"Our processes are a mess" and "I cannot see our numbers" sound like the same complaint, and they are not. The first is an operations problem, the second is a reporting problem. Automating a process you cannot measure is expensive guesswork — which is why, for most founders, visibility is the cheaper first move.
What Flow.digital says it does
Flow.digital describes itself as business process and workflow automation consultants: they audit your tech stack, choose the right tools, and implement automations across them, with ongoing support and optimisation. The pain they name is familiar — apps that promised to simplify things and instead added bugs and tab-switching, tools whose features nobody has time to learn. Real work, but it starts with an audit and it changes the tools your team uses every day.
What Sumzee does
Sumzee does not touch your workflows and does not ask your team to learn anything. It takes the exports you already produce — bank, invoicing, payroll, whatever the spreadsheets hold — consolidate them into one base with consistent categories and one reporting currency, and build the dashboard that answers cash, runway, margin and collections. €2,500 for the first version, delivered in 48 hours on sample data.
| Flow.digital | Sumzee | |
|---|---|---|
| Problem solved | Manual work and disconnected tools | Numbers scattered across files, no single view |
| Deliverable | Automations across your stack, plus support | One source of truth and one finance dashboard |
| Change to your tools | Yes, that is the point | None — Sumzee reads what you already export |
| Team retraining | New flows to adopt | Nothing to learn: one screen you open |
| Time to first result | Discovery, audit, then implementation | 48 hours to a working first version on sample data |
| Price visibility | Scoped per engagement | €2,500 upfront, ~€700/month ongoing |
Why start with the dashboard
- It is faster: two days to a result versus an audit cycle.
- It is cheaper, and the price is on the website before you talk to anyone.
- It is zero-disruption. Nobody changes how they work while the dashboard is built.
- It tells you what to automate. Once you can see that DSO is 61 days and one client is half the overdue balance, the automation brief writes itself — and you may find you do not need one.
- It compounds: the base Sumzee builds is the clean data layer any later automation would have needed anyway.
The honest overlap
Automation and reporting meet at data quality. An automation consultant cleans up how records get created; a dashboard shows what those records add up to. If your invoicing is late because a human forgets, automate it. If your invoicing is late because nobody can see which clients are 45 days overdue, a dashboard fixes it in a week for less money.
Plenty of teams end up doing both, in that order: see the numbers first, then automate the process the numbers proved was broken.
