFFOK
- 05SIGN REQUESTOK
- 06WRITE CRMOK
- 07ALERTA PERSON NOTIFIED
RUN COMPLETE · IDEMPOTENT
Simulated interface. Every value in it is a placeholder. One run: a step times out, the run retries it under the same key, and a person is alerted inside the same run.
03 — HOW IT IS BUILT
01
Scope
The process as it runs today, written down, with the manual steps and handoffs named.
02
Build
Short cycles against a staging URL you can open at any time.
03
Instrument
Logs, alerting and an admin view, so a failure surfaces to a human.
04
Operate
Monthly operation, or a clean handover to your team. Both are quoted at scoping.
04 — EVIDENCE
Tell us what needs building.
Describe the process, who does it now, and the systems it touches. OK Next reads it and replies within one business day.