# Decision guides for business owners.

> Practical guides for deciding what to automate, what to build, and when a workflow has outgrown its tools.

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Practical guides for deciding what to automate, what to build, and when a workflow has outgrown its tools.

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Decision guide

## [Custom software or no-code?](https://automatics.dev/blog/custom-software-or-no-code/)

A practical guide to knowing when Zapier or Make is enough, and when the workflow needs software you own.

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Mircea Preotu

3 min readJuly 14, 2026

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## [Free technical audit of your website](https://automatics.dev/blog/technical-audit/)

A ranked audit of your public site: SEO, performance, security, and email delivery, with what to fix first.

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Mircea Preotu

2 min readJuly 30, 2026

## What these are for

Every guide here comes out of a decision I have helped a client make: build or buy, automate or hire, keep the no-code canvas or move to software you own. They are written for the person who owns the workflow, not for developers.

Expect concrete thresholds instead of general advice: the volume where per-task pricing overtakes software you own, and the signs that a workflow has outgrown the tools around it.

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