About
Built by someone who had to figure this out for a real job first.
DeGonda Automates is run by Will DeGonda out of Minneapolis. Every service on this site started as something built to solve an actual problem at an actual company, not as a product idea looking for a customer.
The short version
I started doing this because the work in front of me was tedious.
I am Will DeGonda. I study at the University of St. Thomas and I work at a commercial real estate and project management firm in Minneapolis. I am not a software developer and I did not come to this from a technology background.
What happened was ordinary. I had a pile of properties to evaluate against a client's criteria, and doing it by hand was going to take days of reading PDFs and filling in a spreadsheet. So I spent an afternoon figuring out whether AI could do the reading and the scoring for me. It could. The output was a ranked shortlist with the disqualifiers already flagged and every open question collected into a checklist.
Then I did the same thing to meeting notes. Then to weekly planning. Each one took an afternoon to build and saved that afternoon back within a couple of weeks.
The thing that struck me was not that the technology was impressive. It was that almost nobody around me was using it this way. Plenty of people were asking a chatbot to write emails. Almost nobody was handing over entire processes. That gap is the whole business.
Why a small operation is the right one for this
The people selling AI transformation have mostly never done the job you are trying to automate.
We build it, then sell it
Every service here existed as working software solving a real problem before it appeared on this page. Nothing on this site is a capability we think we could probably deliver.
Small enough to say no
A firm with a sales quota cannot tell you your process is not worth automating. We can, and we do, because taking a project that will not pay back is worse for us than not taking it.
You are meant to outgrow us
The Blueprint exists to make your team capable of building the next automation without calling anyone. That is a strange thing to sell, and it is the point.
How we work
Four rules, and we would rather lose a project than break one.
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A human approves anything that leaves your business
Automations draft the email, the proposal, the message. A person sends it. We do not build systems that speak to your customers without someone seeing it first, and voice agents always identify themselves as assistants.
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It runs in your accounts, not ours
Nothing we build depends on a platform we control. Your data stays in your tools, we do not hold copies, and you can revoke our access the day we finish without anything breaking.
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We tell you when the answer is no
Some processes have too much genuine judgment in them to hand over. Some should be deleted rather than automated. Some are not frequent enough to earn back the build cost. You will hear all three, on the free call, before you have paid anything.
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No invented numbers
If a result was not measured, we say it was not measured. You will not find a fabricated percentage anywhere on this site, and you will not get one in a proposal either.
The obvious question
Yes, I am still in school.
It is a fair thing to weigh, so here is the honest case rather than a deflection.
This field is roughly two years old in any practical sense. Nobody has a decade of experience in it, and a lot of the people claiming deep expertise are applying an older playbook to a tool that does not behave the way that playbook assumes. What matters is how many of these systems you have actually built and handed to someone who then had to use them on a Tuesday without you in the room.
What you get from a small operation is the person who builds it being the person on the call. Nothing gets lost between the salesperson who promised it and the contractor who builds it, because those are the same person.
And the discovery call is free specifically so you can judge this for yourself. Thirty minutes is enough to tell whether someone understands your process. If it is not, you have lost half an hour.
Tell me what is eating your week.
Thirty minutes, no cost, no pitch. You leave with a written read on your process whether or not anything comes of it.