I automate the admin that eats your week.
Wakework is a one-person automation practice. I build the reports, checks and workflows that replace the manual admin your team is still doing by hand — so the right information shows up on its own, on time.
"It should just happen automatically."
What most people think right before they call meWho this is for
- Operations and production teams still tracking stock, parts or maintenance in a spreadsheet someone updates by hand
- Small business owners who want fewer manual reports, without hiring for an admin role
- Anyone who's thought "this should just happen automatically" more than once this month
At my previous job, I built an automated weekly stock report that gave the operations manager a live health check on every part — so they always knew exactly what needed reordering, without running the numbers by hand. Read the full case study ↓
10 Common Efficiency Pitfalls
A short, free guide to the manual habits that quietly cost small teams the most time. I'll email it straight over.
No spam — just the guide, and occasionally something similar.
You don't have to feel the pain to have a problem
The report you rebuild every Friday, the count you redo every month — none of it feels broken. You've done it long enough to do it fast, without thinking about it. That's exactly the kind of task automation is best at: not the crisis, but the thing that's fine, week after week, forever.
- Time comes back for the parts of the job that actually need a person
- Fewer mistakes from tired, repeated manual steps done the same way one time too many
- Nothing depends on one person remembering to do it, or being in the office to do it
- Decisions get made from what's true today, not whatever was last checked
Five ways I take manual work off your plate
Draft names — happy to rename these to match how you actually talk about the work.
Stock & parts monitoring
Automatic health checks on inventory, so reordering happens before something runs out — not after.
Reporting & dashboards
The report you build by hand every week, turned into one that builds and sends itself.
Workflow automation
Connecting the tools you already use, so information moves between them without anyone copying and pasting.
Alerts & exception flagging
You hear about it only when something needs a decision — not every time nothing's wrong.
Admin & AI agents
Routine emails, scheduling and data entry, handled automatically and consistently.
Weekly parts health check, automated
Stock decisions made from a manual count
The operations manager needed to know which parts were running low and what to reorder. Getting that answer meant manually checking stock against usage every week — slow, easy to put off, and easy to get wrong when it was rushed.
An automated weekly health check
A report that pulled stock and usage data on its own schedule and turned it into a clear health check for every part — what's fine, what's low, and what needs ordering, ready before the week's planning even started.
A five-minute read, not an afternoon
The operations manager could see exactly what needed ordering at a glance, every week, without setting aside time to run the numbers — and stock decisions stopped depending on whoever had time to check.
Manual checks happen when someone finds time, so they drift and get skipped. Automated checks run on the same schedule every week, whether or not anyone remembers.
Engineering background, not a sales background
I'm Duva, an industrial engineer based near Crawley. Wakework is something I run myself — no account managers, no handoffs, just the person who builds it also answering the phone.
Day to day, I work in industrial engineering for a large manufacturing organisation. Before that, I spent years as a production engineer on the shop floor, where a good part of the job was noticing the manual processes nobody had gotten round to fixing.
That's really where Wakework came from. Production and operations environments run on checks, counts and reports — most of them still done by hand, on a schedule, by someone who has better things to do.
I build the automations that take that work off your plate, using the same engineering approach I'd use on a production line: understand the process first, then simplify it before automating it.
Tell me what's still done by hand
Book a call, or send a message with a bit of detail on the process — I'll reply with whether it's a good fit for automation and roughly what it'd take.