Step one
Operations audit
$3,500
1–2 weeks. Workflow map with time and cost per step, a ranked list of what is automatable, and build estimates for each. Credited in full against a build.
Rekeying
Removed
Undervolt Labs
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Operations automation · California
Same output.
Less draw.
Undervolting runs a system at lower power and loses nothing. We do it to operations: find the work burning hours for no reason, and replace it with software that runs quietly underneath.
01 — The gapWhy the work is still manual
Anyone could get there with these tools.
Almost nobody does.
The capability is sitting there, free or close to it, and most teams still do the work by hand. Not because they are lazy, and not because the tools are bad.
Because nobody on staff wants to be the person who bets a real process on something they do not understand yet. That hesitation is the entire gap.
02 — What we buildThree components, wired in series
Work goes in dirty.
Approved records come out.
Approval
Human
Audit trail
Complete
Source code
Yours
03 — The idea, literallyVoltage / frequency curve
Undervolting,
as a chart
The same chip, running the same clock speed, drawing less power. Not slower. Not throttled. The headroom was always there, wasted as heat, because nobody tuned it.
Stock voltage
Undervolted
Work completed
Unchanged
Power drawn to do it
Down sharply
In an office the axes change and the shape does not. Same work out. Far fewer hours in.
04 — Undervolt your operationCost against output
Right now, every extra order costs you another person
When the work is manual, cost rises in lockstep with volume. Undervolting breaks that coupling. Output keeps climbing. Cost stops following.
Cost as it works today
Cost undervolted
Recovered
1,200
Cost today
—
per month
Cost undervolted
—
per month
Recovered
—
per year
If you double volume
—
recovered per year
Model: 8 minutes of human handling per item at a $38 loaded hourly cost, with an overtime and rework penalty above 1,500 items. Undervolted: 1.2 minutes of human approval per item plus $1,800 a month to run and maintain the system. Adjust all of it on the call.
05 — Who you would work withOne person, not an agency
Alan Hastings
I spent my career in mortgage operations, and the last several years building the software that runs it: a borrower-facing application portal, pricing and sign-off tooling, document intake with automated review, and integrations across loan origination systems, Microsoft 365 and SharePoint. Production systems, real customers, real auditors.
That work was in lending, and almost none of it was about lending. It was about documents arriving in the wrong format, systems that refuse to talk to each other, and capable people spending their day as the integration layer. Every industry has that problem.
I started Undervolt Labs because the tools to fix it are already here, and what stops most teams is not capability. It is that nobody wants to be the person who bets a real process on something they do not understand yet. I have already been that person, somewhere the output had to be right and someone was going to check it afterward.
How I work
- —Fixed scope, fixed price, agreed in writing before anything starts
- —A human stays in the approval path. The machine drafts, a person decides
- —You own the source and the documentation. No platform to rent
- —Every decision the system makes is recorded and reviewable
- —If there is nothing here worth automating, I will tell you that instead
06 — Where to startEngagements
Start with the audit
One to two weeks watching how the work actually happens, not how the process document says it happens. You get a written map either way. If you go ahead with a build, the fee comes off it in full.
Step two
Build sprint
Scoped after the audit
One system, built and shipped into your environment against your real data. Fixed scope, fixed price, agreed before anything starts. Source and documentation are yours.
Ongoing
Keeping it running
Monthly, if you want it
Monitoring, fixes, and a queue of small changes as your process changes. Optional. What we build is yours to run without us.
Start with
a call
Thirty minutes, no charge. Bring the number above and we will pressure-test it together.