Automation that still works in three months — not just on the day it ships.
Most of the work is n8n and Make.com wired into Claude and the OpenAI API: webhooks in, data cleaned and de-duplicated, the right API called with retry and rate-limit handling, and a sensible branch when a call fails. Anyone can demo a happy path. The dedupe, the error branches, the idempotency, the scheduled runs — those decide whether it’s still standing in three months.
Lead capture and routing, CRM sync, data enrichment, scheduled pipelines. Built in n8n (cloud or self-hosted) and Make.com, plugged into what you already run — WordPress, Pipedrive, Slack, ClickUp, Typeform.
Claude and the OpenAI API doing real work: enrichment, classification, structured extraction over thousands of records. Not chatbot demos — pipelines with token budgets, confidence scoring and output you can validate.
Apify and custom scrapers at six-figure record counts, with the deduplication and schema work that turns a scrape into something searchable rather than a pile of HTML.
When a workflow isn’t enough: Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, Vercel, Python. Whole products shipped solo, front end to database.
A search platform built solo over 145,000+ UK tribunal decisions — employment and EAT rulings plus fitness-to-practise hearings. Scraping layer in Apify, an LLM enrichment pipeline that structures every ruling into searchable fields, Next.js and Supabase front end.
145,000+Decisions, scraped & AI-enrichedAn AI-guided reflective-practice tool for UK clinicians. A structured interview asks the questions a good supervisor would, then produces an audit-ready Word document mapped to regulator standards — NMC, HCPC, GMC, GDC, GOC.
5 regulatorsStandards mapped, audit-ready outputAn automated pipeline that turns still photographs into cinematic vertical video with no manual editing: AI motion, AI voiceover, captions burned in, the whole thing assembled with ffmpeg and rendered unattended.
Zero manual editsStills in, finished video outNearly twenty years in the NHS. When a workflow has to withstand scrutiny, I already know where the risk sits.
Cleddau Automation is founder-led and built solo by Adrian Swales — a frontline paramedic with the Welsh Ambulance Service, a GMB union rep, and for two years, most evenings and weekends, a self-taught engineer.
That combination is the point. Representing colleagues through fitness-to-practise and employment cases means understanding regulated, high-stakes environments from the inside: governance, record-keeping, audit trails, and the real cost of getting it wrong.
You get the person who built it, not an account manager. Give me a gnarly, well-defined problem and I’ll go deep and ship it.
Send me the details and I’ll tell you honestly whether automation is the right call — and how I’d build it. If it isn’t, I’ll say so.
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