Capture and qualify opportunities
Build useful lead capture, enrichment, routing, and follow-up systems so valuable opportunities do not disappear between tools or team members.
Practical AI automation for real business workflows
Automate repetitive work, connect the systems your team already uses, and ship useful internal tools without traditional agency overhead.
Based in Tempe and available to businesses anywhere, selected AI-native students and recent grads build inside a senior-managed delivery process covering architecture, review, and quality.
What we can build
Make your CRM drive the next action
Connect relationship data, communication, and follow-up rules so the team knows who needs attention and what should happen next.
Remove repetitive coordination
Replace manual scheduling, quoting, reporting, and handoffs with focused tools that fit the way your team already works.
Turn business knowledge into a workflow
Use documents, calls, spreadsheets, and internal knowledge to support narrowly defined tasks without forcing the team into another generic platform.
- Lead capture, qualification, and follow-up
- CRM and relationship-management workflows
- Scheduling, coordination, and accountability tools
- Reporting and operational dashboards
- Document and knowledge workflows
- Custom web and desktop applications
Start with an AI Agent Readiness Audit
Choose one public customer journey or internal workflow. We examine whether an AI agent can understand the business, use the available information, and reach a useful human or system action.
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See the evidence
Get a bounded readiness assessment showing what an agent can understand today and exactly where the journey breaks down.
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Prioritize the fixes
Separate high-value improvements from speculative AI ideas using business value, effort, risk, and existing-system constraints.
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Define the first build
Turn the strongest opportunity into a practical implementation plan that Automation Interns can scope and build with you.
How delivery works
01
15-minute intro call ($0)
Tell us what eats your team's time. We'll tell you straight if AI can fix it.
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30-minute scope call ($0)
Deep dive on your problems. We pick the highest-ROI 2-week deliverable, explain the outcome, and send you a proposal.
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One-week sprints
A junior engineer builds, a senior engineer reviews. 30-minute weekly demo calls and 24/7 support.
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Handoff. You own it.
We hand you the finished system and train you on AI if you want. No licensing fees.
Shipped for real businesses
Real Estate Outreach Team
AI Voicemail Dialer
A Salesforce Lightning Web Component dialer with AI-generated voicemail drops, call summarization, sentiment tagging, and one-click follow-up emails drafted from the latest call.
Boutique Investment Bank
Investment Banking CRM
A custom CRM for a boutique investment bank: firm, contact, and deal tracking, cadence-driven follow-ups, tiered pipelines, and a population overview that tells the team exactly who to contact next.
Orthodontic Practice Consultancy
Ortho Auto-Scheduling Tool
An eight-step guided wizard that ingests a practice's procedure export, buckets appointment types, and generates an optimized scheduling template tuned to real historical volume.
Questions businesses ask
What kinds of work can you automate?
Good starting points include repetitive data movement, follow-up, reporting, scheduling, document handling, knowledge lookup, and internal workflows that depend on several disconnected tools.
Who actually builds the project?
A selected AI-native student or recent grad executes the approved plan. Senior engineers own the architecture, manage delivery, review the implementation, and step in whenever deeper technical judgment is required.
Do you only work with Phoenix businesses?
No. Automation Interns is based in Tempe and can work with Phoenix-area teams on-site or serve businesses remotely across the United States.
How does a project start?
Start with one customer journey or internal workflow. The AI Agent Readiness Audit makes the gaps visible, prioritizes the useful fixes, and helps define a practical first implementation.
How do you handle sensitive business data?
Before building, we identify the systems, permissions, and data boundaries involved. The right architecture depends on the workflow, and projects can be scoped around local processing or limited access when the requirements call for it.
How is the work priced?
Every engagement starts with a free 15-minute intro call, then a free 30-minute scope call where we pick the highest-ROI 2-week deliverable and send you a proposal. From there we work in one-week sprints: a junior engineer builds, a senior engineer reviews, and you get a 30-minute demo every week plus 24/7 support. At handoff, you own the finished system outright, with no licensing fees and no long-term commitment.
Ready to automate one workflow?
Tell us which workflow is slowing the team down. We will help turn it into a practical first project.