Service

Workflow Automation
for the manual middle of your business.

Eliminate the repetitive decisions, handoffs, and data-shuffling that drain your team's day. AI handles the judgment calls; humans handle what matters.

Midus builds end-to-end automations that go beyond trigger-and-forward. We use n8n, Temporal, and queue-based architectures to orchestrate the moving parts — and drop LLMs into the steps that used to need a person reading, classifying, or deciding. The result is a workflow that actually finishes, not one that dumps a notification in Slack and waits.

Who this is for

If your team is stuck doing work a well-designed workflow should handle, we can help.

Ops teams buried under data entry and handoffs

Your operations team copies fields between systems, re-enters the same customer info in three places, and spends half their day being a human ETL job. The work is important, but none of it actually requires a person.

Finance and billing teams reconciling by hand

Invoices arrive in email. Line items get keyed into the ERP. Exceptions get chased down in Slack. AP runs on spreadsheets held together with willpower. Month-end closes burn nights and weekends because the tooling stops where the judgment starts.

Customer-success teams reading every ticket

Your CS leads triage each incoming escalation by hand — classify severity, identify the right owner, pull in account context, draft a response. They're good at it. They're also the bottleneck, and the team can't scale without cloning them.

What we build

Workflows that actually decide, not just forward.

The components below are what we typically compose together. The exact mix depends on your stack, your data, and where the current process breaks.

Intelligent routing and triage

Incoming tickets, leads, emails, or documents get classified, prioritized, and sent to the right queue — with the right context attached. No more round-robin assignment to whoever's on shift. The workflow knows what this is and who should see it.

Unstructured-data extraction

Emails, PDFs, scanned invoices, contracts, onboarding forms. An LLM pulls out the fields you actually need — vendor, amount, due date, PO number, signature status — and pushes structured data into the next step. Works on the messy real-world inputs OCR tools choke on.

Cross-system integrations

Your CRM, ERP, ticketing system, billing platform, and data warehouse all need to stay in sync. We wire them together with reliable queues, retries, and idempotent writes — so an API hiccup doesn't create duplicate records or silent drops.

LLM-in-the-loop decision steps

The spots where traditional automation fails — "is this refund request reasonable?", "does this contract clause deviate from policy?", "which category does this expense belong to?" — get an LLM making the call with your rules and examples as context. Reasoning is logged so you can audit later.

Human-in-the-loop approvals

For high-stakes or low-confidence steps, the workflow pauses and asks a human. Approve, reject, edit, or escalate — via Slack, email, or a lightweight web UI. The workflow resumes from exactly where it stopped, with the human's decision recorded.

Observability and replay

Every workflow run is tracked end-to-end: inputs, each step's output, timing, retries, errors. When something goes wrong, you can see exactly where and replay from that point with fixed input — no archaeology through logs to figure out what happened.

Outcomes

What automation actually moves.

Example scenarios below reflect the range we typically see. Your numbers will depend on ticket volume, data quality, and how deeply the workflow integrates with your systems.

Support triage

Mean time to resolution down 40–60%

A support org where every escalation waited for a human to classify and route it now sees tickets land in the correct queue within seconds, with account context and suggested priority already attached. Agents spend their time solving, not sorting.

Example scenario.

Invoice processing

AP cycle from days to hours

A finance team that manually keyed invoices from email into the ERP now receives them, extracts line items, matches against POs, flags exceptions for review, and posts the clean ones automatically. Month-end stops being a crisis.

Example scenario.

Ops headcount

Team time reallocated to higher-leverage work

Instead of hiring two more ops coordinators to keep up with growth, the existing team pivots to projects that actually move the business — partnerships, process redesign, customer work — while the automated pipeline handles the throughput.

Example scenario.

How we work

Three phases, usually 4–10 weeks to a live automation.

01

Process mapping & baseline

We sit with the team doing the work, map the real (not the documented) flow, find the decision points and handoffs, and measure today's cost — minutes per case, volume per week, error rates. Output is a written plan with realistic ROI math.

02

Pilot on one flow

We pick the one workflow with the best cost-to-effort ratio and build it end-to-end — extraction, decisions, integrations, human checkpoints, observability. It runs in parallel with your current process first, so you can compare outputs before cutting over.

03

Expand and monitor

Once the pilot is stable, we roll to the next workflow and the next. We instrument everything, review exceptions weekly, and tune the LLM prompts and decision rules based on what actually goes wrong — not what we expected to go wrong.

FAQ

Questions we get often.

What's the difference between this and Zapier?

Zapier (and Make, Workato, and friends) are great at the easy third: "when X happens, do Y." They fall over on the middle third — the steps that need judgment, extract data from messy inputs, coordinate across long-running processes, or pause for human approval and resume days later. We build on tools like n8n and Temporal for real orchestration, with LLMs doing the steps that used to require a person. You can think of it as the grown-up version of the same idea.

Where does AI actually help vs. traditional automation?

Traditional automation is the right tool when inputs are structured and rules are deterministic — "if status = paid, update the record." AI earns its keep on judgment steps: classifying an ambiguous ticket, extracting fields from an unstructured email, deciding whether a refund request fits policy, summarizing a conversation for the next owner. We use the cheapest tool that solves each step. Most workflows are a mix — deterministic glue with LLM calls at the hard spots.

What if the AI makes a mistake mid-workflow?

A few layers. First, confidence thresholds — below a set score, the step escalates to a human instead of guessing. Second, human-in-the-loop checkpoints on anything high-stakes (refunds over $X, contracts with non-standard terms, customer-facing messages). Third, full replay: every run is logged step by step, so when something does go wrong you can see exactly where, fix the input or the prompt, and re-run from that point without starting over. We design for mistakes — they happen in manual processes too.

Can you work with our existing tools?

Almost always, yes. We've integrated with Salesforce, HubSpot, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Zendesk, Intercom, Jira, ServiceNow, Shopify, Stripe, Postgres, Snowflake, and a long tail of in-house systems with REST or SQL access. If a system has an API or a database we can read, we can wire it in. If it doesn't, we'll tell you that up front — sometimes the right answer is to replace or wrap the system first.

What's a realistic timeline?

For a single well-scoped workflow: 4–6 weeks from kickoff to running in parallel with your current process, another 2–4 to cut over fully. Broader rollouts across multiple processes typically run 3–6 months in phases. We don't do year-long transformation engagements — we ship the first workflow fast and prove value before expanding.

Who owns the automation after you ship?

You do. The code lives in your repos, runs on your infrastructure (or a managed n8n/Temporal instance we set up for you), and uses your API credentials. We document every workflow, hand off runbooks, and train your team. Most clients keep us on a light retainer for tuning and new flows; some take it fully in-house. Either works — no lock-in.

Related services

Often paired with:

Let's automate the first workflow.

Tell us which process is burning the most hours, what systems it touches, and what "done" looks like. We'll come back with a realistic plan, cost range, and timeline — typically within two business days.