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About / Abdurraafi Serang
If the work only moves because someone remembers, the system is not doing enough.
Abdurraafi Serang is the founder of sorted.solutions. He helps schools, universities, and online education teams understand and improve operational systems through workflow design, automation, and practical AI.
Much of this work began inside a lean online-education environment, where limited time and resources made operational weaknesses difficult to ignore. The work was getting done—but often because capable people were quietly holding the system together.
- Focus
- Education operations
- Studio model
- Founder-led
01 / A familiar pattern
You may recognise this kind of operation.
None of these problems looks dramatic on its own. Together, they create an operation that depends too heavily on memory, repeated checking, and unwritten knowledge.
Schedule changes
A change has to be copied across several calendars, messages, and documents.
Recurring reports
A report depends on someone knowing which spreadsheets to export and reconcile.
Key-person dependency
An important process slows down when the person who normally runs it is unavailable.
02 / The turning point
Nothing had failed. The system was already fragile.
I reached a point where I could see that if one key person stepped away, important work would begin to slip.
Not catastrophically. Just enough to create delays, inconsistent decisions, missed follow-ups, and unnecessary risk.
The problem was not that people were failing to work hard enough. Capable people were compensating for weaknesses in the way the work had been organised.
The work was getting done, but the system was not carrying its share.
03 / What changed
I stopped treating reminders and double-checks as the solution.
I began mapping workflows as they actually happened—not as a policy document suggested they happened. That meant finding the hidden handoffs, repeated data entry, unofficial spreadsheets, individual workarounds, and decisions that only one person knew how to make.
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Remove unnecessary steps
Remove steps that no longer serve a purpose.
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Clarify ownership
Make responsibility and the next action clear.
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Document knowledge
Keep important knowledge out of one person’s memory.
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Connect existing tools
Reduce the manual movement of information between systems.
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Automate repetition
Keep decisions and exceptions visible while repeated work moves automatically.
Not every problem needed new software. Sometimes the most useful improvement was a clearer process or one maintained source of operational information.
The aim was simple: calmer operations that placed less pressure on individuals to keep everything moving.
04 / Why sorted.solutions exists
That approach became sorted.solutions.
Today, I bring the same way of working to education teams dealing with manual, fragile, or difficult-to-explain workflows.
Operational SOP system
One maintained starting point for a department’s processes, timelines, resources, decisions, and recurring answers.
See the systemRecording operations system
Daily Zoom archiving connected with a separate workflow that finds and delivers the right recordings after a student absence request.
See the systemThe technologies were different because the problems were different. What they shared was a focus on making the operation easier for the people responsible for running it.
05 / A multidisciplinary route
Different disciplines. One recurring habit.
My background crosses design, research, creative production, operations, IT, and automation. The useful part is not the number of disciplines. It is the habit they developed: looking beyond the visible task to understand the larger system around it.
My role is to help you see that system clearly, decide what genuinely needs to change, and build an improvement your team can understand and maintain.
A useful place to begin
Is your team carrying a workflow the system should be handling?
If a process depends on repeated chasing, manual copying, or one indispensable person, tell me what is happening. We can begin with a free 20-minute fit call—or you can simply connect with me on LinkedIn.