Custom Automation Workflow Development

Event-driven processes, scheduled jobs, and multi-step orchestration - eliminating manual work with reliable, auditable automation.

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Reliable Business Automation

We design and build custom automation workflows for businesses across the UK and Isle of Man. Event-driven processes, scheduled background jobs, and multi-step workflow orchestration - all built reliably with full audit trails.

Business processes that can be automated but have not been represent a consistent drain on team capacity and a consistent source of errors. Every manual step in a repeatable process is an opportunity for a mistake, a delay, or a missed action.

Every automation system we build is designed and delivered personally by Owen Jones, OLXR's founder and lead engineer. We map your existing process in detail before designing any solution - because automation that replicates a broken manual process simply produces a faster broken process.

Who This Is For

Businesses with repetitive predictable processes handled manually

Teams whose workflows span multiple systems with manual coordination

Organisations generating reports, documents, or communications manually

Companies with time-sensitive actions at risk of being missed

Businesses that have outgrown off-the-shelf automation tools

Businesses where reliability and auditability are critical requirements that off-the-shelf tools cannot guarantee

What We Deliver

Event-Driven Workflows

Trigger automation on specific conditions

Scheduled Jobs

Regular tasks executed on a defined schedule

Multi-Step Orchestration

Decision points, parallel execution, and exception handling

Automated Reporting

Regular reports and documents produced automatically

Alerting Systems

Communication triggered by events, thresholds, and deadlines

Queue-Based Processing

High-volume tasks with prioritisation and failure recovery

Full Audit Trails

Every action logged

Failure Recovery

Retry logic, dead-letter queues, and failure alerting so nothing is lost and problems surface before they compound

Our Approach

Design the Workflow Before the Code

Every automation starts with detailed process mapping. Steps, decision points, exceptions, failure modes - all documented before code.

Build for Reliability

Error handling, retry logic, dead-letter queues, failure alerting as standard. Every action logged.

Monitor in Production

Business data changes, third-party systems have outages, edge cases emerge. We build monitoring and provide ongoing support.

Technologies We Use

ASP.NET Core

Hangfire

SQL Server

EF Core

REST APIs

AWS

Azure

SendGrid

Docker

Don't see your stack? Get in touch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Off-the-shelf automation tools (Zapier, n8n, Make, and similar) are the right choice for simple, linear workflows between popular platforms where reliability requirements are moderate and the operations involved are low-volume. Custom automation becomes the better choice when your processes involve proprietary or legacy systems those tools cannot reach, when you need business logic or exception handling they cannot express, when the volume or cost profile makes per-task pricing uneconomical, or when reliability, performance, and auditability are critical production requirements.

Orchestration layers tracking state, handling partial failures, with the ability to replay.

Exception handling is a first-class concern - explicit handling designed for each scenario.

Related Services

Integrations

API integration and automation services

Workflow Automation

Custom workflow automation software

Data Sync

Data synchronisation and pipeline development

Ready to Automate Your Workflows?

Tell us what your team is doing manually. We'll give you an honest view of the best approach.