Managed automations · from $149 a month
These are not templates you install. Each one runs on my infrastructure, tuned to how you write, and hands you finished work to approve. Same arrangement as a custom Roux build — the difference is that this one already exists, so it costs a fraction and starts next week.
How it goes
A short call, or just an email. Most people already know the answer — it is whatever they dread opening on a Monday.
Onboarding takes a week. I feed it how you actually write, run it against your real backlog, and correct it until what it produces is something you would have sent.
From then on the work arrives finished. You open a queue, read, and click. Nothing reaches a customer that you did not see first.
It is hosted on my infrastructure and monitored by me. When something breaks it is my problem before it is yours, and it improves every month rather than rotting.
The catalog
3 are running today and can be set up this week. The rest are specified and ready to build — tell me which one you want and it moves to the front of the queue, because demand is how I decide what gets built next.
Every new enquiry gets a real reply within minutes, in your words.
The call you could not take gets a text before they call someone else.
Job details in, a professional quote out, same day.
Know which leads deserve the phone call before you make it.
Fewer no-shows, without anyone remembering to send reminders.
Overdue invoices get chased politely, on schedule, without you.
Supplier invoices become clean rows instead of a folder of PDFs.
Receipts sorted into your accounts as they arrive, not at year end.
A shared inbox that arrives sorted, with the replies already written.
Every review answered, including the ones you are dreading.
Ask for the review while the job is still fresh in their mind.
Reach the customers who quietly stopped coming back.
One piece of work becomes a week of posts.
Posts that sound like you, from a photo and a sentence.
Your draft, tightened, with subject lines worth testing.
A publishable first draft from a topic and your voice.
Who agreed to do what, extracted from the recording.
One email that tells you what today actually looks like.
Catches the promise you made in an email and forgot by Friday.
The key terms and the clauses worth a second look.
The part that matters
Everything here was built in advance, which is the only reason it costs $149 instead of several thousand. What you pay for monthly is unchanged from any other Roux engagement: I run it, I watch it, and I keep making it better.
There is nothing to install, no account to configure, and no template to adapt. The comparison is not a tool you have to operate — it is a person you would otherwise have to hire.
Hosting, monitoring, retries, and the bill for the model are all mine. If a run fails at three in the morning, I am the one who finds out.
The first fortnight is correction. You mark what it got wrong, and it stops getting that wrong. This is the part a downloaded template can never do.
Every automation writes a draft and stops. Auto-sending on your behalf is how businesses end up apologising to customers for a message they never read.
Pricing · USD
Every automation costs the same, so choosing between them is a question of what would help most rather than what you can justify.
Pick the single job that costs you the most time. Most people start with the inbox.
Where most businesses land. Three automations covering one whole part of the operation.
Every automation in a category, running together. The point where the admin load visibly drops.
Setup is $499 once. That covers connecting everything, running the automation against your real backlog, and the fortnight of correction it takes to sound like you. If it is not right by the end of the first month, you have not paid for a second one and the setup fee comes back.
Questions
A template is a file you now have to operate, debug, and pay a model provider for. This is the opposite arrangement: it runs on my infrastructure, I pay for the model, and when it misbehaves I fix it without you filing anything. You are renting the outcome, not acquiring a tool.
No. Onboarding works by forwarding — you set one rule so a copy of the relevant mail reaches Roux, and replies go out signed as your own domain. There is nothing to install, and no permissions to hand over to a third-party app.
Like you, after the first fortnight of correction. That tuning period is the actual product; the automation underneath is the easy part. If it still does not sound like you at the end of the first month, you have not paid for a second.
You catch it, because you approve everything before it leaves. That is the entire reason for the approval step. Corrections feed back in, so a mistake is a one-time cost rather than a recurring one.
Any month, and the first one is free if it has not earned its place. No contract, no notice period, no per-seat arithmetic.
Then the pre-built line is the wrong thing for you, and I will say so. Custom builds start at $3,000 a month and begin with a free audit — that is the original Roux engagement, and it is still the better answer for anything genuinely specific to how you work.
Tell me what it is on a call. If one of these fixes it you will know inside twenty minutes — and if none of them do, I will tell you that too.