Automation & AI Workflows
BBN Labs automates the repetitive work that eats small-business weeks. Think appointment reminders, review requests, lead routing and quote follow-ups. We also wire up email and SMS sequences, order notifications, form-to-spreadsheet pipelines, inventory alerts and reporting dashboards. Where AI genuinely helps (FAQ chatbots, document workflows), we scope it carefully. Practical wiring, documented and owned by you.
What you get
- Lead capture and routing automation
- Quote and enquiry follow-up sequences
- Appointment reminders and confirmation flows
- Review-request automation tied to real visits
- Email/SMS sequences with compliant consent
- Customer onboarding and order notifications
- Form-to-spreadsheet and system-to-system integrations
- FAQ chatbots and internal knowledge-base assistants where apt
- Dashboards and scheduled reports
- Documentation so the automation isn't a black box
What it fixes
- Leads arrive at midnight and get answered Thursday
- Quotes go out and nobody follows up
- The same five questions interrupt the counter all day
- Month-end reporting means an evening of copy-paste
Process
How a project runs
01
Find the hours: where repetitive work actually burns time
02
Automate the highest-payback flows first
03
Test with real scenarios; add guardrails
04
Train the team; document every flow
05
Quarterly review, because automations rot without maintenance
Funding categories that may relate
The honest read on funding
Automation projects can fit the digital-adoption grants several provinces run. In Ontario, for example, one program funds the plan and a second helps fund the work itself. The fit depends on scoping the work as part of a qualifying project, subject to program rules and approval.
See the funding we track for upgrades like this, coast to coast →
Canada Small Business Financing Program
Up to $1,000,000
This program makes it easier to get a business loan by having the government share the lending risk with your bank or credit union. You apply…
Last verified July 2, 2026
BDC Financing — Start-up
Up to $150,000
BDC Start-up Financing provides the capital you need to turn your business plan into reality. Use these funds to purchase essential assets, cover…
Last verified July 2, 2026
BDC Financing — Equipment Purchase Loan
Up to 125% of costs
Secure the machinery, vehicles, or tech you need to scale operations. BDC offers flexible loan terms including interest-only periods and long…
Last verified July 2, 2026
Packages
Bundled ways to buy this
Retail Modernization Package
Store technology that knows your customers and saves your staff hours every week.
Modern retail tools should remove work. Too many add it. This package starts with a needs assessment, then implements only what fits your store: customer database, loyalty, review collection, ordering or booking, and inventory tools where they make sense. Everything is documented and your staff are trained before the project is called done, which also leaves you a clean file if a retail technology program is worth applying to.
Package details →Staff Training & Adoption Package
Technology your team actually uses, with hands-on training and follow-up support.
Technology only pays for itself when staff use it. This package assesses where your team gets stuck, builds plain-language guides and cheat sheets, runs hands-on sessions for the tools you own, and follows up after launch to confirm the new habits stick.
Package details →Industries
Who asks for this most
Frequently asked questions
Is an AI chatbot right for my business?
Only if it answers real questions accurately and hands off to a human gracefully. A bad bot is worse than none. We scope chatbots around your actual FAQ traffic, keep them honest about what they don't know, and measure whether they're actually deflecting interruptions before calling it a win.
What happens to the automations if we stop working with you?
They're built in your accounts with documentation you keep. We're deliberately not a hostage-ware shop. The work survives the relationship.
Related solutions
Loyalty Programs & CRM
Know your customers and bring them back: databases, loyalty mechanics, email/SMS and gift cards that fit your counter.
Retail Modernization
Retail technology that works as one system: POS, inventory, CRM, loyalty, ordering and dashboards that talk to each other.
Cybersecurity & Privacy Readiness
Two-factor logins, backups, access control, email security and privacy basics: the unglamorous work that keeps you in business.
Manufacturing & B2B Systems
Catalogues, dealer portals, quote workflows and dashboards that drag B2B sales out of the fax era.
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