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Agency Workflows

Sixteen workflows that carry a client from signature to case study. Account managers keep the relationship; the spreadsheet relay goes away.

Install
Scoped per agency
Timeline
A twelve week engagement
Runs on
Your own n8n
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16

workflows

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46

hrs/mo returned

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12

week engagement

Agencies do not lose clients on the work. They lose them on the invoice that went out late and the report nobody ran.

how it runs

SignatureOnboardingSame every timeTemplatedStays humanTime to invoiceCase study
One account team pilots it for a month while everyone else carries on as normal. The rollout happens when that team refuses to go back.

the workflows

  1. 01

    Client onboarding

    Signature triggers the folder, the channel, the access requests and the kickoff brief, so week one is the work rather than the setup.

  2. 02

    Proposal generation

    Scope and pricing assembled from your own past proposals, in your format, ready to edit rather than ready to start.

  3. 03

    White-label reporting

    Client-facing reports built and sent on schedule under your brand, from the platforms directly, with no screenshot step.

  4. 04

    Time to invoice

    Tracked time turned into a draft invoice against the retainer, with overages flagged before they become an awkward conversation.

  5. 05

    Retainer alerts

    Burn rate watched against the agreement, so you hear about a client going over in week two rather than at the end of the month.

how it holds up

  • 01

    We shadow one live client first

    A real account goes through your current process while we time every handoff. The workflow is built from what actually happens, not from the process document.

  • 02

    Only the identical steps get templated

    The parts that are the same every time become the workflow. The parts that change per client stay with the account manager.

  • 03

    One team pilots it

    A single account team runs it for a month while everyone else carries on as normal, so a bad assumption costs one team a month rather than the agency a quarter.

  • 04

    Rollout waits for refusal

    We move the other teams across once the pilot team refuses to go back. That is a better signal than any adoption metric.

what it will not do

  • It will not rescue an underpriced retainer. If the scope was wrong at signature, this makes the loss arrive faster and more legibly, which is useful but not pleasant. 

  • The 46 hours is agency-wide per month, not per account manager, and it assumes you currently do the reporting and invoicing by hand. 

  • Client-specific work stays manual on purpose. An agency whose every account runs differently has less to template than it thinks. 

  • Your clients still need to hear from a person. Automating the admin is not the same as automating the relationship, and confusing the two is how agencies lose accounts. 

you supply

  • Access to your PM, time tracking and invoicing tools
  • One account team willing to pilot for a month
  • Your existing proposal and report formats

running cost

Your existing tool subscriptions plus modest model cost on the drafting steps. Nothing new to license per seat.

Billed by your own providers, not by us. There is no platform fee and no seat count.

InstallAgency?

Scoped per agency, a twelve week engagement. Tell us about your setup and we will confirm it fits before taking anything.