Microsoft Power Automate workflow visualisation — interconnected automation nodes
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Stop paying salaries for work a flow can do at 3am, for free.

Microsoft Power Automate is the workflow engine inside the Microsoft licences you already own. We build the flows that retire the spreadsheet-juggling, copy-paste and email-chasing that's quietly eating your operating budget.

What it is

The automation layer your business already pays for.

Power Automate is Microsoft's enterprise workflow and RPA platform. It sits inside Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform, connecting your apps, data and people through flows — small, reliable programs that run when something happens (an email arrives, a row is added to SharePoint, a file is uploaded, a schedule ticks over).

For most South African businesses we work with, Power Automate is already included in their existing Microsoft 365 licensing. They just don't have the in-house Power Platform engineering to put it to work. That's where we come in.

Power Automate is part of the broader Microsoft Power Platform we work across — alongside Power BI, Power Apps and Microsoft Copilot.

Capabilities

What we build with Power Automate

Cloud Flows

Event- and schedule-triggered automations that run in the Microsoft cloud — no servers to maintain. Connect SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, Dataverse, SQL, custom APIs and 1,000+ standard connectors.

Desktop Flows (RPA)

Robotic Process Automation for legacy systems with no API — Sage, Pastel, browser portals, Excel macros, scanned PDFs. We let bots do the keyboard-and-mouse work your team is doing today.

Approval Workflows

Multi-stage, parallel and conditional approvals routed through Teams, Outlook or a Power Apps interface — with full audit trail, escalation rules and SLA tracking.

Scheduled Orchestration

Nightly data syncs, month-end report distribution, recurring reconciliations, expiry reminders. Anything you currently put a reminder in your calendar for.

System Integration

Custom connectors to ERPs, accounting systems and on-prem databases via the on-premises data gateway. We make systems that were never meant to talk to each other exchange data automatically.

AI-Augmented Flows

Flows that read documents, classify emails, extract invoice line-items and call Copilot/GPT models inline — replacing whole categories of human triage work.

Cloud flow architecture — triggers, conditions and actions across connected services

Cloud Flows

The workhorses of modern operations

A cloud flow is a sequence of actions that runs in Microsoft's cloud whenever a trigger fires. We design them around real business events — an invoice landing in a mailbox, a quote being accepted in CRM, a row appearing in SQL — and route the work automatically to the right system, the right person, and the right next step.

  • Native triggers from Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Dataverse, SQL, Forms, custom webhooks
  • Branching logic with conditions, switches, loops and parallel branches for real-world process variation
  • Error handling and retry policies that make flows resilient to flaky downstream systems
  • Monitoring & alerts so you know about a failure before your customer does
Desktop flow RPA — automation interacting with legacy applications

Desktop Flows · RPA

For the systems that refuse to integrate

Not every system in your business has an API. Sage, Pastel, legacy ERP modules, browser portals from suppliers, government compliance sites — many still require a human to log in and click buttons. Power Automate Desktop is Microsoft's Robotic Process Automation tool that handles exactly that work.

We build bots that operate these systems the way a person does — opening windows, typing fields, reading screens, downloading reports — but without the lunch breaks, the typos, or the salary. RPA is usually the fastest route to ROI on legacy-heavy estates.

Multi-stage approval workflow with parallel routing and audit trail

Approval Workflows

Sign-offs without the email chase

Most approval bottlenecks are not strategic decisions — they're email threads that lost their way. We replace ad-hoc approvals with structured flows: routed to the right person automatically, actionable directly from Teams or Outlook, escalated when SLAs slip, and logged for audit. Finance loves them. Operations loves them more.

  • Sequential or parallel
  • Conditional routing
  • Approve in Teams
  • SLA escalations

Use cases

What we've already automated for clients

Invoice capture and routing into your accounting system
Quote generation, approval and dispatch
Onboarding and offboarding checklists across HR, IT and Finance
Document expiry monitoring (contracts, compliance, certifications)
Lead routing from web forms into CRM with automatic enrichment
Daily reconciliations between operational and finance systems
Customer notification workflows triggered by ERP events
Project status roll-ups from multiple sources into one report

See real outcomes in our case studies.

How we work

A delivery model built for production, not demos.

01

Discovery

We sit with the people doing the work, map the current process step by step and identify which tasks are repetitive, rule-based and high-volume — i.e. genuinely worth automating.

02

Design

We draft the target flow, define triggers, actions, exception paths and the data model. You approve the design before a single connector is configured.

03

Build

We build in your Microsoft tenant using your existing Power Platform / Microsoft 365 licensing — no third-party tools, no extra subscriptions, no vendor lock-in.

04

Hand-over

We document the flow, train your team, configure monitoring and alerting, and stay on for a hyper-care period to fix anything that surfaces under real load.

Pairs well with

Power Automate is rarely alone

Most engagements combine flows with one or more of the surfaces below. Explore the broader Power Platform service catalogue.

Have a process in mind?

Tell us what it looks like today. We'll come back with an automation blueprint, a realistic delivery timeline and an estimate of the hours you'll recover.