AI Automation · From $3,500 per project

AI That Replaces the Work
You Hate Doing.

Most automation projects fail because they automate the wrong process. I start with process mapping, then build n8n workflows that connect your CRM, APIs, and LLMs into systems that run without human intervention. Project-based pricing from $3,500. No retainers.

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AI automation by me means n8n workflows that connect your CRM, marketing tools, and LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude) into automated pipelines. Project-based pricing from $3,500 for a single workflow to $15,000+ for a multi-workflow system. Optional $500 audit to identify the highest-ROI candidates before committing to a build. Having shipped two production SaaS products and built dozens of automations for ecommerce and SaaS clients, I scope work the way an engineer would, not the way a tool vendor would.

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What You Get

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Stop Automating the Wrong Things

Most automation projects fail before any code is written. The process is wrong, the upstream data is unreliable, or the workflow is solving a problem created by another broken process. I start every project with process mapping: input, transformation, output, owner, success criteria. If the process is not worth automating, I tell you before you spend money finding out.

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Lead Routing, Enrichment, and CRM Updates Without Manual Entry

A new lead lands in your CRM. Clearbit enriches the company data. Claude or GPT-4o scores the lead against your ICP criteria. The contact routes to the right salesperson. A draft follow-up email lands in their inbox within seconds. The sales team stops doing data entry and starts talking to qualified prospects.

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Content Pipelines From Brief to Scheduled Post

Research → brief → draft → review → scheduled publish. AI handles the research synthesis and first draft. Human review gate before publication. The system moves content through stages without someone manually copy-pasting between Notion, WordPress, and Slack. Useful for teams producing more than four posts per month.

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Customer Support Triage Without an Agent Answering Every Chat

Incoming tickets get classified by an LLM. FAQ-style questions get answered automatically from a vector store of your help docs. Complex tickets route to the right human with context attached. Typical outcome: 60–70% of routine tickets resolve without a human touch, and your agents spend their time on cases that actually need one.

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LLM-Powered Data Enrichment at API Speed

Bulk enrichment of contacts, companies, products, or documents via OpenAI or Anthropic Claude APIs. Structured output enforced through JSON schema. Cost per record typically $0.001–$0.01 depending on prompt length and model choice. Faster than any manual process, cheaper than third-party data vendors for use cases they do not cover.

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Integration With Your Existing Stack

HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Notion, Airtable, Shopify, WooCommerce, Stripe, Slack, Google Workspace. Anything with a REST API. I handle authentication, rate limits, webhook management, and bidirectional sync where required. Full documentation delivered so your team owns the integration after handoff.

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My Approach to AI Automation

The trap in AI automation is the tooling-first mindset. Someone reads about n8n, Make, or LangChain, picks a platform, and starts building. Six weeks later they have a workflow that does not solve the original problem because the process itself was the wrong shape. I work the other way around: process mapping first, tooling second. If the workflow can be solved with a $20/month tool and no AI, I will tell you. AI gets added only when it does something a rule-based system cannot.

My discovery sessions produce a one-page document for every workflow: the trigger event, the input data shape, the transformation steps, the output destination, the error states, the success criteria. Without that document, the implementation is guesswork. With it, building becomes mechanical. The fastest projects are the ones where the client can sign off on the process map in a single meeting.

n8n is my default orchestration platform for most projects. It runs self-hosted on the client infrastructure (data stays in-house), has first-class HTTP request and Code nodes for calling LLM APIs with custom prompts, and supports the kind of error handling Zapier cannot. For projects where the client already has Make or Zapier in production, I integrate with those platforms instead of forcing a migration. OpenAI and Anthropic Claude are my default LLMs, chosen per use case based on cost, latency, and quality. For data-sensitive deployments I run Llama or Mistral locally via Ollama.

Production reliability matters more than feature count. Every workflow I build has retry logic with exponential backoff, Slack or email alerts on failure, fallback paths for partial outages, and idempotency keys to prevent duplicate writes when a step retries. I have seen too many automations in production that silently swallow failures until a human notices three days later. The cost of fixing that is higher than building it right the first time.

The business context shapes the technical choices. Having built and scaled two SaaS products (Dropship.ai tracking 2M+ Shopify stores, SameAPI as a website traffic intelligence platform), I know where automation breaks at scale and design for those failure modes from the start. I do not pitch AI for the sake of AI. I build the smallest system that solves the actual operational problem, then iterate based on what the data shows after 30 days in production.

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Pricing

Project Fee
From $3,500
to $15,000+ · fixed-price quote after discovery
Single well-defined workflows at the lower end ($3,500–$6,000). Multi-workflow systems with CRM integration, LLM processing, and error handling at the higher end ($8,000–$15,000+). Fixed price, no hourly billing, no retainer required.
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One-Time Option
Automation ROI Audit
$500
one-time · 5–7 day turnaround
Process review across your current operation. Deliverable: a prioritised list of 3–5 automation candidates with estimated effort, expected ROI, and recommended tooling. About 70% of audit clients convert findings into a full build.
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Who This Is For

My AI automation service is for ecommerce operators, SaaS teams, and marketing agencies spending significant team hours on repetitive processes: lead routing, CRM updates, content production, support triage, reporting, data reconciliation. The ideal client has a clear manual process they want to automate, the technical infrastructure to support it (APIs, webhooks, or willingness to set them up), and an understanding that the first month is investment before the system delivers compounding returns.

I am not the right fit if you want to bolt AI onto a process you cannot clearly describe, or if you are looking for someone to set up ChatGPT and call it automation. The clients who get the most from my work are the ones who can describe what triggers a process, what happens in the middle, and what the output looks like. If you cannot do that yet, the $500 audit is the right starting point. We map the operational bottlenecks together before committing to a build.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does AI automation actually look like in practice?
A typical project connects three to five systems into a single workflow that runs without human intervention. Examples: a new lead lands in your CRM, gets enriched with company data via Clearbit, qualified by a Claude API call against your ICP criteria, scored, and routed to the right salesperson with a draft follow-up email in their inbox. Or: a support ticket comes in, an LLM classifies it, retrieves the relevant FAQ from a vector store, drafts a response for an agent to review, and escalates complex cases to a human. The visible result is less manual work. The invisible result is faster response times, fewer dropped leads, and consistent output regardless of who is on shift.
Why do most automation projects fail?
They automate the wrong process. I have seen teams spend $40,000 on tooling to streamline a workflow that was the wrong shape from the start, or that was solving a problem created by another broken process upstream. The other common failure mode: workflows without error handling. An API goes down for four hours, the workflow silently swallows the failures, and by the time anyone notices, three days of leads are missing. I refuse both failure modes. Every project starts with process mapping. Every workflow has explicit retry, notification, and fallback logic.
Why n8n instead of Zapier or Make?
For simple point-to-point automations with low volume, Zapier is fine. Once you need conditional logic with multiple branches, loops, custom JavaScript execution, error handling per node, or self-hosted deployment for data sensitivity, n8n becomes the better choice. Make sits in between. Pricing also matters: Zapier bills per task, so a workflow that processes 50,000 records per month can run four figures per month in platform fees alone. n8n self-hosted is effectively free beyond infrastructure. For AI automation specifically, n8n gives me first-class HTTP request nodes and Code nodes for calling OpenAI or Claude APIs with custom prompts and structured outputs.
Which LLMs do you use in automation workflows?
OpenAI (GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini) and Anthropic (Claude Sonnet, Claude Haiku) depending on the task. For classification and routing I usually use GPT-4o-mini because it is fast and cheap. For drafting longer responses, summarising documents, or extracting structured data, Claude Sonnet or GPT-4o. For local or privacy-sensitive deployments I work with open-source models (Llama, Mistral) running via Ollama. The choice depends on latency, cost, and data residency requirements. I pick the model per use case rather than defaulting to one vendor.
How long does an automation project take?
A single well-defined workflow: 1–2 weeks from discovery to production. A multi-workflow system with three to five integrated processes: 4–8 weeks. The discovery phase (process mapping, requirements, success criteria) usually takes 3–5 days and runs before any code is written. Implementation speed depends more on client-side access to APIs and decision-making than on the technical work itself. The slowest projects are the ones where the client cannot decide what success looks like before we start.
What happens after the automation goes live?
I include 30 days of post-delivery support for system integration projects. After that, you can buy a maintenance retainer (typically $300–$800/month depending on workflow count and complexity) covering API updates when third-party platforms change, bug fixes, minor modifications, and monitoring alerts when workflows fail silently. Automations break, APIs deprecate, and business processes evolve, so planning for ongoing maintenance is not optional if you want the system to keep running a year from now.
Can AI automation replace my customer support team?
No, and I will not pitch that. AI handles triage, FAQ responses, ticket classification, and routing. Humans handle complex queries, edge cases, and any interaction where empathy or judgment matters. The realistic outcome: your support team handles 60–70% fewer routine tickets because AI resolves them, and your agents spend their time on the 30–40% of tickets that actually need a human. That is a different model than fully replacing agents, and it is the one that works in production.
What is the $500 audit and what do I get?
A 5–7 day engagement to identify the highest-ROI automation candidates in your operation. I review your current processes, tools, and data flows, then deliver a prioritised list of 3–5 automation projects with estimated effort, expected ROI, and recommended tooling. About 70% of audit clients convert the findings into a full project. The other 30% have enough clarity from the report to run the implementation internally.
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