Oxford, Ohio · Butler County & Greater Cincinnati
Your Zaps break and nobody in the building knows why
Most businesses that reach for Zapier get somewhere real with it, then hit a wall. The automations work until a field name changes, a task limit gets hit, or the person who built them leaves. Now something silently stopped last Tuesday and nobody noticed until a customer did.
This is probably you if
- Automations break and you find out from a customer
- The person who built them has left
- Your Zapier bill grew faster than the value did
- You hit something Zapier cannot do and stopped there
- Nobody has documented what runs, or why
Where no-code runs out
Zapier and Make are genuinely good, and for a lot of jobs they are the right answer. The wall is usually one of three things: the logic gets too branching to hold in a visual editor, the task volume makes the bill worse than a small custom build, or the thing you need is not a supported action.
That is the point most businesses either give up or start paying for a plan far bigger than they need.
What I do
Build what should be built in Zapier or Make, because it is cheaper to maintain and you can see it. Build the rest properly in code, and connect the two so it is still one system rather than two half systems.
Add the thing no-code setups almost never have: monitoring. If an automation fails, someone should know that day, not at month end.
Fixing what is already there
Plenty of the work is inheriting somebody else's automations. A contractor built them, or a former employee, and now they are undocumented and fragile. I map what exists, work out what still earns its keep, and rebuild the parts that keep breaking.
Questions people actually ask
- Do you only work in Zapier and Make?
- No, and that is the point. I use them where they are the right tool and write code where they are not, so you are not paying platform fees for something that should be fifty lines.
- Can you take over automations someone else built?
- Yes, and it is common. First step is usually mapping what actually runs, because that is rarely written down anywhere.
- Do you work outside Cincinnati?
- This kind of work is mostly remote, so location matters less here than it does for a site visit. Local clients get in-person time when it helps.
Worth a conversation?
Fifteen or twenty minutes about how your business actually runs. No deck, no discovery fee. If I do not think there is anything here worth building, I will tell you that.
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