AI Automation

Practical AI that takes the admin off your plate, so your team can focus on customers and growth.

Let AI handle the admin. Keep your team on the work that matters.

We build AI-powered workflows that answer enquiries, qualify leads, chase follow-ups and pull your reports together, all connected to the tools you already use.

Less time on admin, more time on customers and growth, with your team in control the whole way.

The work that fills your week but doesn't grow your business

Most businesses we talk to don't need a robot. They need the small, repetitive jobs to stop slipping through the cracks.

The phone rings while you're on the tools

And the caller tries the next business on Google.

Website enquiries sit in a shared inbox

Until someone finds a spare minute to reply.

Quotes go out and nobody chases them

Because everyone's busy with today's jobs.

Monday morning disappears

Copying numbers from five dashboards into a spreadsheet.

None of these jobs need much judgement. They just need doing, every time. That's exactly the kind of work AI is now well suited to.

Small business owner taking a phone call while working on a laptop in her studio

One enquiry, handled from start to finish

Here's what a typical lead workflow looks like once it's automated. Each step runs in the background, day or night, and your team steps in where they add the most value.

Example workflow
  1. Step 01

    New enquiry arrives

    A web form, missed call or social message comes in, even after hours.

    Example: 9:47pm · “Hot water's gone. Can someone come tomorrow?”

  2. Step 02

    AI reads and qualifies it

    It picks out the job type, location and urgency, and checks them against your rules.

    Example: Job: hot water · Belmont · Urgent

    Human checkpoint

    Anything unusual? It's flagged for a person, not guessed at.

  3. Step 03

    Your CRM is updated

    The contact and enquiry are logged with a short summary, so nothing gets re-typed.

    Example: Contact created · Tagged “Hot water” · Summary added

  4. Step 04

    A follow-up goes out

    The customer gets a prompt, on-brand reply with a clear next step.

    Example: SMS: “Thanks Sam, here's a link to book a time that suits →”

  5. Step 05

    The right person is notified

    Urgent jobs go straight to the right phone. The rest wait in a tidy summary.

    Example: Sent to: on-call tech

Built around your rules, your tone and your systems. Illustrative example.

Where AI automation actually helps

The workflows worth building aren't flashy. They're the jobs that eat into your week without needing much judgement. Here's where we usually start.

Trades & service businesses

On the tools while the phone rings? These workflows keep new work coming in while you're busy.

AI phone and chat assistants

Answer calls and chats after hours or when you're flat out, capture job details, answer common questions and book or route the job. Every conversation is logged.

Lead qualification and routing

Sort genuine jobs from tyre-kickers by area, job type and urgency, and send each to the right person.

Quote follow-up

Quotes that have gone quiet get a timely, personal nudge, so nothing relies on memory.

Review requests

When a job's marked complete, the customer gets a friendly request for a Google review.

E-commerce brands

Customers want answers now. These workflows handle the repetitive questions and the data behind them.

Customer questions, answered

“Where's my order?”, sizing, delivery and returns answered from your own policies and order data. Anything tricky goes to your team.

Product content workflows

First drafts of product descriptions and email ideas in your brand voice, checked by a person before they go live.

Smarter customer data

Order, review and support history tagged and fed into your email platform, so campaigns reach the right people.

Daily trading snapshot

Sales, ad spend and stock alerts summarised and in your inbox before your first coffee.

Every business

Reports, inboxes and records eat into every week. These workflows keep the background admin moving.

Reporting automation

Ad, analytics and CRM data pulled into one plain-English summary, on a schedule you choose.

Inbox triage

Emails sorted, summarised and drafted for your approval, so the urgent ones get seen first.

CRM housekeeping

Duplicates merged, call notes summarised and records kept up to date without anyone typing.

Team knowledge assistant

Quick answers to the questions staff ask every week, drawn from your own procedures.

Built around the tools you already use

You don't need new software or a new system to learn. We connect AI to the platforms you already run on: your CRM, inbox, calendar, website forms, online store and accounting software.

Many of those platforms now include AI features. If a built-in feature does the job, we'll set it up properly and tell you so. If not, we build a custom workflow around your existing tools.

We recommend what suits your business, not a particular vendor. Some tools have their own subscription, and we'll explain any costs upfront.

Connects withYour existing tools

  • CRM
  • Inbox & email
  • Calendar & bookings
  • Website forms
  • Online store
  • Accounting software
  • Job management
  • Ads & analytics
Hand connecting the steps of a process map pinned to a wall with string

How we approach AI automation

  1. 01

    Find the bottlenecks

    In a free strategy session, we look at where your team's time actually goes and pick the repetitive work worth automating first.

  2. 02

    Design the workflow

    We map out each step, the rules it follows and where a person stays in the loop, and talk it through with you before anything is built.

  3. 03

    Build, test and launch

    We build it into your existing systems and test it on real examples. We start with one workflow, so you can see it working before adding more.

  4. 04

    Monitor and improve

    We keep an eye on each workflow after launch, refine it as your business changes, and report back monthly in plain English.

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Practical AI, with you in charge

Good automation should make your business easier to run. Here's how we design every workflow.

  • A person in the loop We build in review points, so anything outside the normal pattern goes to your team before it reaches a customer.
  • Upfront with your customers AI assistants introduce themselves as AI, and customers can always reach a real person.
  • Easy to pause or switch off Every workflow can be adjusted, paused or switched off whenever you need.
  • Privacy built in Designed with Australian privacy obligations in mind. Data stays in your systems wherever possible, and we only use business versions of AI tools.
The admin

AI takes care of

  • Answering routine questions
  • Logging enquiries and job details
  • Drafting replies and follow-ups
  • Chasing quotes that have gone quiet
  • Compiling reports
The people

Your team focuses on

  • Pricing jobs and quotes
  • Judgement calls
  • Complaints and tricky conversations
  • Building customer relationships
  • Strategy and growth

Why work with Big Digital on AI automation

A small, senior team that already runs the marketing behind your leads.

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Senior people only

Your workflows are designed and built by senior specialists with 20+ years' combined experience. No juniors, ever.

Marketing and automation, joined up

We also run ads, SEO and email, so we know where your leads come from and what should happen next.

Advice that isn't tied to a vendor

If the AI already built into your tools does the job, we'll tell you.

Certified partners

Google, Meta, Shopify, Klaviyo, TikTok, Pinterest and SEMrush.

Plain-English reporting

Monthly updates on what each workflow is doing, without the jargon.

Month to month

No lock-in contracts. 100% of our clients have stayed with us for 12 months or more.

Senior Team Only No juniors, ever
Human in Control Review points in every workflow
No Lock-in Contracts Month to month, always

AI Automation FAQs

No. We use AI to remove admin, not people. Workflows take care of repetitive, low-judgement work like logging enquiries, chasing follow-ups and compiling reports, giving your team more time for customers, pricing and judgement calls. Every workflow is designed so your team can review it, override it or switch it off.

Usually not. Some of the most useful workflows are simple, like answering after-hours enquiries or following up quotes, and they suit a two-person trade business as well as a growing online store. If there's nothing worth automating yet, we'll tell you.

Usually not. We connect AI to the tools you already use and handle the technical side. What we need from you is context: how you qualify a lead, what a good follow-up sounds like and what "done well" looks like in your business.

We design every workflow with Australian privacy obligations in mind. Information stays in your own systems wherever possible, and when an AI model reads or drafts something, we use business versions of AI services from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, not free consumer apps.

We design for it. Workflows include review points, so anything outside the normal pattern goes to a person instead of being guessed at, and customer-facing messages can be set to need your approval before they're sent. We monitor each workflow after launch and keep refining it.

It depends on what we automate, so we'll give you a clear quote after your free strategy session. Like all our services, it's month to month with no lock-in contract. Some tools have their own subscription, and we'll explain any costs upfront.

Find out where AI could save your team time.

Book a free strategy session with a senior specialist. We'll look at how your business runs today, point out the admin worth automating first, and give you a straight answer on whether it's worth doing. No pressure, no hard sell.