Runless

Runless AS · Software & automation

Please do less.

Runless builds software that takes repetitive work off people. Small tools for the errands everyone has to run, and automation for the businesses those errands pile up in.

Queue 1 of 1 · manualRemaining07
  1. 01Retype the invoice into the other system
  2. 02Send the signed form, again
  3. 03Copy 200 rows into a spreadsheet
  4. 04Rename the files by hand
  5. 05Chase the receipt
  6. 06Answer the email you answered last week
  7. 07Look up the same record twice

Handover in progress.

Notice — work removed from a person is not returned to that person.

§ 01 — Divisions

Two kinds of work.

For people

Tools

Small pieces of software that do one ordinary thing without asking you to learn anything first. Sending a document. Making a code. Looking something up. You arrive with an errand and leave without it.

  • One job each
  • No manual, no onboarding
  • Plain prices, plainly stated
  • Each lives at its own address

For businesses

Automation

Companies run on people carrying information between systems that were never introduced to each other. We map the carrying, then hand it to software and AI that does it the same way every time — and says so out loud when it cannot.

  • Process mapping
  • Software for the steps
  • AI where judgment is needed
  • Reporting that admits failure

§ 02 — Method

Four steps, then we go.

  1. 01

    Observe

    We watch the work as it is actually done, which is rarely how the process document describes it.

  2. 02

    Reduce

    Anything that repeats becomes software. Anything that needs judgment stays with the person who has it.

  3. 03

    Verify

    Automation that fails quietly is worse than none. Every process reports what it did and what it refused to do.

  4. 04

    Withdraw

    We leave. The work keeps happening without us, and without you. That is the whole job.

§ 03 — The name

Run less.

A promise, first. The people who use our software run less: fewer steps, fewer forms, fewer trips across town for a signature. The errand still happens. It just stops happening to you.

A confession, second. We would rather build a thing once than do it forever. Laziness, applied with enough discipline, turns out to be an engineering method.

§ 04 — Contact

Tell us what you keep doing by hand.

If a task in your week has a rhythm to it, it can probably be handed over. Write to us about the task, not the technology — we will work out what it needs.

hello@runless.co