We cannot grow without hiring more people
Sound familiar?
- More orders always means more hands
- You turn work down in pressured periods
- The growth is eaten by new payroll
What this is about
The orders are there. The hands are not
You can sell more. The question is who is going to handle it. Capacity resting on headcount means every extra order costs the same portion of manual work as the last one, so the wage bill rises as fast as the revenue, and the gain from growing turns out smaller than expected.
- Why capacity follows headcount
The steps that repeat for every order sit with a person rather than in the system, so capacity equals the number of people at work. And the peaks arrive when several customers happen to order in the same week.
- What the staffing costs
In the busy weeks the choice is between turning an order down and pushing your people. The customer you turned down rarely calls again, and the people you pushed are hard to replace.
- When more hands is the answer
If demand, capital or the craft itself is the bottleneck, a system moves nothing. If you make every item by hand to the customer's measurements, more trained hands are the only way forward, and we will say so.
What you are after is being able to take on more without the staffing having to grow just as fast. Nobody becomes surplus to requirements: the repetitive part moves into the system, the rest stays with your people.
Do the sums backwards first
The fifteenth order of the day costs the same to handle as the first. That is where the sums are settled.
The safe route
How we start, without you committing to anything big
- Step 1
Clarification meeting
A short conversation about where there is most to gain, and what it is worth. Free and without obligation.
- Step 2
Digital pre-project
We look at which work grows in step with volume, and where the staffing is holding you back. You get a concrete recommendation with numbers behind it, and if it does not pay off, we say so. A fixed price that is offset against the first stage if you build on within 90 days.
- Step 3
Development in stages
We build in stages at a fixed price and take whatever pays for itself fastest first. After that, operation and support from the people who know the solution.
You can stop after each step without the effort being wasted.
What the solution usually consists of
We decide exactly what is needed together
Exactly what it takes, we work out together in the pre-project. A challenge like this one we usually solve with one or more of these approaches.
- Digital advice Strategic use of technology and support for your processes, so you get overview, control and better insight into your own data. It is part of most projects.
- Automation Letting the system take over the predictable, repeated steps so your people do not have to.
- System development A system built around your own process, when no off-the-shelf product quite fits.
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This is what it looks like once it is solved

Sales automation and e-commerce for aviation
Frequently asked questions
We want to take more orders without hiring, where do you start?
Does automation mean we have to let people go?
What if our volume swings a lot over the year?
What does it cost, and how do we get started?
How long before we feel an effect?
What if it does not work, can we stop along the way?
Do we own the code and our data afterwards?
You are a smaller agency, do you fit our size?
Related challenges
These often go together
Solve one and these tend to turn up alongside it. See how we approach them.
- Time & waste We type the same data into several places Manual double entry between systems costs time and creates errors. See what can be done
- Customers & sales We cannot answer every customer and quote in time Response time loses orders, and quotes pile up at peak. See what can be done
- Time & waste We are drowning in manual, repetitive work Routine work eats the time that could create sales. See what can be done
We work with many different challenges, and they hang together more often than you would think.
See all challengesShould the business be able to grow without more hands?
- A reply from one of us by the next business day.
- A no-obligation review of your situation.
- Clarity on which options are relevant to you.
- A concrete plan, if you choose to go ahead.
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