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Done for you · not another app

A Google Sheets consultant you can actually hire — and who actually builds it.

Formulas, dashboards, automations, or just untangling the sheet you already have. One real person, a flat price agreed up front, and most work back in 24–48 hours.

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A real person in Gainesville, FL · working with small businesses everywhere

The problem

You need a Sheets person, not a two-week ticket

You know exactly what you want your spreadsheet to do. You just don’t want to spend your weekend learning QUERY, ARRAYFORMULA, and Apps Script to get there.

So you look for help — and it’s the same two walls every time. The agency wants a discovery call, a scope doc, and $120 an hour on a meter you can’t see. The freelance marketplace has someone who’ll “get to it Tuesday,” then next Tuesday, and you’re back to guessing what it’ll cost and when it lands.

You don’t need a project. You need the sheet built, this week, for a price you agreed to before it started.

That’s this. One real person who builds Google Sheets for small businesses all day — and hands you back exactly the thing you asked for.

The whole difference: no hourly meter, no eight-to-thirteen-day queue. A flat number, and it’s usually done in a day or two.

What you get

What you can hand me

“Consultant” here doesn’t mean advice-and-a-slide-deck. It means I build the thing. Depending on what you need, that’s:

  • Custom builds — a tracker, a quoting sheet, an inventory or scheduling system, a CRM-lite — built from scratch around how you actually work.
  • Formulas that do the hard part — QUERY, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, ARRAYFORMULA, nested logic — the stuff you’d lose an afternoon to, done and explained.
  • Fixing the sheet you already have — broken references, #REF! errors, formulas that stopped adding up, a file that’s grown into a mess. (A one-time messy-file cleanup has its own flat $300 service →)
  • Live dashboards — a self-updating KPI view that pulls your numbers into one clean screen. See a real live one →
  • Automations — Apps Script and connected tools so the sheet updates itself, emails the report, or syncs with the apps you already use.
  • A second opinion — sometimes you just want someone who knows Sheets cold to tell you the right way to structure it. That counts too.

If it lives in Google Sheets, it’s in scope. Excel too — send whichever you’ve got.

Pricing & speed

A flat number, agreed before I start

Most Sheets consultants quote you an hourly rate — usually $50 to $150 an hour — and a delivery date a week or two out. That’s the whole reason the meter is stressful: you don’t know the final bill until it arrives.

I work the opposite way.

  • Flat price, up front. We agree one number before I touch anything. No hourly meter, no scope creep on your dime.
  • The standard jobs already have prices: a spreadsheet cleanup is $300, a live automated dashboard is $650, report autopilot is $1,000 to set up. Custom builds get their own flat quote — one number, before we start.
  • Fast, not “someday.” Most work comes back in 24–48 hours, not the 8–13 days the field runs. Bigger automation builds get a firm date up front.
Flat agreed up front · no hourly meter · most work back in 24–48h

You’ll always know the price and the timeline before you commit a dollar.

The free part

See it work before you pay a dollar

Before you hire anyone, it’s fair to see the work. So the first piece is free.

  1. Tell me what you need.

    Send the sheet you want fixed or built, or just describe the thing you wish it did. Two minutes.

  2. I build a piece of it in about a day.

    You get back a real working sample on your data — a live formula, a fixed tab, a mini dashboard — usually within one business day. Not a pitch deck. The actual thing.

  3. Keep it either way.

    Want the rest? We lock a flat price and I finish it. Not for you? Keep the demo free, no follow-up sequence.

No discovery call, no proposal to read, no contract before you’ve seen it work.

Who you’re working with

Who you’re actually hiring

I’m Colin McCarthy, and Automated Workflow is me — the person who answers your email is the person who builds your sheet. No account managers, no offshore hand-off, no ticket queue.

  • A real person in Gainesville, FL — working with small businesses everywhere in the US, all over email and Google Sheets.
  • Your data stays private. Never shared, never used for anything else, and deleted after the demo. NDA available on request — just ask before you send.
  • I answer my own phone. Want to talk the build through first? Call or text and you get me, not a menu.
  • Trained craft, not a buzzword. Anthropic Academy certified — six credentials in AI-assisted automation — and verified on Upwork, where the same work is reviewed on a public platform.

Ready when you are

Got something you wish your sheet could do?

Tell me what it is. Most mini-demos go out within one business day, and you keep the sample either way — whether or not we ever work together.

Tell Colin what you need →

Or use the free-demo form — same thing, no email app required. Based in Gainesville, working with small businesses everywhere.

Questions people ask

Hiring a Google Sheets consultant, answered

How much does a Google Sheets consultant cost?
Most Google Sheets consultants charge $50–150 per hour on an open-ended meter. Automated Workflow works flat instead: a spreadsheet cleanup is $300, a live automated dashboard is $650, and custom builds get a single flat quote agreed before any work starts. You see a working sample on your real data first through the free 1-day demo, so you know the price and the result before you pay.
Can I hire someone to build my Google Sheet for me?
Yes. You can hire Colin McCarthy at Automated Workflow to build it for you — a tracker, a quoting or inventory system, a live dashboard, custom formulas, or automations — instead of learning it yourself. You describe what you need, agree a flat price, and most builds come back within 24–48 hours. The first piece is free through the 1-day mini-demo.
What does a Google Sheets consultant actually do?
A Google Sheets consultant builds and fixes spreadsheets so you don’t have to. Here that means custom builds from scratch, complex formulas (QUERY, XLOOKUP, ARRAYFORMULA), repairing broken or messy sheets, live self-updating KPI dashboards, and Apps Script automations that update or email themselves. It’s done-for-you work by one real person, not advice on a call — and it works in both Google Sheets and Excel.
How fast can you build or fix my Google Sheet?
Most work comes back within 24–48 hours, versus the 8–13 days many consultants quote. The free mini-demo — a real working sample on your own data — usually goes out within one business day. Larger automation builds get a firm delivery date agreed up front before you commit.
Do you work in Excel too, or only Google Sheets?
Both. Google Sheets is the specialty — it’s where live dashboards and automations run best — but builds, formulas, and fixes work in Excel as well. Send whichever you use, and if you want to move from Excel to Google Sheets for the automation features, that migration is part of the job.
Is my data safe if I share my spreadsheet with a consultant?
Yes. Your file is never shared and never used for anything else, and it’s deleted after the demo. An NDA is available on request — just ask before you send. You’re working directly with one person in Gainesville, FL, not routing your data through an agency team or a marketplace platform.