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Service 01 — Optimisation

WORKFLOW SLICING.

We map every manual hop, hand-off and dead-end in your legacy stack — then surgically remove the friction. What's left is a clean, automated path that scales without breaking.

legacy_in clean_out Module: Opt_01
Manual Hops
−70% Avg.
removed in first pass
Cycle Time
8× Faster
end-to-end throughput
Error Rate
Near-Zero
deterministic paths
Time to First Cut
2 Weeks
audit to live
// The problem we cut

Most stacks don't have a software problem. They have a friction problem.

Every quarter your team adds another tool, another approval step, another copy-paste between systems that were never meant to talk. None of it is wrong on its own — together it's gravity. Work slows down, people become the integration layer, and nobody can see where the time goes.

Workflow Slicing is a forensic audit of that gravity. We trace a real piece of work — an order, a claim, an onboarding — across every system and human it touches, and we measure the drag at each hop.

Then we cut. Redundant hops are removed, brittle hand-offs become hardened automations, and the path that survives is one we can prove, monitor, and keep sharpening.

cutgravity://trace
# tracing one work item across the stack $ cutgravity slice --trace order_8841 CRM 2.1h wait · manual Email approval 4.6h wait · manual [REDUNDANT] Spreadsheet copy-paste · manual [REDUNDANT] ERP 0.3h · automatable Fulfilment 1.2h · automatable 5 hops → 2 hops 8.0h → 0.4h per item slice plan written to ./cuts.yaml

What a slice includes

$ cut_gravity --mode high_efficiency

01

Process Forensics

We shadow real work end-to-end, instrument every hop, and quantify the cost of each delay. No guessing — you get a measured map of where the gravity actually lives.

02

Redundancy Removal

Approval loops that approve nothing, re-keyed data, status-chase meetings. We identify the hops that add zero value and design them out without breaking compliance.

03

Hardened Automation

The hops worth keeping become deterministic, logged, observable automations that run in your environment — not fragile scripts that break the next time a UI changes.

The partnership

Build once.
Improve forever.

A slice isn't a project that ends — it's the start of a relationship. The first cut removes the obvious drag. Then we stay, watching how the workflow behaves in the real world and sharpening it continuously.

  • We learn your systems deeply, so each improvement compounds on the last
  • New friction is caught early — before it becomes next year's bottleneck
  • Edge cases and exceptions feed back into the automation, making it smarter over time
  • You get a partner who knows your stack, not a vendor who ships and vanishes
v1 v2 v3 v∞ efficiency →

// Ready when you are

FIND YOUR FIRST CUT.

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