LDautomation is a one-person AI and automation practice run by a civil engineer who spent years fixing this exact problem from the inside — and now does it for other UK businesses.
Founder & Automation Engineer · Leicestershire
I'm a civil and drainage engineer by trade. For years I worked in UK property and construction — an industry that runs on spreadsheets, email chains and manual admin — and I watched capable people lose hours every week to work that software should have been doing for them.
So I started automating it. First my own workflows — trackers, reporting, document handling, approvals — then more of the processes around me. The more I built, the clearer it became that the tools (Power Automate, the Power Platform, Python and now AI) could take a huge amount of the manual load off almost any business. LDautomation is where I do that for others.
Automation isn't really a software problem — it's a process problem. Engineers are trained to break a messy real-world system into steps, find where it fails, and design something reliable that holds up in the field. That's exactly what a good automation needs.
Microsoft Power Automate, Power Apps and Power BI; SharePoint and Microsoft 365; Python for the heavier lifting; and AI agents built on Claude and OpenAI — plus fast, modern websites. I pick the right tool for the job and I'll tell you honestly when something shouldn't be automated.
Property developers, construction and trades firms, professional-services businesses and SMEs across Leicester, Leicestershire and the wider UK — usually operations people who know they're losing time to manual admin but don't have an in-house expert to fix it. Remote-first, so location's no barrier.
Every engagement starts with a free automation audit and ends with a working, documented system you own outright. Fixed prices agreed up front, no lock-in, and honest advice throughout.