Andrew Mitchell

About

I help small businesses stop drowning in manual work.

I’m a fractional technical consultant for small businesses and solo founders — the person you bring in when your operation has outgrown manual processes but isn’t big enough for a full engineering team.

What I take on.

Three things that usually get sold separately. In practice they’re inseparable — you get a coherent system instead of a pile of disconnected tools.

Process automation

Replacing the spreadsheets, copy-paste, and good intentions with workflows that run on their own. n8n, Airtable, and the integration layer that ties everything together.

e.g. invoicing, intake, ops handoffs

AI integration

LLM-powered tools that actually do something useful — scoped, observable, with a kill switch. The kind of AI feature that depends on the data and systems feeding it.

e.g. support triage, content drafting, agents

Full-stack development

When automation and AI aren’t enough, real code. Internal dashboards, customer portals, lightweight ERP-style systems. Built so you can run them without me.

e.g. ops dashboard, customer portal, ERP-lite

How I work.

  1. 01
    I start with the business, not the build.Before I write a line of code, I want to understand how your operation actually works, where the friction is, and what’s worth automating versus what isn’t.
  2. 02
    You get all three skills from one person.Automation, AI, and full-stack — not three specialists with three Slack channels. The work is more coherent because the person doing it can hold it all in their head.
  3. 03
    You’ll understand what I built and why.I spent years as an educator before going technical. Every project ends with docs, a runbook, and a walkthrough — not a black box.
  4. 04
    Fixed scope, fixed price.We agree the shape of the thing before I start building. Day rates lie about both sides.

Hire

Got a process that shouldn’t take this much human effort?

That’s exactly the kind of problem I like to solve. Tell me the messy version — I’ll write back with three options.