Case Study: How HealthyMe Living Cut Costs and Gained Full Workflow Control with Chase Agents

Case Studies · By Chase Continental · January 4, 2026

"Chase Agents has opened up many new doors of how to interact with customer data. The options are endless and have helped me to complete tasks that I, as a solopreneur, would've had to pay lots of money to an expert to have completed. I can now do things on my own, with regular human language that would otherwise cost lots of money and time. It is a real game changer. The possibilities and capabilities seem limitless." - Christy Venter, Founder of HealthyMeLiving

The Problem

HealthyMe Living, a Shopify-based subscription snack business, faced a highly specific order-management challenge. Through Lucky Rhino, customers could purchase discounted multi-month subscription boxes, but the orders arrived in Shopify as a single bundled order instead of separate monthly ones. Christy Venter, the founder, needed those bundled orders automatically split into individual monthly orders—each with its own fulfillment date, applied only to Lucky Rhino orders, and each newly created order correctly inheriting the customer name from the original shipping address.

It's the kind of problem that sounds simple until you try to solve it. One order contains three months of snacks. That one order needs to become three separate orders in Shopify, each scheduled for a different fulfillment date, each with the same customer details, and each one only created if it came through the Lucky Rhino channel. Miss any of those requirements and the whole system falls apart.

The Make.com Attempt

Christy brought in a contractor who built the workflow in Make.com. At first, it worked. Orders got split, fulfillment dates were assigned, customer names carried over. Then it broke. Not catastrophically, but in subtle ways that were impossible to debug. The contractor couldn't figure out what went wrong. Christy couldn't see inside the logic. The workflow became a black box.

When she tried to fix it herself or have someone else take a look, it was impossible. The modules were cryptic. The logic was buried in a tangle of conditions and actions. Every attempt to modify it either broke something else or introduced new errors. She was stuck paying someone to maintain a system nobody fully understood.

That's when people told her the solution: hire developers to custom-build the integration. The estimates came back at $5,000–$15,000 upfront, plus ongoing maintenance. For a small business running on tight margins, those numbers made the problem feel unsolvable.

Finding Another Way

She discovered Chase Agents and tried a different approach. Instead of navigating modules or learning to code, she described her logic in plain English. What do the orders look like? How should they split? What dates matter? What should happen to the customer info? She just talked through the problem, and Chase Agents generated the automation from those instructions.

That was step one. Step two was the part that actually mattered: she could open the automation, read its reasoning, ask it what it was doing, and see where errors happened. This observability changed everything. When something went wrong, she didn't have to guess or wait for a contractor. She could ask the automation directly, get a human-readable explanation, and fix it herself. Minutes instead of days. No more mystery.

Setup and Flexibility

Connecting Chase Agents to Shopify, Notion, and her webhook-based triggers was straightforward. No custom code. No hiring a developer to do initial setup. She connected everything herself in guided steps. The automation went live: splitting bulk subscription orders, scheduling each fulfillment date, assigning the correct customer name, applying all the logic exclusively to Lucky Rhino orders.

And it was flexible. She could run it on demand. She could schedule it. She could trigger it with Shopify webhooks. She could clone it and modify the rules. She could create new workflows for other parts of her business. When her old Make.com workflow finally collapsed completely and she resorted to manually tracking orders in Notion, Chase Agents helped her automate that entire side workflow too. Hours of repetitive admin work, gone.

The Real Cost

Christy's previous options were expensive. Either hire developers ($5,000–$15,000 upfront plus ongoing maintenance) or use complex third-party tools (hundreds per month). Chase Agents? She only pays for the AI compute that actually runs the automation. It's a fraction of the alternatives. Conservatively, she saved $6,000–$20,000 in development expenses alone.

But the real win wasn't just the money saved up front. It was the 8–12 hours per week she no longer spends on manual order tracking and maintenance. Over a year, that's 400+ hours she gets back to focus on growing her business instead of babysitting a broken workflow.

What Actually Changed

What began as a solution to a single broken workflow evolved into a full automation layer that Christy can control without any engineering background. She understands it. She can inspect it. She can adapt it. That last part matters more than most people realize.

With Make.com, adjusting the workflow meant re-learning how someone else had structured it, or worse, hiring that contractor again. With Chase Agents, she owns the logic. She can see it work. She can ask it questions. She can change it. That's not just a workflow. That's control.

Chase Agents gave HealthyMe Living transparency, adaptability, and meaningful cost savings. Traditional automation tools had never been able to offer her that combination.