The Den cuts grant applications from 3 days to 2 hours

Social club The Den is opening a new location and using ChatGPT Work to take routine off its team. According to OpenAI, this frees up 10–15 hours a week. A grant application now takes 2 hours instead of 3 days, and liquor-license materials take 3 hours instead of 4 days.

These are classic tasks for a growing small business: paperwork that earns no revenue but without which you can neither open nor get funded. When one or two people handle it, each application eats days, and expansion stalls on paperwork rather than ideas. Here the time dropped dramatically, and the freed hours go back into growth.

Look at which documents in your company still take days to assemble by hand: subsidy and grant applications, permit and license packages, partner reports. Estimate how many hours a month that costs you. A 1Cifer agent pulls material from 1C, CRM and spreadsheets at once and takes access rights from the company structure, so everyone sees only their own.