Helpful Donkey
Got a pile of it?
Custom software, automation, and AI tools for small business.
Spreadsheets. PDFs. Emails. Forms. Data. Repetitive computer work. Systems that don't talk to each other. Awkward workflows. Things someone repeats every week for no good reason.
Don't give yourself a headache trying to sort it all yourself. There's no need for that silliness. Helpful Donkey builds small software, automation, and AI tools that make annoying work easier.
How the pile gets carried
Six things Donkey does with a mess.
We don't promise everything can be automated. We do promise to tell you honestly which parts of your pile can be.
Gather
Collect information from forms, files, email, spreadsheets, APIs, or scattered systems.
Sort
Classify, clean, organize, summarize, transform, or route information.
Connect
Make systems that don't talk to each other talk to each other.
Automate
Remove the repetitive manual steps nobody remembers signing up for.
Make Beautiful
Turn messy data and processes into dashboards, reports, sites, and tools people actually enjoy using.
Build
Create small custom applications and internal tools when off-the-shelf software falls short.
True story
Two tangled half-finished setups, a build that wouldn't run, and a domain pointed at the wrong thing.
→
A live site, a working intake form, and a real email landing in an inbox. One evening. Donkey's first job was carrying his own mess.
Real piles, already carried
Before Helpful Donkey had a name, this was already the work.
Built for 8DHypnosis.com, among others.
Website Migration
Moved a real business's site off a legacy platform without breaking the pages and SEO history that already worked.
Custom CRM
Built lead tracking inside tools a small team already used, instead of forcing a move to enterprise software nobody wanted to learn.
Custom Email Systems
Automated campaign creation, audience segmentation, and safe-send guardrails, so one person can run real email marketing alone.
Web Publishing Systems
Built the pipeline itself: content goes in once and comes out formatted correctly everywhere it needs to live.
Let's see what you've got.
Tell Donkey about the pile. We'll take a look and figure out whether we're the right donkey for the job.