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The practice before
A licensed mortgage practice in Toronto: regulated, document-heavy and deadline-driven. Every file, follow-up and client update ran through one person — me.
Case study · Specimen 001
How I audited and automated my own regulated practice.
Before offering this to anyone, I ran the full diagnostic on my own mortgage practice. This is the record of what I found, what I automated first, and what I deliberately left with a person.
Arash Doulatshahi
Founder · Licensed mortgage broker · Toronto
Mortgage brokerage runs under the same conditions as a law or accounting firm: regulated, document-heavy and compliance-bound. That is why I started with my own practice.
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What the audit found
The same diagnostic a client receives: a current-state process map, an owner time-dependency analysis and a scored opportunity register across all five business layers.
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The first workflow, and why
The highest-value workflow was chosen by time recovered, risk and readiness — not by which tool was most interesting — and proven before the next one began.
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The approval gates kept
Anything that reaches a client, moves money or touches a regulated record still pauses for a person. Automation prepares the work; judgment stays human.
Before and after
Measured, not promised.
These are the measures every engagement records, before automation and again after supervised launch. Only figures that were actually recorded will be published here.
| Measure | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Owner hours on admin per week | To be published | To be published |
| Turnaround time for the first workflow | To be published | To be published |
| Missed or late follow-ups | To be published | To be published |
| Errors and exceptions requiring rework | To be published | To be published |
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Your firm could be Specimen 003.
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