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Automation for every kind of marketing agency.

SEO, PPC, GoHighLevel and web design agencies all lose hours to the same back-office work. Here is what I build for each type, based on systems already running in production.

SEO & local SEO agencies

Search Console · GA4 · geo-grid rank tracking · Ahrefs · GBP

Your strategists spend Monday pulling the same numbers from five tools for every client. Wins get missed, unindexed pages pile up, and a lost Business Profile is only noticed when the calls stop.

Weekly report on autopilot

Search Console, GA4 and map-pack rank for every client, scored with your own health formula and written into your tracking sheet or Slack.

Claude skill · weekly SEO report

Client wins, found for you

Compares this period with the same period last year (clicks, organic sessions, forms, calls, page-one keywords) and drafts a post only when there is a real win.

Claude skill + Slack bot · client wins

Rank grid and CTR checks

Live geo-grid ranks by client name with trend changes, plus a branded CTR check that flags any client under 10%.

Claude skills · rank grid check, branded CTR

Indexing and audits

Unindexed pages found and submitted after approval. Competitor audits built from a grid export, with every recommendation tied to a real competitor difference.

Claude skills · index checker, local audit

Links and press releases

Chamber of commerce link opportunities ranked by SEO value, and press releases researched, written and checked before they go to distribution.

Claude skills · chamber links, press releases

Profile and site alerts

New reviews, Business Profile invites, lost access, suspensions, failed video verification, new Search Console owners and sites going down, all routed to the right channel.

Make · email parsing → Slack + ClickUp

PPC & paid social agencies

Google Ads · Local Services Ads · Meta · GoHighLevel

A declined card or a policy flag stops a client’s ads, and the first person to notice is often the client. Billing emails sit in a shared inbox, and call leads reach the team late.

Suspension and past-due alerts

Google’s “service suspended” and “account suspended” emails are parsed for the amount due, customer ID and payments profile, then posted to the PPC and LSA teams.

Make · mailhook → Slack

Declined payments

Declined-payment emails from Google Ads and Meta reach the CSM and billing within minutes, with the account ID attached.

Make · mailhook → Slack

LSA policy pauses

When Local Services Ads pauses an account, the customer ID is pulled out, an urgent ClickUp task is created due in 3 days, and Slack is alerted.

Make · mailhook → ClickUp + Slack

Call leads and case studies

PPC call leads from GoHighLevel go straight to the team, and campaign wins become draft social posts with the real numbers.

Make · GHL webhook, Client Wins bot

GoHighLevel agencies

GHL workflows · webhooks · sub-accounts · Slack · Sheets

GHL holds the leads, but your team lives in Slack and ClickUp. Bookings, no-shows and positive replies get missed, and every new client needs a sub-account built by hand.

Bookings and no-shows

Appointments booked in GHL post to the sales team with contact and calendar details. Trial opportunities moved to “No Show” trigger a follow-up.

Make · GHL webhook → Slack

Follow-up nudges

Day-2 and day-5 cold email follow-ups and reactivation flags become Slack reminders, so setters chase the right leads at the right time.

Make · GHL workflow → Slack

Positive replies, logged

A positive reply pings the team in Slack, logs the lead in the outreach sheet and updates ClickUp in one go.

Make · webhook → Slack, Sheets, ClickUp

Close to sub-account

A closed client’s post-close form starts a new GHL sub-account, and website forms push leads straight into the client’s pipeline.

Make · form → GHL

Web design & development agencies

Google Forms · Drive · Sheets · WordPress · uptime monitoring

Every build starts with chasing the client for content and logins, and every launch is followed by “is the site down?” emails.

Onboarding by package

One onboarding form per package (web, web plus SEO, web plus SEO plus LSA). The scenario finds the client in your master list, copies the right template into their Drive folder and fills in every answer.

Make · Forms → Drive + Sheets

Client upload alerts

When a client drops photos or files into their folder, the team gets a Slack alert with the file count and a folder link.

Make · Drive → Slack

Site down, team told

Uptime monitor emails become a Slack alert naming the client site, so nobody has to watch the inbox.

Make · mailhook → Slack

Location pages from a sheet

Prepared location page content in a Google Sheet is imported into WordPress in batches.

Make · Sheets → WordPress

Every agency: the operations layer

ClickUp · Slack · Google Workspace · Stripe

Whatever you sell, the same work keeps the agency running: onboarding, client health, churn, billing and team reporting.

Post-close onboarding

The closer submits one form and the whole onboarding setup is built: folders, sheets, ClickUp tasks and the Slack announcement.

Make · Post Close Form

Client health and churn

Health drops alert the CSM and team (772 runs, 0 errors). Churned clients are offboarded with the reason, client age and next steps (896 runs, 0 errors).

Make · ClickUp → Slack

ClickUp and sheet in sync

Client details changed in ClickUp are copied to the master client sheet automatically (902 runs, 0 errors). Payment status is checked every 15 minutes (2,880 runs, 0 errors).

Make · ClickUp ↔ Google Sheets

Billing and team reports

Failed Stripe payments and card-update forms become ClickUp tasks for billing. End-of-day sales reports and meeting reminders post to Slack.

Make · Stripe email, Google Forms → Slack
See packagesRun counts come from the live Make scenario records.

More automations I build

From what other agency automation providers offer and what agencies ask for

The packages above cover the most common problems, but most agencies need something specific. These are other builds I take on. They are quoted as a custom build or added to an Orbit plan. Unlike the sections above, they are not presented as systems already running.

Sales & lead handling

Speed-to-lead

New form or ad leads get a text and email within a minute, and the right rep is assigned and pinged.

Missed-call text-back

A missed call to the client’s number gets an automatic SMS so the lead isn’t lost to voicemail.

Lead scoring and routing

Leads from forms, ads and LinkedIn are scored on your rules and routed by service, area or budget.

Proposal to kickoff

An accepted proposal creates the invoice, the kickoff call and the onboarding tasks in one go.

Contract and payment chasers

Unsigned contracts and unpaid deposits get reminders by email and SMS until they’re done.

Database reactivation

Old leads and past customers get a reactivation sequence, and replies go straight to sales.

SEO & content

Keyword research to sheet

Keyword volume, difficulty and ranking gaps collected into Google Sheets for each client.

Brief and outline generator

A new keyword in the sheet produces a content brief, outline, meta description and FAQs for review.

Publishing pipeline

Approved drafts go to WordPress or Webflow with images, schema and internal links, then get submitted for indexing.

On-page and schema checks

Scheduled scans for missing titles, broken links, schema errors and slow pages, with a task per issue.

Rank drop alerts

A client keyword falling off page one or out of the map pack posts an alert with the before and after.

GBP post scheduler

Business Profile posts and photos scheduled for every location from one sheet.

PPC monitoring

Budget pacing alerts

Daily spend checked against the monthly budget, with an alert before an account overspends or underspends.

KPI anomaly alerts

CTR, CPC, conversion rate and cost per lead compared with past weeks; sharp swings are flagged in Slack.

Account offline alerts

An ad account that stops serving for any reason, such as a card, budget or policy issue, alerts the team.

Disapproved ads and broken URLs

Disapprovals and landing pages returning errors are caught daily, not at the monthly review.

Search term mining

New search terms grouped into negatives and opportunities for the strategist to approve.

Lead quality feedback

Closed-won and junk leads from the CRM are sent back to Google and Meta as offline conversions.

Local & home-service clients

Review requests

After a job is marked done, the customer gets a review request; happy customers are sent to Google, unhappy ones to the owner.

Review reply drafts

New Google reviews get an AI-drafted reply for a human to approve and post.

Job and estimate sync

Leads and jobs synced between GHL and field-service tools such as ServiceTitan or JobNimbus.

Appointment reminders

Booking confirmations and reminders by SMS and email to cut no-shows.

Call tracking to CRM

Tracked calls logged in the CRM with source, recording and outcome.

Seasonal campaigns

Maintenance and seasonal offers sent to past customers on a schedule.

Client operations & billing

Client portal updates

Task progress and deliverables pushed to a client portal or a weekly client email.

Monthly report delivery

Looker Studio, AgencyAnalytics or PDF reports sent on schedule with an AI-written summary.

Retainer renewals

Contract end dates watched, with renewal tasks and upsell notes for the account manager.

Invoice and dunning flows

Invoices created from ClickUp or the CRM; failed payments retried with reminders.

Time and profitability

Hours from time tracking compared with each retainer, with an alert when a client goes over budget.

Offboarding checklist

Access removed, files handed over and the exit survey sent when a client leaves.

AI assistants & internal tools

SOP and knowledge bot

A Slack bot that answers team questions from your SOPs and client notes.

Meeting notes to tasks

Call recordings turned into summaries, action items and ClickUp tasks.

Ad copy and creative variants

Headlines, descriptions and primary text drafted in bulk for testing.

Competitor watch

Competitor sites, ads and reviews checked weekly, with changes summarised.

Daily team digest

One morning Slack post with new leads, overdue tasks, alerts and client health.

Hiring pipeline

Applications screened, scored and scheduled for interviews.

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