Adrienn Volcz

She came on in August with a folder full of signed tax returns and a wish to stop sorting them by hand. Six weeks later her agents were running on a computer in her house.

Every signed return, sorted by hand. The first plan her agent made picked two of her folders and missed the rest, so she corrected it point by point. By her next visit it had moved about 300 documents into the right client folders.

The signed documents go to my Dropbox, under HelloSign. From that folder I would like to move them to the client folder. Individual clients are in Dropbox, business clients in OneDrive.

In between she built something on her own: a check of a client’s quarterly spreadsheet against her books. It found payments that had never been recorded.

It would have taken me three hours, and it did it in twenty minutes.

A bill of 250 dollars a month. Next was signing. The plan she was about to buy cost about 250 dollars a month and stopped at 50 documents. She signs around 200. So she asked her agent to argue against her own choice and find something cheaper. It came back with DocuSeal, at 20 dollars a month and 20 cents a signature, and inside two hours she was signing a test document on her phone. The time tracking did not work, and it went on the list for another try.

A laptop that goes to sleep. Her automations lived on her laptop, and when the laptop was off, they did not run. So she asked her agent which computer to buy, bought it, and fitted the memory herself. She carried the box downstairs, and it came up first time.

The router was another story. Nobody remembered its password, so reaching the machine from outside the house waits for another night.

Where she is nowTwenty three projects live on the machine at home, and it never sleeps. Her phone reaches it, and her laptop can close whenever she likes. Her new website is live on her own domain.