ErgoLabsProcess automation for growing businesses
Manual work ⊃ automated process.
ErgoLabs helps growing businesses trade manual work for automated workflows.
Without a ground-up rebuild of how the business runs.
A closer look
One invoice, start to finish
- vendor
- Nordic Timber Co.
- invoice_no
- INV-04231
- total
- € 2,140.00
- due
- 2026-09-30
A PDF lands in a folder, triggers a workflow that reads it, and all important information gets extracted — invoice number, vendor, totals, due date, whatever the business actually needs downstream.
No re-typing
The fields on the left are read straight off the PDF, not copied by hand into a spreadsheet.
The format is yours
The output shape is configurable per document type — invoices, purchase orders, intake forms.
Inspectable by design
Every step of this pipeline is a workflow your own team can open and edit.
Why ErgoLabs
Growing businesses deserve their time back.
Most small and mid-sized businesses do not run on paper because it is efficient — they run on paper because nobody has had the time to fix it. Invoices get scanned and re-typed by hand. Approvals happen over email threads nobody can find again. The business grows, but the process holding it together does not.
ErgoLabs exists to close that gap — not by replacing how you work, but by automating the exact handoffs that quietly cost time and attention. We take on a small number of businesses at a time, and build around whichever process is actually slowing you down, not a generic “digital transformation” roadmap.
A note on the name: ergo — therefore — and ⊃, the sign for “implies.” We think about automation the same way: name the actual chain of cause and effect in a process, then build exactly that.
How we work
A three-step process, every time.
Assess
Map the real paper trail — which documents, which handoffs, where responsibility quietly gets lost.
Automate
Build a working pipeline for the highest-friction step first, usually document intake and data capture.
Hand off
Leave the team with something they can run and adjust themselves, on infrastructure they control.
What we are building
Automation that fits the business, not a generic template.
Growing businesses do not need to rebuild how they operate to go digital — they need whichever process is actually slowing them down automated, in a way that fits how the business runs today.
Document Digitization
A working pipeline that takes a PDF in, reads the text on it, and turns it into structured data ready for the tools you already use — invoices, forms, contracts, whatever a business currently re-types by hand.
No manual re-typing — the extracted fields feed straight into the tools you already use.
How does it work? →Built Around Your Process
Not every bottleneck looks like an invoice. If there is a manual task slowing your team down — data entry, approvals, reporting, anything repetitive — you can ask us to scope and build the automation for it, sized to how your business actually runs and ready to grow with it.
About ErgoLabs
Open, European, and yours to run yourself.
We work with both conventional automation and AI-based tools, and default to open-source and European options wherever they get the job done — n8n for workflows, Mistral for AI. That keeps your data inside the EU, keeps you GDPR-compliant by default, and means nothing you rely on depends on a vendor you cannot leave.
If a process genuinely needs something more specialized, we will say so plainly — including when the right answer is the boring, non-AI option that will not break in six months.
Have a process that has outgrown paper?
Tell us what is still done by hand — we will tell you honestly whether it is worth automating first.