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Leapfrog Automation builds bespoke operating platforms, workflow automation and practical AI for Western Australian businesses — delivered in weeks, not quarters, and owned outright by you.
Everyone says you should be automating. Nobody says where to start
Most businesses aren't behind because they've made bad decisions. They're behind because the work never stops long enough to fix the plumbing. Meanwhile the cost of not fixing it compounds quietly.
Software you rent, that half fits
Per-seat subscriptions billed forever for features nobody opens, while the one process that actually defines your business isn't supported and never will be.
Systems that refuse to talk
Clients in one app, jobs in another, documents in email, and a spreadsheet holding it together. Every handover between them is done by a person, by hand, twice.
Skilled hours spent on admin
Re-keying data, chasing paperwork, rebuilding the same report each month. Work a well-designed system does silently, at three in the morning, for nothing.
One platform, shaped around how you actually work
The flagship is a custom operating platform — the system your business would have built for itself, given a full-time engineer. Everything around it exists so the platform doesn't sit on an island.
Custom operating platforms
Clients, jobs, costing, approvals, documents and reporting in one system built to your workflow and your terminology — not a vendor's idea of your industry.
AI that earns its place
AI that does work rather than chats about it: drafting scope, extracting dates and terms from contracts, summarising threads, triaging enquiries — measured on hours returned.
Email, devices & security done properly
Company email on your own web address — Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, whichever fits how you work — sign-in that needs more than a password, managed encrypted devices, a shared drive people can find things in, and backup that has actually been restore-tested.
Integration between what you already run
Accounting, mail, calendars, document stores and line-of-business tools wired together properly, so a record entered once appears everywhere it belongs.
Workflow streamlining
Before a line is written, we map how the work moves today and find the double-handling. Sometimes the answer is a build. Often it's a change nobody had time to notice.
Websites & digital footprint
A credible place for referrals to land, enquiries that flow straight into the platform, and the search foundations that make a local business findable.
Build what should be built. Buy what should be bought
Custom development is right where your process is distinctive, or where the compliance regime is too local for a vendor to have bothered with. It is wrong for solved problems. An honest advisor tells you which is which — including when the answer is "keep paying for that one".
Where custom pays for itself
- Your distinctive workflow — the sequence that makes you competitive, contained exactly and nothing else.
- Local compliance obligations — WA-specific rules mainstream vendors skip because the market is too small to justify the work.
- Field and offline use — capture that works with no reception and syncs when it returns.
- Records that file themselves — correspondence and documents attaching to the right job automatically.
Where rebuilding would be vanity
- Accounting and payroll — a compliant general ledger costs many times what rebuilding it would ever save.
- Email, calendars and sign-in — Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace both do this better than any custom build; you keep whichever your team already knows.
- Cloud hosting — usage-priced servers in Australian data centres, on your own account.
- Specialist industry tools — where a mature product genuinely leads, the platform integrates with it instead of pretending.
Three questions, three pages
The claims above are cheap to make. Each one gets its own page, in enough detail to hold it to account.
Value in week one. A platform in three.
The phases in order, what each one delivers, what stopping at any boundary leaves you holding — and what all of it costs.
See the process Has it worked before?Built where regulators watch.
A named case study you can open and inspect, and six engagements from sectors where the audit trail is the product.
See the track record Whose is it, really?Yours. Provably.
Every account in your name, break-glass credentials in your safe, and removing Leapfrog is one action on your side. The architecture, drawn.
See the architectureThe questions worth asking first
Often you should, and you'll be told so. Off-the-shelf wins on solved problems — accounting, email, hosting. It loses when the process that makes you competitive isn't supported, when your local compliance obligations aren't automated, or when you're paying per seat for a product your team uses a third of. If a subscription is the right answer for you, that is a cheaper and faster recommendation to make than a build.
No. AI is applied where it measurably returns hours — extracting terms from documents, drafting first-pass content, triaging enquiries, summarising long threads — and left out where it would be decoration. A significant share of the value in most engagements comes from unglamorous plumbing: making two systems talk so nobody types the same thing twice.
Timelines, pricing and what happens when software breaks have their own page: how it works. What you end up owning has another: ownership.
Bring the problem. The first conversation is free.
No pitch deck, no pressure. Describe how the work moves through your business today and you'll get an honest answer about what's worth building, what's worth buying, and what isn't worth doing at all.
Build dates are booked ahead. The earlier the conversation, the earlier the calendar can hold one.