Apps Script automation: stop doing it by hand

If a person opens a spreadsheet at the same time every week to do the same sequence of things, that sequence is a script.

Apps Script is the most under-used thing in Google Workspace. It runs on Google's servers for free, it can reach every other Google product and any HTTP API, and it can be put on a timer. Most teams never touch it because writing it well — with error handling, quota awareness and logs you can read six months later — is a different job from recording a macro.

We write scripts that are meant to be inherited. Named functions, a config block at the top so you can change a sheet name without editing code, a log sheet that records what ran and what it touched, and an email alert when something fails instead of silence.

You probably recognise at least one of these

A weekly routine of copy, paste, filter, email, repeat
A script someone left behind that fails silently and nobody can read
Hitting Apps Script's execution time or daily quota limits
Needing data pushed into Sheets from a system with no native connector
Approvals or notifications that depend on someone remembering to look

What you get

Documented Apps Script project with a single configuration block
Time-based or event triggers set up and tested in your account
A run log sheet and failure alerts by email or Slack
Quota-aware batching so the job does not die on a big day
Handover notes covering how to change it without breaking it

How the engagement runs

Map the manual routine

We watch or read through exactly what is done by hand today, including the exceptions people handle without thinking.

Fixed quote

Scope, price, delivery date in writing.

Build and dry-run

The script runs against a copy of your data until the output matches what a human would have produced.

Deploy and monitor

Triggers installed in your account, with two weeks of monitoring and fixes included.

Questions we get asked

Whose Google account does the script run under?

Ideally a dedicated service account or a shared operations account, not a person's — so it keeps running when someone leaves. We will advise on this during scoping.

Is our data sent anywhere?

No. Apps Script executes inside your Google Workspace. We work in a copy during development and never move production data off your account.

Can it talk to our CRM / accounting system / warehouse?

If it has an API or can email a file, yes. If it can do neither, we will say so rather than quote for a workaround that will break.

What happens when Google changes something?

Apps Script is stable, but quotas and auth do shift. The failure alerting means you find out from an email, not from a manager asking where the report is.

Tell us what it needs to do

Share the file or describe the outcome. We reply with scope, price and a delivery date.

Get a fixed quote