Automate one business workflow: why a flat $3,500 beats a custom quote
Owners do not need an automation platform. They need one named tedious job taken off the week. Here is when a flat One Lane fee is honest — and when it is not.
Most “automation” sales calls try to sell you a platform. You do not have a platform problem. You have one job someone copies every Friday.
That is the whole offer on One Lane: $3,500 once, one named workflow, in the tools you already pay for.
Why a flat fee
If I quote “custom” for every spreadsheet chase, you will stall. A flat number is honest when the scope is one lane. If the job is actually three systems and a rewrite, I will say so and quote the extra. I will not pretend it is still One Lane.
The same number sits on the pricing page. Extra lanes wait until this one is boring.
What counts as one lane
- Invoice follow-up at day 14 and day 21
- A Friday report pulled from two systems
- A form that becomes a CRM row and an owner text
- A renewal or reorder list you already keep by hand
If nobody on your team can name the job in one sentence, we are not ready to automate it.
What this is not
It is not ChatGPT booking. That is Business MCP. It is not answering the phone. It is not a security review of your app.
Buy the page that matches the leak.
FAQ
How much does it cost to automate one business workflow? A single named lane in the tools you already pay for is $3,500 once. Extra lanes are quoted.
Is this the same as Zapier? Zapier is a toolbox. One Lane is the finished job and the runbook. Zapier can still sit underneath.
How is this different from a Business MCP? MCP is for customers talking to ChatGPT. One Lane is the work your staff repeats after the customer exists.
FAQ
How much does it cost to automate one business workflow? +
A single named lane in the tools you already pay for is $3,500 once on this site. Extra lanes are quoted. A company-wide rebuild is a different product.
Is this the same as Zapier? +
Zapier is a toolbox with a monthly bill. One Lane is a finished job in your accounts, with a written runbook. Zapier can still sit underneath.
How is this different from a Business MCP? +
MCP is for customers who already ask ChatGPT who to hire. One Lane is the work your staff repeats after the customer exists — invoices, reports, lists.
