Business process automation for Oklahoma businesses
Stop doing by hand
what software should
be doing for you.
Ladner Automation helps mid-sized companies find the manual, repetitive work that quietly eats hours every week — data re-keyed between systems, spreadsheets stitched together, approvals chased over email — and replaces it with automation that runs reliably in the background.
The work that quietly eats the week
If your team spends its days moving information around instead of doing the actual job, some of this will sound familiar.
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Data typed twice
The same numbers keyed by hand from one system into another because the two were never built to talk to each other.
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Reports stitched together
Someone spends every Monday copying rows between spreadsheets to produce a report the business depends on.
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Approvals lost in email
Handoffs and sign-offs chased down over long email threads, where things stall and nobody's sure who has the ball.
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Gaps off-the-shelf won't cover
A back-office workflow specific to how you operate that no packaged product handles, so it gets done manually instead.
How it works
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Identify the process
We look at how the work actually moves through your business — the handoffs, the re-keying, the recurring reports — and find where the time is going.
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Scope it around hours saved
Before anything gets built, we agree on what the automation will do and roughly how much manual time it should give back. The scope is defined, not open-ended.
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Build it
The integration or automation gets built to fit your systems and run reliably in the background — with the same care you'd want on the software the business already runs on.
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Hand it over
You get something that runs on its own, plus a clear picture of how it works, so it keeps serving the business long after it ships.
Still running something nobody wants to touch?
Plenty of Oklahoma businesses depend on a FoxPro, Access, or homegrown system built decades ago that works just well enough to be terrifying.
Replacing one without breaking the business is a specific skill: our founder migrated a twenty-year-old payroll platform to a modern architecture without a single customer outage. If that's your situation, it's a conversation worth having.
Who's behind it
Ladner Automation is Karsten Ladner. He spent six years building payroll infrastructure for a national platform — the kind of system where a rounding error becomes a phone call from someone's employer.
He works with Oklahoma businesses directly: the same person on the discovery call, the architecture, and the code. No junior handoff, no account manager in between. It's enterprise-grade engineering, applied at a scale where companies normally can't hire that engineer.
BS in Computer Science, Oklahoma Baptist University, and a peer-reviewed paper in Social Network Analysis and Mining.
- Zero customer outages. Replaced a 20-year-old FoxPro payroll application with a modern C#/ASP.NET system without breaking what was running.
- Real-time rule engine. Built a rule engine comparing millions of data points in real time, derived from the legacy system it replaced.
- Integrated into live systems. Added new services to production systems without disrupting customers.
- Roughly 5x faster. Cut payroll calculation time by about 80% through front-loaded caching architecture.
Let's talk
Tell me about the process that's eating your team's time.
A first conversation is just that — a discovery call to understand the work and whether automation is the right fit. No obligation, no pitch.
hello@ladnerautomation.com