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.
What a pile actually looks like
Donkey's first job was carrying his own mess.
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.
Ten hours a week retyping the same client details into three different systems by hand.
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One form. It flows to all three on its own.
A spreadsheet nobody quite trusts, because three people edit it by hand.
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A dashboard that's always right, because nobody touches the raw data anymore.
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.