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What does your manual work cost you a year?

Every task your team repeats is a cue somebody calls by hand. Price yours in two minutes. I'm Andre Shonubi, and I build the software that runs them.

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Every task your team repeats is a cue somebody calls by hand.

Copy it here. Chase it there. Rebuild the same report every Monday. I turn those into cues that fire on their own, on time, every time.

Try it. Press GO.

Cue stack 6 on standby
  1. Q1Re-key emailed invoices into the ledger6 h/wkSTBY
  2. Q2Copy intake forms into the CRM4.5 h/wkSTBY
  3. Q3Chase approvals over email3 h/wkSTBY
  4. Q4Build the weekly status report5 h/wkSTBY
  5. Q5Update the schedule from five inboxes4 h/wkSTBY
  6. Q6Check every new form for missing fields2 h/wkSTBY

0 hours a week, back

Example cues and example hours. Now price yours.

What it costs you.

Price the work your team does by hand. Add as many tasks as you like. Your queue goes into the booking notes.

Price your manual work

$40 is an example rate. Use yours.

$5,760a year, by hand

144 hours. 3 h a week, 1 person, 48 working weeks, at $40 an hour.

Your queue 0 jobs

Nothing on standby yet. Add the task that eats the most hours.

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    My own businesses run on cue.

    I run three. An agent team handles the busywork, each agent in its own lane. This is a weekday.

    Run of showA weekday
    Called byAndre
    1. News radarScans the AI news, files a brief for the digest.GO
    2. DigestThe weekday briefing lands before the first call.GO
    3. Inbox and calendarFour inboxes sorted. Replies wait for me.GO
    4. ApprovalDrafts hold until I say yes.HOLD
    5. OrchestratorRoutes new work to the right lane, checks what came back.GO
    6. ResearchA deep-research report, filed where I can find it.GO
    7. Production companyQuotes, logistics, Slack follow-ups.GO
    8. Service businessNew leads, quotes and scheduling.GO
    9. Consulting practiceClient builds and follow-ups, tracked.GO
    10. End of dayWhat ran, what is blocked, what needs me.GO

    Nothing is sent, spent or deleted without my OK.

    A typical weekday, by role. The 07:00 and 07:30 cues are on a real schedule.

    Shows I've called.

    Four real projects. Each one started as somebody doing it by hand.

    Post-show reportShipped, in use

    A regional water utility

    Quality plans, built from a 685-page spec book.

    ~8 working days~30 min

    per plan. A person still reviews every one.

    • Upload the spec book. It pulls every requirement.
    • It asks only what the spec leaves out.
    • It fills the plan, the inspection and test plan, and the schedule.
    The review screen of the plan generator, listing only the questions the spec book does not answer.
    It asks only what the spec leaves out.
    Cover page of a generated quality management plan.
    The finished plan. Names are placeholders.
    Post-show reportLive every weekday

    My own three businesses

    An AI agent team with one lane each.

    8 agents

    • An orchestrator that delegates and reports back.
    • Inbox and calendar across four accounts.
    • A digest waiting at 7:30am on weekdays.

    Nothing is sent, spent or deleted without my OK.

    Post-show reportData migration

    An AV production company

    Years of contacts, moved into one CRM.

    22,921 rows

    Collected, cleaned, enriched from public data and sorted, with history intact. Nothing deleted.

    Post-show reportWorking build

    Internal tool

    A live copilot for discovery calls.

    Listen. Don't type.

    • Listens alongside the call.
    • Flags automation signals as they're spoken.
    • Prompts for the missing numbers, writes the debrief.

    The rundown.

    How working together goes, start to finish. You see what the work costs you before you see what the fix costs.

    CueWhat happensHow longYou getCost
    1 Price your queue. Use the calculator, or just bring one task. 2 min Your number. Free
    2 Walk through your queue. You bring one task. I ask how often, how long, who does it and what happens after. 30 min, on video What it costs you a year, and a straight answer on whether it's worth automating. Free
    3 Systems Audit. I map where your team works by hand and find what's costing you the most. 5 business days A written plan of what to fix first, with the hours and dollars each fix gives back. Quoted on the call
    4 System Build. I scope, build and ship one system for one bottleneck. Under 2 weeks, first call to working software Working software, in production. Quoted on the call
    5 It runs. The cue fires on its own. A person on your team approves anything that matters. Every day after The hours back. GO
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    Not sure where to start? That's what the call is for.

    House rules.

    A theatre cue-light box on a backstage wall, the amber lamp lit and the green lamp waiting.

    1. Nothing leaves the building without a yes.

      Anything that sends, spends or deletes waits for a person.

    2. If a checklist can't describe it, a person keeps it.

      Software takes the decisions that fit on a checklist. Judgment stays with your team.

    3. Narrow beats clever.

      One job, on a schedule, writing to one place, with a plan for the day it breaks.

    4. Kill what nobody uses.

      Zero use is an answer. I turn things off as readily as I build them.

    5. You see the math before the price.

      Every build is priced against the hours it gives back. You see that number first, in writing.

    6. Done means it ran.

      It's done when it has run on schedule, unattended, and you saw the result without going to look for it.

    An empty theatre stage at night, lit only by a single ghost light.

    Who's calling the show.

    I'm Andre Shonubi. I've been writing software for 12 years, most recently at one of the biggest video game companies in the world, leading engineering teams on ecommerce and network services. At that scale, software has to run every time.

    I'm also a partner at a live-event production company, where I run show technology. Live shows taught me the rule I build by: anything that has to happen on time gets a cue, and anything that matters gets a person on the call.

    codedre is where the two meet. I find the work your team repeats by hand, build the software that runs it, and ship it to production. My own three businesses run on an agent team, and nothing goes out without my OK. You work with me the whole way.

    Andre ShonubiBased in Maryland. Working with teams anywhere.

    The 15-second version. No sound.

    Notes from the booth.

    Short essays on finding the work worth automating, and keeping people on the call.

    1. 5 min readTen questions that find the work worth automatingThe checklist I run on every first call. Run it on your own week.
    2. 4 min readThe work that grows every time you hireSome tasks scale with the business. Others scale with headcount.
    3. 4 min readNothing leaves the building without a yesHow I run eight agents without letting any of them send an email on its own.
    4. 3 min readKill the automation nobody usesZero form submissions is an answer. Narrow beats clever.

    Before you call.

    Do I need to know what to automate first?

    No. Bring the task that annoys you most. Finding the one that costs the most is what the audit is for.

    What does it cost?

    It depends on what the work costs you now. On the call I put a number on your manual work. The build is priced against what it saves you in the first year, and the audit fee counts toward it. You see both numbers in writing before you agree to anything.

    Does it have to be AI?

    No. The work is finding the pain and fixing it. Sometimes that's an AI agent. Sometimes it's a script, a form that fills itself, or one spreadsheet instead of two.

    Will this replace people on my team?

    It takes the copying off someone's desk. The goal is that your next hire does work that needs a person, instead of the re-keying that grew with headcount.

    Who checks what the software produces?

    A person. On the water utility plans, someone still reviews every plan. Anything that leaves your building waits for a yes.

    What do you build with?

    Whatever fits the job. I pick the stack per project and build on the tools your team already uses where I can.

    Who do I actually work with?

    Me. I've been shipping production software for 12 years. I run the call, scope the work, build it and ship it.

    Your cue.

    Bring the task that eats the most hours. That's what the call is for.

    Book a call Free, 30 min

    Or email andre@codedre.com