The business runs because you push every piece of it by hand.
Bookings by text, routes in your head, invoices at night. Or your version of that, I'd only know from a conversation. It all works, but only through you, and it's taking your evenings with it. I've already taken that job off a real business you can click on. Have a look at the receipts before you take my word for anything.
I'm drowning in admin. My evenings are gone.From a real brief, August 2026
A dog-care business that ran on paper diaries
Viviana's own number
Viviana owns Skool of Drool. On camera, in her words, the system gave her back about three hours a day. She said it on camera; I never measured it myself, so it's marked self-reported. She was also sure the routes couldn't be automated.
A monthly setup the founders did themselves
Creator Akatemia runs a three-day event every month, and the founders set each one up by hand because there was nobody to hand it to. She'd assumed fixing it would take about a month. In her words it took about a day, and they'd been expecting to hire someone for it.
I run my own operations the same way
21 scheduled jobs make 83 runs a week across my own businesses. Backups, checks, reports, publishing. I don't start them and I don't babysit them. When one fails, a report tells me.
An admin interruption turned into a product
Reissuing certificates was a manual job that kept interrupting real work. It's now a £10 self-service product: application, Stripe payment, a human approval step, then a download link only the applicant gets. Live and taking money right now.
I was looking for ways it wasn't going to work but we didn't find any. It all worked.Viviana, owner of Skool of Drool, on camera. Watch her say it
We thought we would have to hire an assistant to do it but turns out AI can do it for usSusanna Lönnrot, founder, Creator Akatemia, on video. Watch her say it
Where it's still patchy
Coverage isn't total. Not every one of the 87 dogs in the registry carries a postcode yet, so 362 dog-stops have been assigned to vans, and the stops the system can't place appear on the dispatch board marked unassigned.
- skoolofdrool.com, the business the routes belong to, still running LiveOpen it
- The certificate reissue service, the paid flow that replaced a manual admin job LiveOpen it
- The full case study, how the whole Skool of Drool system fits togetherRead it
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