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# An AI-run business, with a human at the helm.

Most consultancies talk about AI. Automancer is one. The finance, the project tracking, the website you're reading — all run by agents. Every decision and every call — run by Waseem.

## Why "Automancer"?

An automancer works magic through machines. That's the joke, and it's also the honest job description. We make small businesses run like they're enchanted — admin that does itself, systems that talk to each other, work that just quietly happens overnight — and then we tell you plainly that it isn't magic at all. It's very good engineering, pointed at the boring problems that cost you the most.

Small businesses have been priced out of proper automation for years. We think that's daft. The technology to fix it is here, it's cheaper than ever, and there's no reason a care provider in Bradford or a manufacturer in Manchester shouldn't have systems as sharp as anyone's.

So we built a consultancy to prove it — by running the consultancy itself on exactly the tools we sell.

## The business is the demo

Automancer's own back office is run by AI agents: finance operations, project tracking, this website, the field notes. And then there's the line we will never cross: **a human makes every decision and takes every call.** That human is Waseem. The agents draft, calculate, monitor and propose. Waseem decides.

We're this open for two reasons. One, honesty: you deserve to know what's automated and what isn't. Two, it *is* the pitch — we already ran the experiment on ourselves.

## Meet Waseem

Automancer is founded and run by Waseem Ilyas — an engineer who got tired of watching good small businesses drown in admin that a machine could do in seconds. Before Automancer, he spun out and ran a live SaaS product business, so he has shipped real software that real people pay for and depend on.

He works with clients across social care, manufacturing, professional services and travel — from a ~600-person care provider's digital transformation to a one-page website for a brand-new travel agency. When you work with Automancer, you work with Waseem.

## Five rules we actually keep

1. **Sensible prices, published** — No enterprise mark-up, no "let's get you on a call" before we'll say a number. Our prices are on the website.
2. **A human in the loop, always** — Agents do the work; Waseem makes the decisions and takes the calls. We promise a meeting within one week of first contact.
3. **Built properly, not prototyped** — Audited, monitored, backed up, tested. The same standard we hold our own infrastructure to.
4. **Governed, staged delivery** — You see it working before it goes live. No big-bang launches, no nasty surprises.
5. **Remote-first, Bradford-rooted** — Based in Bradford, serving Leeds, Manchester and the UK. Where you are is not a problem we’ve ever had.