Power Automate Sprint
Three to five workflows automated in two weeks. The processes that run on email, copying-and-pasting, and somebody remembering to do something get turned into proper automated flows with error handling, audit logging, and notifications that route to the right person.
Why mid-market firms still run on manual workflows.
Most firms have ten to twenty processes that run on email, somebody copying-and-pasting between systems, and somebody else remembering to do something. Purchase orders that need three approvals and end up sitting in an inbox for a week. Holiday requests that travel through three forwards before they land. Invoices that get logged in a spreadsheet by hand because nobody got around to connecting the systems. None of these is broken enough to warrant a project; collectively they consume real hours every week and they break when the person who runs them is on leave.
A focused sprint picks the highest-value workflows and automates them properly. Not the most exciting workflows; the ones that produce the most time-back per pound of investment. The discipline of picking three to five and finishing them is the difference between a programme that delivers and one that drifts.
What the sprint covers.
Four workstreams across two weeks, weighted toward the discipline that keeps citizen-developed flows working long after we leave.
1
Discovery & scoring
Long-list of workflows
Time-back scoring
Break-frequency review
Final pick: 3–5
2
Build patterns
Approval routing
Document generation
Data sync
Scheduled reporting
3
Reliability
Error handling + retries
Owner notifications
Audit logging
Monitoring
4
Training & handover
Process owner training
Documentation per flow
Exception handling
30-day support
Deliverables you can hold us to.
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Live Power BI dashboard published in your tenant, on your licences, owned by your business
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Documented inventory of every flow with its purpose, owner, trigger, dependencies, and failure-mode handling
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Monitoring set up so failures notify the right person, not us
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Training for the two nominated process owners covering monitoring, exception handling, and basic edits
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Short list of the next five workflows that would extend the value, prioritised by likely ROI
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30 days of post-go-live support
Mid-market firms running 50 to 500 staff where operational workflows have grown organically and a small set of repetitive tasks is now consuming meaningful time. Especially valuable when finance is doing routine data entry that should be automated, HR is chasing approvals through email, operations leadership knows there is 'waste' in process but cannot point to it specifically, or when a previous Power Automate effort produced flows that broke and have not been touched since.
How it runs.
1
Discovery
Days 1–3. Meet the leads of the functions affected. Score workflows against time-back, break-frequency, and clarity of scope. Agree the final 3–5.
2
Build
Days 4–8. Each flow built with error handling, logging, notifications. Each flow goes through a short user-test cycle before going live.
3
Pilot
Days 9–11. Flows go live with process owners testing on real work. We adjust what surfaces during pilot.
4
Training & handover
Day 12–13. Training session for two process owners; documentation handover; 30-day support window opens.
The price band, and how it lands.
3 simple flows
£2,400
Single-system, single approval chain each
4 mixed flows
£3,800
Mid-complexity, some integration
5 flows + non-MS integration
£5,000
HubSpot / Sage / Xero / Salesforce
5 flows, regulated industry
£6,000
Audit-grade logging requirements
Related work
Often paired with this accelerator.
Common questions.
Why only three to five flows in two weeks? We have twenty things we want automated.
Because we have learned that two-week sprints produce better outcomes than longer programmes. Three to five flows is enough to deliver real value, focused enough to finish on time, and small enough that we can do each one properly. Twenty workflows in twelve weeks is a programme that drifts; four sprints of five workflows is twenty workflows in eight weeks and they all work.
What if a flow we build breaks after you leave?
Three protections. Every flow has error handling and retries, so transient failures recover automatically. Every flow has notifications to a nominated owner, so persistent failures are flagged. The 30-day support window covers any issue that surfaces in the bedding-in period.
Can you integrate with our existing system, not just Microsoft tools?
Yes. Power Automate has connectors for hundreds of business systems including the major accounting, CRM, HR, and operations platforms. For systems without a direct connector we use custom connectors via Azure Functions.
Who decides which workflows to automate?
You do, with our advice. The discovery puts every candidate workflow on the table with our scoring against time-back, complexity, and risk. The senior person commissioning the sprint makes the final call.
Can citizen developers in our team build the next batch themselves?
Yes, and many of our clients take this path. The Power Platform Bootcamp is the natural next step: it trains your team to build the next ten flows themselves while we handle the more complex builds.