Business automation for Miami, Broward and Palm Beach businesses
We build the systems that answer your calls, reply to your leads and chase your invoices, inside the tools you already use. We are based at 275 SW 6th Street, downtown, and a founder works on every job.
The Automation Department is a Miami-based automation firm serving small and mid-sized businesses across the United States. Scoping is free, single automations start at $499, and most go live within 10 business days.
Being local means you can meet the people doing the work, and that shadowing a process can happen in the room rather than over a screen share. It does not mean we only work here. Most delivery is remote.
What a Miami-based team changes for you
Most automation work is location-independent. Three things do change when we are down the road.
- Shadowing can happen in person. The single biggest predictor of an accurate estimate is whether someone watched the work being done. Doing that in the room, with the person who actually runs the process, surfaces more than a scheduled call ever does: the sticky note on the monitor, the second spreadsheet, the customer everyone handles differently.
- You can meet who is doing it. Both of us are named on the site, with our faces and our profiles. A founder scopes and signs off every build, a dedicated account manager handles the day to day, and the team behind them is named from the first call.
- Same time zone, same working day. Eastern time, and a response window that is not overnight. It sounds small, but it matters when a live build needs a quick decision.
What it does not change: the price, the method, or the quality. We work across the US on exactly the same terms.
Miami industries we automate most
These are the four Miami industries we hear from most, and the work worth automating in each.
Trade, freight and logistics
PortMiami and Miami International Airport make this a logistics town, and logistics runs on documents and status updates. The recurring asks are proactive shipment status so customers stop calling to ask, carrier invoice audit, proof-of-delivery capture and matching, and EDI connections to carriers, which are a separate job from a modern API connection and are scoped on their own. See logistics automation.
Real estate and property management
Miami has a dense brokerage and property management market, and the automation that pays back most is almost always speed to lead: portal inquiries and inbound calls routed instantly by area and availability, acknowledged inside a minute. After that, transaction document collection and commission splits. The MLS rules on what may be syndicated and how are a real constraint and need checking before anything is designed. See real estate automation.
Professional services
Agencies, consultancies and engineering practices, where the money leaks between approved time and the invoice going out. Time and expenses pulled into draft invoices on the billing cycle, with the right rates and pass-through costs attached, is the usual first build. See professional services automation.
Restaurants, bars and nightlife
Miami runs late, and so do its inquiries. Table requests, birthday bookings and bottle-service questions arrive by DM and WhatsApp once the floor is already busy, and the venue that answers first usually gets the booking. The work worth automating is one reservation book fed by every channel, deposits and holds on tables and events, promoter guest lists with attribution, and a review request after every visit. See restaurants and nightlife.
Keep your business running in hurricane season
Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30, and for a South Florida business that is a real operational planning question rather than a theoretical one. It is also one of the more legitimate arguments for automating administrative work.
A process that lives in one person's habits stops when that person cannot get to the office or has their own household to deal with. A documented, automated process does not: invoices still go out, inquiries are still acknowledged, collections still chase, and status updates still reach customers. None of this is special hurricane engineering. It is the normal benefit of work that does not depend on someone being at a desk. Storm season just makes it obvious.
Two practical points if this is part of your thinking. Automations running in cloud platforms are unaffected by a local outage, but anything depending on an on-premise machine (a QuickBooks Desktop connector, for instance) is exactly as available as that machine. And alerting needs to reach somebody who is not also without power, which means a named escalation path rather than one person's email.
English and Spanish chat and voice agents
A large share of business in Miami-Dade happens in Spanish, in English, or in both within the same conversation. That matters if you add an AI chat or voice agent.
A chat or voice agent handling both languages is entirely workable, and modern models are good at it. What is not automatic is that it is correct in both. Accuracy has to be measured separately per language, against your own historical cases, because a model can be reliable in one and noticeably weaker in the other on the same task, particularly with local usage and code-switching mid-sentence. That means two evaluation sets rather than one, and it is included rather than an extra.
The same applies to document extraction where suppliers or customers send paperwork in Spanish. It works, but we test it on your real documents first.
How to start: a free 30-minute audit
Scoping is free and carries no commitment. A 30-minute call, then a written proposal within two business days: what we would build, in what order, what it costs and what it costs to run each month. Sometimes the proposal says a process is not worth automating yet, and we will tell you that rather than quote for it. The proposal is yours whether you build with us or not.
From there, single automations have a fixed setup price from $499 and most are running within 10 business days. Packages and plans are on the pricing page, and every price is fixed before work starts.
| Where we are | |
|---|---|
| Address | 275 SW 6th Street, Miami, FL 33130 |
| support@theautomationdepartment.com | |
| Hours | Monday to Friday, Eastern time |
| Area served | Miami and South Florida in person; the United States remotely |
| Who you deal with | Fayez Nicolas Chaar or Kareem Jamal on every build, with a dedicated account manager |
Based in Miami, Broward or Palm Beach?
We will come and watch the process rather than ask you to describe it. Scoping is free and ends in a written proposal.
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You will talk to Fayez or Kareem, the two founders.
