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What Would You Automate If "IT" Wasn’t a Barrier?

Small and mid-sized businesses often waste time on manual, repetitive processes (invoicing, inventory updates, copying data between systems) but lack resources to implement enterprise automation solutions.

LeanOps – Low-Code Automation Toolkit for Small Businesses

What We’re Testing

Ship Low-Code Bots in Hours—Not Sprints.


SMBs bleed staff time on cut-and-paste tasks, yet custom automation projects drag on for months and cost a fortune. Zapier, PowerAutomate, and Make already solve 80 % of those jobs—but most teams don’t know which recipes work or how to prove ROI. LeanOps Toolkit curates the highest-impact bot patterns, lets anyone drag-drop a flow, and surfaces real-time savings so leadership keeps investing.


Hypothesis: An SMB will pay a $300 one-time setup for its first bot if LeanOps can demonstrate ≥ 3× annual labor ROI in the sandbox demo.

This Experiment

• Free template gallery + live drag-drop sandbox.

• Offer $300 setup to first interested retailer.

• Pass if one pilot SMB pays the setup fee and runs the bot for two weeks.

Build My First Bot

Features

Bot-Pattern Catalog

Searchable gallery of vetted automation templates ranked by hours saved per run—no trial-and-error or Reddit spelunking.

Drag-and-Drop Builder

Visual node editor exports Zapier or PowerAutomate JSON; even non-devs deploy a working flow in under 30 minutes.

Usage Analytics Ping

Usage Analytics Ping

Lightweight JS snippet tracks bot run-time, tasks completed, and hours saved—feeds ROI dashboard for CFO-grade credibility.

Call To Action

Browse Top 20 Automation TemplatesDrag-Drop a Bot in Web SandboxPurchase First Bot Setup ( $300 )

Social Proof

"Copied the invoice-to-QuickBooks bot—saved 10 hours every Friday."

- Ravi Desai, Co-Owner

"The ROI ping showed $4k savings in month one; budget approved instantly."

- Kara Fields, Ops Manager

"Finally, automation that doesn’t require Jira tickets or dev cycles."

- Lucas Moreno, IT Director

Ethics & Privacy Note

LeanOps never stores client credentials—JSON is handed off and deleted after provisioning. Usage analytics capture only event counts and run times, never payload data. Templates are MIT-licensed; you own and can modify every flow.


We delete experiment data after the study or anytime you ask. 

Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us at leanops@gowenplaces.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.

One-click export to Zapier, Microsoft PowerAutomate, and Make.com; Airtable Automations coming soon.

Our team configures the template with your credentials, tests live data, and hands over full ownership—usually within 48 hours.

You enter staff wage and task frequency; analytics ping logs bot runs and multiplies minutes saved times wage—100 % auditable.

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