A mini app is a web app that opens inside Telegram. Your staff tap a button in a chat they already have open, and they are in. Nothing to install, no app store review, no password to reset, and the user's identity comes from the platform rather than a login form you have to secure yourself.
A full point-of-sale system that lives inside Telegram. No terminal to buy, no tablet to replace, no per-seat licence.
One queue, one human approval, twelve destinations — from TikTok to the TV above your own bar.
Orders arrive as chat messages and leave as filed records and real PDF invoices — nothing retyped in between.
Fixtures, RSVPs, waitlists and reminders for clubs and teams — run from the group chat everyone is already in.
Not packaged as products, but in production and available as a starting point if one of them describes your problem.
A Telegram front desk that has been answering for the Automaton Labs shop since August 2025 — catalogue, orders and profile questions handled behind an authenticated boundary.
The Automaton Labs storefront: catalogue, orders and customer profiles served as a Telegram mini app, with every request's identity verified before it is trusted.
Type an instruction in English; the staff group receives it simplified, translated into Khmer, and read aloud as a voice note — because a message nobody understands is a message nobody follows.
Photograph a receipt in Telegram and it is filed. Every three days the receipt folder is reconciled against the expense ledger: missing rows appended, duplicates and currency or date anomalies flagged, and a summary posted to the accounting group.
Because your staff already have it installed and already know how to use it. There is no app store review, no install friction, no separate password to forget, and identity comes free with the platform. For a five-person team, a Telegram mini app is live in the time it takes to explain what an MDM enrolment is.
Sales data lives in Postgres on your server, not in Telegram. An outage stops new orders being entered from the app, exactly as a broken till would, but nothing is lost and nothing needs reconciling afterwards.
Usually, and it is one of the most worthwhile things we do. The spreadsheet becomes a real database with validation, so two people cannot overwrite each other and the reporting can be trusted. We start by reading your actual spreadsheet, because the awkward columns are where the real business rules are hiding.
If it has an API or webhooks, yes. If it only has a CSV export, we build a repeatable import instead — less elegant, works fine. If it has neither, we will say so plainly rather than promising a scraper that breaks on their next redesign.
A focused first version is usually weeks rather than months, because we deliberately scope one to something you can start using and then extend. If a quote sounds like six months of work before you see anything, the scope is wrong.
Yes. It runs on your infrastructure, against your database, with your credentials, and you get the documentation. There is no per-seat licence and no lock-in beyond the fact that someone has to maintain it.
Often, yes — that is a good deal of the work. Send the workflows or the repository and expect an honest answer about whether repairing it is cheaper than replacing it.
Remote for software; on-site in Phnom Penh for hardware, panel and installation work. Environmental monitoring is remote by design once installed.
A conversation costs nothing and often ends with us saying automation is not worth it for a given job. That is a useful answer too.