Do you own, run, or manage a small business?

The Automation Trail Map by Chatham Oaks is a publication focused on finding new, simple ways to save company time and money using Zapier automations.

With Zapier, the online automation king devoted to assisting any business “automate their busywork”, you can find over 5,000 apps that you may currently be using in your suite of business tools. Most of these apps you’ll never know about or encounter. But what if one of those apps can change the way you do business forever? Maybe, maybe not. But if there’s a chance, I’m taking it so you don’t have to.

Every trail map will include a quick guide what the app does, three recommended automations and who they should be geared towards, and my honest review whether you, as a small business, should go out of your way to incorporate this app into your process on a scale from 1–4. 1 being the least small business friendly to 4 being the most. Here are some business automation solutions: