The Lost Co
The Lost Co

Zapier Workflows Built to Last.

Audit, rebuild & monitor automations for Melbourne retail, trades, real estate & professional service teams.

Shadow Automation Causing Headaches?

Unowned zaps, duplicated logic and rising task costs break as volume grows. Without observability, failures pile up silently and staff slip back to manual work.

Engineering Grade Workflows.

We apply naming conventions, idempotency, structured logging, and cost trimming patterns so Zapier becomes dependable infrastructure—not a fragile experiment.

Implementation Packages

Choose a starting point

Starter
Stabilise & Clean
$900+
1–2 key workflows
Variable mapping tidy
Basic logging
30 days support
Most Popular
Growth
Scale Reliability
$2,400+
4–6 workflows
Branching & retries
Central error handler
60 days support
Scale
Platform Approach
POA
10+ workflows
Custom apps
Cost optimisation
SLA & reporting

Ongoing Management

Keep workflows healthy as volume and stack evolve

Maintenance
$450/mo
Health checks
Task usage tuning
Alert responses
Growth
$950/mo
Everything in Maintenance
Monthly new workflow
Cost & run analytics

Melbourne Example Workflow

Retail (Inventory Replenishment): Reduce stockouts & manual chasing using structured, observable automations.

Low stock trigger

Inventory threshold hit in POS / Shopify

1
Step 1 progression node

Supplier draft order

Webhook creates pre-filled PO for review

2
Step 2 progression node

Slack alert

Channel notification with SKU + required qty

3
Step 3 progression node

Vendor approval

Auto email with confirmation link

4
Step 4 progression node

Status sync

Order status & ETA back to dashboard

5
Step 5 progression node
-38% tasksZapier executions per replenishment cycle

Ideal For Teams That Want To:

Removing repetitive admin copying data

Getting observability over silent failures

Adding guardrails before scaling volume

Normalising messy form / POS data

Speeding lead → response time

Launching new workflows faster

38% ↓
Task Cost Reduction

"After the rebuild we cut Zapier tasks by over a third and eliminated random duplicate CRM entries. Now we trust the automations and can scale campaigns."

Operations Lead
Melbourne Retail Group

Zapier FAQ

What causes most Zapier failures?

Unstructured data assumptions, race conditions, missing idempotency, and silent 429 / quota responses. We design against these early.

Can you reduce our Zapier bill?

Often yes—webhooks over polling, consolidating paths, trimming excess steps, and batching updates to reduce task count.

When do we outgrow Zapier?

When workflows require heavy data transforms, long-running state, or complex branching across many systems—then we pair with Make or custom services.

Do we keep control?

Yes. Workflows live in your account; we document design, naming and error handling so your team isn’t locked in.

Stabilise & Scale Your Automations.

Book a walkthrough. We'll surface quick wins, critical risks and a roadmap to confidence.