The risk is not that your team can automate something useful. The risk is that nobody owns what happens after it starts being relied on.
Repetitive work eats hours every week. The same task gets done differently depending on who's doing it, so quality and results vary. And when the business grows, both problems get bigger before anyone has time to fix them. Left ungoverned, a fast-built automation becomes an unmonitored, unpatched liability sitting quietly inside your business. Governed properly, the same automation becomes an asset that strengthens your Technology Resilience Score with every process you bring under it.
The LBT Efficiency Engine gives your team the structure to automate repetitive work and standardise inconsistent processes without creating hidden technical debt. We provide the framework, guidance and integration layer up front, then deploy, monitor, maintain and support every app once it's ready to run. Your team gets more done with who they already have. We make sure what gets built is secure, integrated, resilient and properly managed.
Off-the-shelf gets you close — your team can automate the rest
Most platforms force you to bend your process to fit theirs. That trade-off used to be unavoidable — building your own meant a digital agency, a lengthy build, and ongoing cost every time you wanted to change it.
Tools like Claude have collapsed the cost and speed of automating exactly the process you need fixed — your own team can now build it. What hasn't changed is everything that comes after: deploying it properly, securing it, integrating it, and keeping it alive. That's the part the LBT Efficiency Engine exists to cover.
Built the way we build for ourselves
This isn't theory. Our own lead-generation assessment tool, our quoting tool, our client TRS tracker and our delivery dashboard are all small, single-feature apps, built exactly this way, running today. Each one automates or standardises one job well, connects to our systems through one integration layer, and gets maintained under the same discipline we're offering you. We productised the Efficiency Engine that already works for us.
How the Efficiency Engine works
Build rules, not just good intentions
Architectural guardrails that keep every app small, single-feature, and scoped to one clear job, flagging scope creep before it happens.
Secure by default
Every app follows a security standard aligned to your Technology Resilience Score, covering access control, hosting, secrets, monitoring, backup and operational ownership — not bolted on afterwards.
Brand and business context
Guidance that keeps every app on-brand and aligned to how your business actually operates, not a generic tool wearing your logo.
One integration layer
The backbone connecting every app to your existing tools — HubSpot, Pipedrive, Microsoft 365 and more — so complexity is managed once, not app by app.
What your fixed monthly fee covers
Architecture guidance — hosting platform selection, environment design, scalability and security architecture for every app on the framework
Deployment — pipelines, environment configuration and release execution from your repositories to your hosting platforms (Vercel, Render, AWS and more)
Monitoring — availability, platform health and resource monitoring across your estate, with proactive alerting and response
Troubleshooting — platform, DNS, certificate, configuration and resource issues, always included, no usage limits
Weekly touchpoints (2×) — two structured sessions every week to review progress, plan releases and keep your roadmap moving
Integration layer management — kept live, monitored and working as you add apps
Claude Skills — AI guardrails deployed straight into your team’s Claude environment: a Builder skill that keeps every app on-architecture, and a Brand skill that keeps every output on-brand
You own everything. We run everything.
Your code stays in your GitHub. Your apps run in your hosting accounts. Your data never leaves your control. You grant us access; we deliver the framework, the platform and the accountability behind it. No lock-in, no migration risk — if you ever walked away, you'd walk away with a working estate, not a hostage.
What this is — and what it isn't
This is a new category, so let's be precise about it before you look at pricing.
The maths of scale
Most application estates get more expensive and more fragile with every addition. Ours does the opposite — the complexity is managed once, in the integration layer, so your cost per app falls as your estate grows.
3 apps
£2,950/month
£983 / app / month
10 apps
£4,700/month
£470 / app / month
Compare that to hiring part-time DevOps support directly — before recruitment, management overhead, and the risk of one person holding all the knowledge.
Important: the LBT Efficiency Engine is delivered alongside LBT managed IT support. If you're not already an LBT client, we'll include that transition as part of scoping it — so before you compare the figures below to a standalone SaaS tool or a single support contract, know that they sit within your wider managed service relationship with us.
Investment
Deployment troubleshooting is covered by a generous fair usage allowance; all other troubleshooting is unlimited. Platform costs — hosting, GitHub seats — are billed directly to you by the providers, full transparency, no markup.
Frequently asked questions
See If The Efficiency Engine Is Right For You
Not ready to commit to the full Efficiency Engine? Start smaller. Book the one-day, on-site Efficiency Engine Workshop (£2,500 one-off) and automate a single real process with your own team, live, using Claude — no ongoing commitment required.
On-site, with your team
Not just leadership — the people who’ll actually use what gets built, in the room while it’s built.
One real process, properly scoped
A quote, a form, a tracker — defined before anything gets built, following the same architecture, security and brand guardrails that sit behind the full Efficiency Engine.
A working first version by the end of the day
Standalone, scoped tightly, and usable enough to prove the value. Where the process is more complex, the outcome is a validated prototype, a deployment plan and clear next steps.
A clear-eyed view of what’s next
Whether automating this one process is enough on its own, or the first of many worth bringing under the Efficiency Engine.
No obligation to continue. If the workshop proves the value, moving into the full Efficiency Engine is a simple next step — your first process is already shaped and ready to deploy.