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What do you do every week that you hate doing?
AI integrated in your business in days. No technical training. No changing how you work.
We automate the tasks that keep you from doing your real work, so you can focus on what truly matters.
Your business works. You decide.
The problem
You have a business. And on top of that, another job.
The work nobody hired you to do: confirming appointments by phone, remembering to call the client who didn't show up, forwarding the invoice to the accountant, asking for the review you forgot to ask for, updating the calendar when someone cancels last minute.
They're ten-minute tasks. But they happen three times a day, five days a week. And you're doing them — the most expensive person in the business.
That's not management. It's noise. And it has a solution.Y tiene solución.
What we automate
What's your business?
The most common ones, by business type. If you don't find yours here, keep reading.
If your business runs on appointments
Physios · Doctors · Hair salons · Beauty · Vets
Bookings and confirmations via WhatsApp
The client books, confirms or changes their appointment via WhatsApp without calling, at any time. You find out in real time and the calendar updates itself.
Automatic reminders
The reminder arrives on its own, at exactly the right time and via the channel each client prefers. Without you having to remember, no no-shows from forgetting.
Reactivation of dormant clients
We detect who hasn't been in for weeks or months and send a personal message on your behalf. Most of them come back.
Automatic Google reviews
We ask for the review right after the appointment, when the client is most satisfied. No manual reminders, no waiting until the next day.
Paperless client registration
The client fills out a digital form before coming in. The data lands straight in your system, no cards to fill in by hand.
Invoices to the accountant without touching them
The invoice is issued, categorised and arrives at your accountant on its own each month. You don't open a spreadsheet.
Google Calendar sync
Your calendar, the centre's and your team's always aligned. No double data entry, no lost slots.
Missed calls handled via WhatsApp
If the client calls and nobody's there, they get a WhatsApp in seconds asking if they'd like to book or have us call them back.
Social media posts from WhatsApp
Send a photo to the chat and the system generates the copy in your tone, schedules the post and uploads it to your channels on its own.
Automatic FAQs
Common questions (hours, prices, location) answered instantly, at any time, in your own style of communication.
Automatic weekly reports
Every Monday you get a clean summary on your phone: revenue, appointments, cancellations and new clients. No opening Excel.
Voice agent on the phone
When you're not available, the agent picks up the phone for you: gives information, books the appointment, or answers questions.
If your business has a team and a CRM
Consultancies · Academies · Real estate · Law firms · Dental clinics
Automated lead nurturing
Every lead gets the right messages at the right time, based on their behaviour. Without anyone chasing them manually.
Recovery of unanswered quotes
The system detects open quotes and triggers personalised follow-ups. You recover dormant opportunities.
New client onboarding
The new client enters your system the moment they sign: welcome, documents, first contact, access to tools and recorded in your CRM.
Contracts and digital signature
Proposal, contract and electronic signature integrated in the same flow. No printing, no waiting on the client, no manual steps.
Website lead capture chatbot
Chats with visitors on your website 24/7, qualifies leads with smart questions and routes them straight into your CRM with the full context.
Automatic management reports
A Looker Studio dashboard with the KPIs that actually matter for your business, updated in real time. Zero Excel exports.
Lead rescue
The agent calls back the prospects who asked for a quote and never returned, picks the conversation up again, and hands them back to you ready to close. You recover sales you'd already written off.
Make / n8n workflows
Custom flows that connect all your tools: CRM, email, forms, invoicing, whatever you use. They talk to each other without you in the middle.
Real-time metrics dashboard
A centralised panel with all your KPIs updated by the minute. No more wrestling with spreadsheets every Monday.
Automated email sequences
Personalised email nurturing based on what each lead has done: pages viewed, downloads, quotes requested. The right message at the right moment.
Automatic lead scoring
The system scores every lead based on intent and behaviour, and pings you when someone is ready to buy. Your team gets to the point.
Automated invoicing
As soon as a sale or contract closes, the invoice is generated, sent to the client and filed at your accountant's. Without clicking on anything.
Your sector. Your problem.
Find yours.
Every business has its noise. Here's the kind you'll recognise.
For dental clinics losing quotes with no follow-up
Dental clinics
The patient asks for a quote, says they'll think about it... and doesn't come back. Manual follow-up gets forgotten in the clinic's daily routine, arrives late when the patient has already asked elsewhere, or feels uncomfortable because it sounds like a sales push. Result: treatments lost that were practically closed.
→ We automate the follow-up the way an attentive, never-pushy receptionist would: the system detects every open quote, sends a reminder at exactly the right time in the tone that fits your brand, and notifies the team only when the patient replies. Zero pressure, maximum recovery, every step logged in the patient's history.
For physios wasting time confirming appointments nobody confirms
Physios and health centres
Calling patients one by one to confirm next-day appointments is repetitive work that adds nothing for the patient. And even so, last-minute no-shows keep happening: every empty slot in the calendar is an hour of revenue you don't recover, and one fewer patient you can treat that week.
→ The system confirms via WhatsApp the day before, reminds two hours ahead, and offers a one-click reschedule if the patient can't make it. If the slot opens up, it offers it to another patient on the waiting list. You open the calendar in the morning and it's full, without having touched a thing.
For academies where new students take days to get started
Academies and training centres
Enrolment, signed contract, first payment, virtual campus access, the course WhatsApp group, the initial materials... every step is manual and depends on someone on the team remembering it. Days pass between steps, and many students lose motivation along the way before they've even started classes.
→ From the moment the student says 'I'm in', onboarding happens by itself: contract signed digitally, payment confirmed, campus account created, personalised welcome and materials delivered in a single automated sequence. In hours, not days. The student starts warm and motivated, not cold and lost.
For consultancies chasing documentation every tax close
Consultancies and accountants
Every quarter starts exactly the same: ten (or fifty) clients you have to remind individually to send you the invoices, the receipts, the bank statements... the same thing as always. Hours of chasing nobody bills for, slowing down tax filings and wearing down the relationship with your own client.
→ We automate the whole collection. The system requests documents at the right moment via whichever channel each client prefers, follows up if they don't reply, files what comes in and only flags exceptions that need your judgment. You stop chasing and go back to doing what you do: advising.
For agencies where every interested lead goes hours without a response
Real estate agencies
The interested lead arrives on a Friday at 22:00, or a Sunday afternoon, or Tuesday lunchtime. They go unanswered until the next day, and by the time someone replies, they've already called two other agencies. In this sector, response speed decides who wins the deal.
→ The chatbot qualifies the lead in seconds at any time of day: budget, areas, type, timeline. If it matches your portfolio, it books the viewing straight into the free agent's calendar and sends the lead the confirmation. When your team opens the laptop on Monday, they already have viewings scheduled for the week.
For beauty centres managing their calendar by WhatsApp manually
Beauty centres and hair salons
Every appointment is a thread of messages you have to read while you're treating another client. Every reschedule, a new conversation. Every cancellation, another. As the business grows, the calendar stops being a tool and becomes the centre's biggest operational problem and main source of errors.
→ The client books, reschedules or cancels directly from WhatsApp or your website, without going through you. The system handles availability, avoids overlaps between staff, sends reminders and refills cancelled slots. You just see the up-to-date final calendar and get your time back for actual work.
For sports centres where members cancel without anyone noticing
Sports centres and gyms
The member stops coming on a Monday. Nobody at the centre notices because they're one of many. Nobody calls because they're not on any priority list. Two weeks later they decide to quit silently, and a month later you find out they're gone. Right when winning them back costs three times as much and trust is non-existent.
→ The system detects the dropout pattern the moment a member starts spacing out their visits, and triggers a personalised reactivation sequence: a friendly message from the trainer, an offer of a class with an instructor, a reminder of the goal they set when they signed up. We reach out before it's too late.
Don't see your business here?
Many of these solutions work just as well in sectors different from the ones we designed them for. If you know which task you hate repeating every week, we probably already have the solution.
For dental clinics losing quotes with no follow-up
Dental clinics
The patient asks for a quote, says they'll think about it... and doesn't come back. Manual follow-up gets forgotten in the clinic's daily routine, arrives late when the patient has already asked elsewhere, or feels uncomfortable because it sounds like a sales push. Result: treatments lost that were practically closed.
We automate the follow-up the way an attentive, never-pushy receptionist would: the system detects every open quote, sends a reminder at exactly the right time in the tone that fits your brand, and notifies the team only when the patient replies. Zero pressure, maximum recovery, every step logged in the patient's history.
Don't see your business here?
Many of these solutions work just as well in sectors different from the ones we designed them for. If you know which task you hate repeating every week, we probably already have the solution.
How we work
From the first call to your first results: weeks, not months.
Four steps with concrete timelines. No forty-slide presentations, no months of prior consulting, no technical training on your part.
Diagnosis
What do you do every week that you hate doing?
That's the only question that matters. In 30 minutes by phone or video call we understand which task is stealing your time, how many hours a week, and what would happen if it disappeared. We don't talk about software or 'digital transformation'. If we see we can't help you, we say so on that first call.
Diagnosis
What do you do every week that you hate doing?
That's the only question that matters. In 30 minutes by phone or video call we understand which task is stealing your time, how many hours a week, and what would happen if it disappeared. We don't talk about software or 'digital transformation'. If we see we can't help you, we say so on that first call.
Proposal
One page. Fixed price. No 'it depends'.
In less than a week you receive a one-page proposal: exactly what we automate, how it will work, what we need from you, delivery timeline and fixed price. If it works for you, we sign and start. If not, we don't push.
Proposal
One page. Fixed price. No 'it depends'.
In less than a week you receive a one-page proposal: exactly what we automate, how it will work, what we need from you, delivery timeline and fixed price. If it works for you, we sign and start. If not, we don't push.
Implementation
You keep working. We build.
We configure, connect with your tools (calendar, WhatsApp, invoicing, whatever applies) and test everything in a staging environment before activating it with real clients. We don't ask you to learn anything technical or change how you work today.
Implementation
You keep working. We build.
We configure, connect with your tools (calendar, WhatsApp, invoicing, whatever applies) and test everything in a staging environment before activating it with real clients. We don't ask you to learn anything technical or change how you work today.
Follow-up
The first month we're with you.
An automation isn't delivered, it's tuned. During the first month we review together how it's working with real clients, adjust what needs adjusting and respond quickly if anything breaks. After that month you decide: monthly maintenance with us, or continue on your own with everything documented.
Follow-up
The first month we're with you.
An automation isn't delivered, it's tuned. During the first month we review together how it's working with real clients, adjust what needs adjusting and respond quickly if anything breaks. After that month you decide: monthly maintenance with us, or continue on your own with everything documented.
Your business on autopilot.
The tasks you repeated every week disappear. Your time is yours again. And the system keeps running even when you're not watching. Your business works. You decide.
Inside
Tools: each one has its reason.
We don't use everything that exists. We use what works for the type of business we care about. And everything runs on infrastructure we control.
We have our own servers for all that infrastructure. No lock-in. No data passing through third parties without your knowledge. And if a tool stops making sense, we swap it out without your business noticing.
Who's behind it
Twenty years making things run themselves. First physical robots. Now AI.
I'm Manuel Ardeiro, a technology enthusiast. I've been working with robotics and automation systems since 2004: first installing and maintaining physical dispensing robots in pharmacies, then managing technical operations with multidisciplinary teams that installed and maintained different types of robots. Later on I moved into software automation: flows that handled repetitive, no-value-added tasks, such as bulk document downloads, automatic reading and classification, report generation, etc. Today I'm taking another step: I'm leaving working for others behind to start my own business and bring all that knowledge and experience (and the new AI tools) to the day-to-day of small businesses and freelancers.
As you can see, I didn't jump on the AI bandwagon now that everyone's talking about it. I've spent two decades installing and maintaining machines and designing tools that do the work people shouldn't have to do. And that's exactly the problem I solve for my clients.
Because along this journey I realised something: automations, big data or AI aren't only for large companies, they're within everyone's reach. What happens in small businesses, more often than not, is that there's only time to survive, no room to research the new advances in tools that could mark a real before-and-after. A shame, because it would completely change their lives. That's where Ardeiro.AI comes from: to help freelancers, small businesses and SMEs adopt and adapt these tools and, with them, change their lives.
In short, it's been more than twenty years at multinationals in the health and technology sectors, learning from the inside how a large company works: processes, procedures, metrics and management layers, systems with 24/7/365 support and critical SLAs in hospital and pharmaceutical environments, where a process simply cannot fail. Operational experience I rounded out with ESADE's PMD — a general management programme covering strategy, finance, marketing and operations — to understand the client's business beyond the technical tool that solves it. Bottom line: I apply the rigour of mission-critical multinational processes to every automation I build, but without the rigidity or the endless timelines.
Background
Physics (USC)
The scientific foundation. Learning to break down complex systems, understand how things work from the inside, and ask the right questions before looking for answers.
ESADE · PMD
Business. Strategy, finance, marketing, operations management. To understand the client's problem beyond the technical tool that solves it.
42 Network
Code. Peer-to-peer training, no teachers, based on real projects and autonomy. The same philosophy I use to build solutions for my clients.
Other projects
Social analysis and surveys. A platform for understanding what people think, in contexts where data matters.
An agroecology project under construction. More information coming soon.
Let's talk
One question and we're off.
We don't need to know much about your business to get started. Just which task you hate repeating every week.
I'll reply within 24 hours. If I see I can't help you, I'll tell you in that first conversation.