How the numbers are made.
Notes by Maksym Stepanenko on how Workflow OS scores and prices automation, how we plan funded R&D, and what SR&ED asks of software work.
Northstar Professional Services is a fictional 30-person firm. Every number is what the engine computes for it.
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How Workflow OS decides which process to automate first Fourteen weighted factors, a risk penalty and one process worked through by hand. 8 min -
Client Onboarding, from process map to payback One process at a demo firm, mapped, scored, redesigned and costed. 9 min -
Plain software, an assistant or an agent: how the pattern is chosen Six patterns, and the rule that keeps regulated decisions with a person. 7 min -
How we structure an R&D project for grant funding: OpenField The four parts we write before R&D starts, shown on our farm-robot logbook. 8 min -
SR&ED for software development: what qualifies and the record we keep The uncertainty test, the work CRA leaves out, and the record we keep during a build. 6 min
Send us the process that costs you the most time.
A few lines are enough: what the work is, who does it and in which systems.
Maksym Stepanenko, founder, in business since 2012. Products in public use, one of them in the App Store.