# AI Automation Ireland: Business Automation Consultant from €500 > AI automation for Irish small businesses. Bookings, invoicing, follow-ups and an AI receptionist that answers missed calls. Projects from €500, fixed quote after a free call. Source: https://fmops.ie/automation Last updated: 2026-08-19 The same confirmation email, the same follow-up, the same numbers copied from one tool into another. Every one of those is a job a machine can do, every day, without forgetting. I build the workflows, hand them over documented, and you own them. No proprietary platform, no monthly fee to me for something that just runs. [Start the free audit →](https://fmops.ie/automation-audit) Five minutes, with an ROI calculator. Or book a call. No pitch. ## Sound familiar? - ·You send the same email several times a day. - ·You chase people for replies and for payment. - ·You copy the same data between two systems. - ·Small jobs eat the whole morning. Example One booking. Four messages. No one at a keyboard. Booking comes inCalendly, website form or a call logged0 min Confirmation sentEmail + SMS with the details and a map linkSame minute Reminder the day beforeCuts no-shows; reply to reschedule–24 h Review request afterOne honest ask, sent once, logged in the CRM+2 days Illustration None of that needs a person. It needs a workflow that runs on its own. What gets automated ## What a business automation consultant in Ireland actually automates. Yours will be some mix of them. - 01 ### Automate bookings Confirmation on the spot, a reminder the day before, and a message when someone does not turn up. This is the fastest way to [stop no-shows with automated reminders](https://fmops.ie/blog/stop-no-shows-automated-reminders-ireland). - 02 ### Automate follow-ups Quotes chased at three days and seven days. Enquiries answered within minutes instead of tomorrow, and logged in whichever system you use. If you have not picked one yet, read the guide to the [best CRM for a small business in Ireland](https://fmops.ie/blog/best-crm-small-business-ireland). - 03 ### Automate invoicing Invoices raised from the job, then polite reminders before the due date and after it, escalating on a schedule you set and stopping the moment payment lands. See [Xero automation for an Irish business](https://fmops.ie/blog/xero-automation-irish-business) for what this looks like in practice. - 04 ### Data entry between tools Bookings into your accounts package, orders into your stock sheet, enquiries into your CRM. Typed once, or not at all. - 05 ### Reporting The numbers you check every Monday, pulled together and sent to you before you sit down. - 06 ### Review requests A request sent after the job is finished, at the moment the customer is happiest, without you remembering to do it. Monday, 08:04 Reminders sent✓ Quotes chased✓ Invoices reminded✓ Weekly numbers emailed✓ Illustration Your stack, not mine ## Built on tools you already use. Your data stays where it is. I connect the systems you already pay for rather than moving you onto something new. Common connections - Make - Zapier - Google Workspace - Microsoft 365 - Xero - QuickBooks - Stripe - Shopify - Calendly - HubSpot - Pipedrive - Mailchimp Using something not on this list? Ask. Most business software can be connected one way or another. FMOps - Calendly - Xero - Stripe - Google Workspace - HubSpot - Mailchimp Illustration Platforms ## Zapier consultant or Make.com consultant? I build on both, so I have no reason to push you onto one. I pick the platform that suits the job and tell you why before I start. Make usually wins when a workflow has many steps, branches on a condition, or loops over a list. Its pricing counts operations rather than tasks, so a long multi-step workflow tends to cost less per run. It is the one I reach for on booking, invoicing and follow-up chains. Zapier usually wins on breadth. It connects more apps than anything else, so if you use a niche Irish or trade-specific tool, Zapier often has it. Its editor is simpler, which matters if your team will edit the workflow after I hand it over. Either way the price is the same: business automation projects start from €500, and you own the account and the workflows. For the longer comparison, read [Zapier vs Make for Irish businesses](https://fmops.ie/blog/zapier-vs-make-ireland). Make · Zapier - Multi-step - Branching - Operations pricing - App breadth - Simple editor - You own it Illustration For trades ## AI receptionist for trades. Plumbers, electricians, heating engineers and other trades across Ireland lose work in the same way: the phone rings while you are under a sink or up a ladder, and the caller rings the next name on the list. An AI receptionist answers that call, or the WhatsApp message, when you cannot. It takes the name, number, address and a short description of the job, offers a slot from your calendar, books it, and drops the details into your phone and your CRM. If it cannot help, it takes a message and texts you straight away. It is built on tools you already have, your number, your calendar, your CRM, so nothing new to learn and nothing to migrate. Projects start from €500. Be clear on the limits. It books jobs and takes messages. It does not price a complex job, survey a system or commit you to a quote. Anything it cannot answer comes to you as a message, with the caller told a person will ring back. Tuesday, 14:12 · missed call Call answered✓ Name, address, job noted✓ Slot booked from your calendar✓ Details texted to you✓ Illustration How it works ## Three steps, then it runs without you. - 1 ### Audit call Free 30 minutes. We list the repetitive jobs, how often each one happens, and how long it takes. That list is the quote. - 2 ### Build I build the workflows against your real accounts, test them on real cases, and show you each one working before it goes live. - 3 ### Handover You get a one-page reference: what runs, when it runs, how to switch it off, and who to ring. Thirty days of fixes are included after launch. You own the workflows. If we stop working together, they keep running. AuditFree BuildTested live Handover30 days of fixes Illustration Price ## A fixed number before any work starts. Projects from €500. Three to five workflows are typically €1,500 to €3,000. Exact quote after a free audit call. The price depends on how many workflows you need and how many systems have to talk to each other. I quote a fixed number before any work starts, and I will tell you on the call if the job is too small to be worth paying for. Book a free audit call → from €500 Projects start here. Exact quote after a free audit call. Illustration The list from the audit call is the quote. Nothing is estimated twice. Not ready to talk yet? Start with the [free automation audit and ROI calculator](https://fmops.ie/automation-audit). It takes five minutes and tells you what your repetitive admin is costing. Free tool: the [missed call ROI calculator](https://fmops.ie/roi-calculator) shows what unanswered calls and enquiries cost you a month, and what it takes to earn that back. Or read what a business automation project looks like before you buy one: [what business automation costs in Ireland in 2026](https://fmops.ie/blog/business-automation-cost-ireland-2026). ## Guides - ·[Business automation cost in Ireland 2026](https://fmops.ie/blog/business-automation-cost-ireland-2026) - ·[Stop no-shows with automated reminders](https://fmops.ie/blog/stop-no-shows-automated-reminders-ireland) - ·[Best CRM for a small business in Ireland](https://fmops.ie/blog/best-crm-small-business-ireland) - ·[Xero automation for an Irish business](https://fmops.ie/blog/xero-automation-irish-business) - ·[How to automate your salon in Ireland](https://fmops.ie/blog/how-to-automate-your-salon-ireland) - ·[Zapier vs Make for Irish businesses](https://fmops.ie/blog/zapier-vs-make-ireland) ## What you can check before you pay anything. FMOps is new and small. I would rather show you the facts you can verify than a wall of praise. Everything below is true today. - Where Waterford, Ireland One person, not an agency. Ring or WhatsApp [+353 86 107 2373](tel:+353861072373), or email [fionn@fmops.ie](mailto:fionn@fmops.ie). - Built on Tools you can look up Claude - Make - Vercel - Google Business Profile Nothing bespoke that only I can maintain. - Ownership No lock-in You own the domain, the code and the content. Accounts are set up in your name and handed over at the end. See the [terms](https://fmops.ie/terms). - Data Data processing agreement Signed before I get access to anything: what I can see, for how long, and that access ends at handover. [Read the FMOps DPA (PDF)](https://fmops.ie/fmops-dpa.pdf). - Work sample See a real report first An [example AI visibility audit](https://fmops.ie/example-report), written up in full for a fictional business so nobody's data is shown. - Response Reply within one working day Enquiries, quotes and support requests. If that ever slips, I will say so here. Businesses I have worked with In their words Worked with me already? [Leave an honest review](https://fmops.ie/leave-a-review). Good or bad, it goes up as written. Questions first? [Read the FAQ](https://fmops.ie/faq). ## FAQs - Projects start from €500, with the exact quote set after a free audit call. The price depends on how many workflows you need and how many systems have to talk to each other. I quote a fixed number before any work starts, and I will tell you on the call if the job is too small to be worth paying for. - You do. I build them against your real accounts and hand them over documented. No proprietary platform, no monthly fee to me for something that just runs. - The workflows keep running. They live in your accounts, and the one-page reference tells you what runs, when it runs, how to switch it off, and who to ring. - No. Your data stays where it is. I connect the systems you already pay for rather than moving you onto something new. Using something unusual? Ask: most business software can be connected one way or another. - Thirty days of fixes are included after launch, along with the one-page handover reference. FMOps is one person, not an agency, so you deal with the practitioner who built the workflows, not an account manager. - Both. I am a Zapier consultant and a Make.com consultant, and I pick the platform to suit the job. Make suits multi-step workflows with branching, and its operations pricing is usually cheaper for long chains. Zapier connects more apps and has a simpler editor, which helps if your team will edit the workflow later. The price is the same either way, from €500, and the account and the workflows are yours. ## Book a free audit call. [Start the free automation audit →](https://fmops.ie/automation-audit) Includes an ROI calculator. Prefer to talk? [Book a free 30-minute call](https://fmops.ie/#book) · or email [fionn@fmops.ie](mailto:fionn@fmops.ie) 30 minutes to list what is eating your week and work out what can be handed to a machine. You get the list either way. --- FMOps - Waterford, Ireland - fionn@fmops.ie - +353 86 107 2373 - All pages: https://fmops.ie/llms.txt - Full text: https://fmops.ie/llms-full.txt - Sitemap: https://fmops.ie/sitemap.xml - Contact: https://fmops.ie/contact - Developer resources: https://fmops.ie/developers