lj venture studios
Business automation & integrations

Custom automation for the work eating your team's time.

Invoice reconciliation, orders, equipment, CRM and internal tools — built around your systems, owned by you, priced per project.

Why we built this service

The boring work is the most expensive work.

Every business we work with has the same problem: a small number of repetitive tasks quietly absorbing huge amounts of senior time. Reconciling invoices. Re-keying orders. Chasing equipment. Cleaning the CRM. Stitching reports together by hand.

None of it is hard. All of it is expensive. And almost all of it can be automated with a mix of clean integrations and well-placed AI.

We build that automation, from scratch, around your existing systems — then hand it over.

Selected work

What these systems look like.

A few representative interfaces from automations we've built — anonymised, but true to the shape of real production systems.

Finance · ReconciliationFeatured
recon.io · finance
live
Invoice reconciliation
v2.4.1
Auto-matched
98.4%
2.1% MoM
Open exceptions
14
6 cleared today
Hours saved / wk
32
vs. manual
InvoiceCounterpartyAmountStatus
INV-20418Northshore Logistics£12,480.00Matched
INV-20417Halcyon & Bell£3,920.50Matched
INV-20416Meridian Civils£28,750.00Exception
INV-20415Pinegrove Estates£1,240.00Matched
INV-20414Atlas Freight Co.£9,605.00Pending
Auto-matching invoices against POs, statements and bank lines — exceptions only to humans.
Operations · Multi-channel
ops-sync · operations
live
Orders & inventory sync
v2.4.1
Orders / 24h
1,939
12% WoW
SKUs in sync
4,612
Sync latency
2.4s
median
Shopify1,284
Amazon412
Trade portal196
Manual / EDI47
Last sync · 14s ago Healthy
Live sync between marketplaces, ERP and warehouse — no more midnight stock chases.
Field · Equipment
fleet.os · equipment
live
Equipment & asset tracking
v2.4.1
Assets tracked
287
Utilisation
74%
+6% MoM
Service due
9
next 14d
EX-220
Excavator 8t
Site 04 · Leeds
In use
GN-118
Generator 60kVA
Yard · Wakefield
Available
TL-077
Telehandler
Site 02 · York
Service due
DM-044
Dumper 6t
Site 04 · Leeds
In use
CR-009
Compressor
In transit
Moving
Every asset, its last-known location, service window and on-hire status — in one place.
AI · Document intake
agents · ai workflows
live
AI agent · invoice intake
v2.4.1
Runs / day
412
Auto-resolved
91%
9% to human
Avg. runtime
3.1s
09:42:18triggerInbound email · supplier invoice (PDF)
09:42:19llmExtracted line items with gpt-4 vision
09:42:20toolMatched supplier → Acme Components Ltd
09:42:21toolPosted draft bill to Xero · awaiting approval
09:42:21toolNotified @finance in Slack
run complete · 1 awaiting approval
LLM-driven extraction, validation and posting — with a full audit trail of every decision.
Workflows · Pipeline
pipeline.run · workflows
live
Workflow automation pipeline
v2.4.1
Executions / 24h
1,247
99.2% success
Failed runs
12
0.8%
Avg. duration
4.2s
StageVolumeHealth
01Webhook received
1,247Healthy
02Validate payload
1,240Healthy
03Enrich & match
1,238Healthy
04Post to ERP
1,235Healthy
05Notify Slack
1,235Healthy
All stages green · last run 8s ago
End-to-end automation runs, observable at every stage, retried on failure.
Reliability · Monitoring
opswatch · monitoring
live
Alerts & error monitoring
v2.4.1
Open alerts
2
1 critical
Error rate
0.3%
< 1% SLO
MTTR
4m 12s
median
AlertSourceMessageSeverity
ALT-9021ERP syncRate limit exceeded · retrying in 60swarning
ALT-9020Webhook endpointInvalid signature on 3 requestscritical
ALT-9019Xero APIOAuth token refreshedinfo
ALT-9018Orders pipelineShopify webhook timeout · resolvedwarning
ALT-9017Agent runnerLLM context truncated · degradedwarning
Status page · all systems nominal Monitoring
Alerts routed by severity and source — paged before customers feel it.
Sales · Lead routing
route.ai · sales
live
Lead scoring & routing
v2.4.1
Leads / 24h
47
12 enriched
Avg. lead score
72
Time to owner
3m
95th pct
LeadCompanyScoreOwnerStatus
Harriet VanceAtlas Freight Co.92James R.Hot
Darius OkonkwoMeridian Civils78Sarah T.Warm
Priya MehtaNorthshore Logistics64James R.Warm
Liam BrennanPinegrove Estates41UnassignedCold
Chen WeiHalcyon & Bell88Sarah T.Hot
Auto-routing · round-robin + score threshold Active
Scored, enriched and routed to the right owner the moment a lead lands.
What we automate

From reconciliation to AI agents.

Finance

Invoice & payment reconciliation

Match invoices to payments across Stripe, bank feeds, Xero and QuickBooks. Flag exceptions, auto-post the rest, close the books faster.

  • Xero / QuickBooks
  • Stripe & bank feeds
  • Exception queues
  • Auto-posting rules
Operations

Orders, stock & equipment sync

Keep orders, inventory and equipment in sync across Shopify, ERPs, warehouses and field tools. One source of truth, updated in real time.

  • Shopify / WooCommerce
  • ERP & WMS sync
  • Equipment tracking
  • Low-stock alerts
Sales & CRM

Lead capture, routing & enrichment

Every enquiry tagged, enriched, scored and routed to the right person. No leads lost in an inbox, no duplicates, no manual data entry.

  • HubSpot / Pipedrive / Salesforce
  • Lead scoring
  • Enrichment
  • Round-robin routing
Documents

Document extraction & processing

Pull structured data from PDFs, scans, emails and forms using AI. Quotes, receipts, contracts, delivery notes — into your systems automatically.

  • OCR + LLM extraction
  • Quotes & receipts
  • Contracts
  • Email parsing
Internal tools

Dashboards & internal apps

Custom internal tools for your team — approval workflows, admin panels, reporting dashboards, anything off-the-shelf software can't quite do.

  • Admin panels
  • Approval workflows
  • Reporting dashboards
  • Role-based access
AI agents

LLM-powered agents & assistants

Agents that triage support, draft replies, classify tickets, summarise calls or run multi-step workflows. Connected to your data, with guardrails.

  • OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini
  • RAG over your data
  • Tool use & function calling
  • Human-in-the-loop
Process

Scoped, built, handed over.

01

Discovery

We map the workflow end to end — systems, data, edge cases and the cost of getting it wrong. You leave with a scoped plan and a fixed quote.

02

Build

Built inside your accounts, with your credentials, on your infrastructure where possible. Versioned, tested, and observable from day one.

03

Integrate

Wired into the systems your team already uses. We don't ask people to change tools — we make their tools talk to each other.

04

Handover

You own the code, the credentials and the documentation. We can stay on for support and iteration, or step away entirely.

Pricing

Custom · price on application

Every automation is different, so every quote is bespoke. We start with a paid discovery to scope the work, then give you a fixed price for the build. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices.

  • Paid discovery to scope systems, data and edge cases
  • Fixed-price build with clear milestones
  • You own the code, credentials and documentation
  • Optional support & iteration retainer after handover
FAQs

Automation, answered.

What kinds of work do you automate?+

Invoice reconciliation, order and inventory sync, equipment and asset tracking, lead routing, document processing, reporting, CRM hygiene, internal approvals and AI agent workflows. If it's repetitive and rules-based, it's a candidate.

How much does a custom automation cost?+

Pricing is custom (POA). Most engagements start with a paid discovery to scope the work, then a fixed-price build. Smaller automations typically start from £3,500; larger multi-system integrations are quoted per project.

Which systems can you integrate with?+

Anything with an API or database — Xero, QuickBooks, Stripe, Shopify, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce, Notion, Airtable, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, custom internal tools, and leading LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Perplexity).

Do you build with AI agents or traditional automation?+

Both, and usually a mix. Deterministic logic for anything that must be exact (money, stock, compliance), and LLM-powered steps for fuzzy work like classification, extraction, summarisation and drafting.

Who owns the code and the data?+

You do. We build inside your accounts, on your infrastructure where possible, and hand over full ownership of the code, credentials and documentation.

How long does a typical build take?+

Discovery is usually 1–2 weeks. Builds range from 2 weeks for a focused automation to 8–12 weeks for multi-system reconciliation or agent workflows.

Got a workflow that's draining hours every week?

Tell us what it is. We'll tell you honestly whether it's worth automating, and what it would take.