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Automation for your CRM

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Who it is for

Who CRM automation
is built for.

01 Sales leaders and RevOps

Your pipeline meeting starts with reps updating stages they should have updated last week.

02 Marketing leads handing leads to sales

Leads from ads and forms reach the CRM late, duplicated or without a source.

03 Owners whose CRM nobody fills in

You pay for HubSpot or Pipedrive and still run the business from your inbox.

04 CRM admins and customer success

You clean duplicates every quarter and chase reps for notes before renewals.

The problem

Why a CRM filled by hand
costs more than it looks.

Numbers from CRM data and sales research — the CRM is bought, the data in it is not trusted, and reps spend most of their day on something other than selling.

of CRM users say less than half of their organisation’s CRM data is accurate and complete (602 respondents).

Validity, State of CRM Data Management 2025 ↗

of CRM users report direct revenue loss from poor data quality.

Validity, State of CRM Data Management 2025 ↗

of a salesperson’s time goes to selling; the rest is deal management, data entry and admin (7,775 respondents).

Salesforce, State of Sales ↗

of CRM users admit they sometimes falsify data — 33% often, 42% occasionally — to get the fields filled.

VentureBeat, citing Validity ↗

of CRM implementations fail to meet their planned goals.

Johnny Grow, CRM failure rate ↗

of companies lose more than 10% of annual revenue to CRM data quality problems.

VentureBeat, citing Validity ↗
Your numbersWhat does this cost you?

Put your monthly volume into the calculator and see hours and dollars.

What is CRM automation?

CRM automation takes the manual path a lead follows — create the contact, research the company, assign it, write up the call, update the stage, write the follow-up, fix the duplicate later — and runs it as a workflow around the CRM you already have. The CRM itself is rarely the problem. The problem is that filling it in is work nobody is paid for, so the data is incomplete, reps admit to inventing it, and most of a rep’s day goes to admin instead of selling.

We build automated CRM workflows on HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM or GoHighLevel rather than on a new system. A new lead starts the run: it is matched against existing records, created once with source and consent, enriched from Apollo-style APIs and the company site, scored by a language model and assigned by your rules, with a Slack card and a drafted first reply for the rep. After a call, the transcript becomes notes, tasks and a stage proposal the rep confirms. Every night the base is normalised, duplicates flagged and stale deals nudged.

What changes with customer relationship management automation

Reps stop typing and start reviewing: the data in the CRM becomes something the pipeline meeting can trust, leads reach the right person within minutes, and CRM and automation together give the sales lead a forecast built on activity rather than memory — while every customer-facing message is still approved by a person.

The workflow

Automated CRM workflow:
13 nodes from lead to clean data.

The run path of one lead. Each lead travels it on its own; uncertain duplicates and anything a customer would see stop and go to a person.

Every node

Every node of the
CRM workflow.

Capture
01Trigger

New lead

A form webhook, a Gmail or Outlook message, a Facebook or Google Lead Ads submission or an inbound call log starts a run.

02HTTP

Find existing record

Searches HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive by email, phone and domain before anything is created.

03IF

Duplicate?

A clear match updates the existing contact and adds a note; an uncertain match is queued for a person to merge; a new lead is created.

04HTTP

Create contact and deal

Writes the contact, company and deal with source, campaign and consent fields filled from the start.

Enrich & assign
05HTTP

Enrich the company

Pulls size, industry, location and site from Apollo-style APIs and the company website.

06Model call

Score and summarise

A language model rates fit against your ICP from the enrichment and the form answers and writes a three-line brief for the rep.

07Set

Assign the owner

Round-robin or territory rules set by your sales lead; the rep gets a Slack card with the brief and the next step.

08Model call

Draft the follow-up

Writes the first reply in your tone for the rep to approve — nothing goes to a customer unseen.

Keep it clean
09HTTP

Fetch the transcript

After a Zoom, Google Meet or phone call ends, the recording is transcribed (Whisper, Zoom or Gong) and attached to the deal.

10Model call

Notes and next step

Summarises the call, logs it on the deal, sets the next task and proposes the stage change for the rep to confirm.

11Loop

Stale deal check

Every night: deals with no activity for N days get a reminder to the rep, then a drafted check-in email after a second silence.

12Code

Nightly data hygiene

Normalises phones and addresses, flags duplicates and bounced emails, marks contacts untouched for a year as stale.

13HTTP

Deal won handover

Creates the customer in QuickBooks or Xero, the project in Asana or ClickUp and starts the onboarding sequence.

Before / after

CRM and automation:
before and after.

Typical minutes per lead for a rep in a small sales team. Your own numbers go into the calculator below.

By hand24 minper item
  • Create the contact and the deal by hand3 min
  • Research the company and fill the fields6 min
  • Assign the lead and tell the rep2 min
  • Write up the call and set the next step5 min
  • Update the deal stage before the pipeline meeting2 min
  • Write and schedule the follow-up4 min
  • Dedupe and fix the record later2 min
With the flow2.5 minper item, hands-on
  • Create the contact and the deal by handauto
  • Research the company and fill the fields18 sec
  • Assign the lead and tell the repauto
  • Write up the call and set the next step1 min
  • Update the deal stage before the pipeline meeting12 sec
  • Write and schedule the follow-up1 min
  • Dedupe and fix the record laterauto
Your numbers

What CRM automation
saves at your volume.

Based on 24 min by hand and 2.5 min with the flow per item, from the table above.

Every month0 hof hands-on work back
0 working days
$0 a month 0 a year 0 h instead of 0 h
You stay in control

Automated customer relationship management,
with you in control.

The flow creates, enriches, assigns, logs and cleans. People keep every conversation with a customer and every rule the flow follows.

The flow does13 steps · every run
New lead
flow
Find existing record
flow
Duplicate?
flow
Create contact and deal
flow
Enrich the company
flow
Score and summarise
flow
Assign the owner
flow
Draft the follow-up
flow
Fetch the transcript
flow
Notes and next step
flow
Stale deal check
flow
Nightly data hygiene
flow
Deal won handover
flow
You decide6 steps · always a person
Key leads and big deals

Qualifying a strategic account and deciding how to pursue it is the rep’s call.

you
AI summaries and drafts

Call notes and follow-up emails are reviewed by the rep before they are saved or sent.

you
Contested duplicates

Clear matches merge automatically; uncertain ones wait for a person.

you
Routing and scoring rules

Your sales lead defines the territories, the round-robin and what a good lead is.

you
Key-account communication

Important customers hear from a person, not a sequence.

you
Data access and consent

Which fields are stored, who sees them and how consent is recorded — set with you.

you

Flip a switch to hand a step to the flow or take it back.

Connects to

CRM automation
for HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and more.

Results

What a trusted CRM looks like
and what we build toward.

Benchmarks from Validity’s State of CRM Data Management 2025, Salesforce’s State of Sales research and Johnny Grow’s study of CRM implementation outcomes.

0%
of a rep’s time is spent selling today — the rest is what the flow takes over (Salesforce)
0%
of CRM users trust less than half their data — the gap dedupe and enrichment close (Validity)
0%
of CRM projects miss their goals — ours start from the data, not the licence (Johnny Grow)
How we work

How a CRM automation project
runs, week by week.

Week 1Audit

We map the process as it runs today, count the minutes and agree what the flow must never do on its own.

Weeks 2–3Prototype

A working flow on your real data, in a sandbox. You see every run and every exception.

Weeks 3–6Launch

Edge cases, approvals and alerts, then the switch-over — with the old way kept as a fallback.

AfterSupport

Monitoring, fixes when a vendor changes a format, and a monthly report of hours saved.

FAQ

CRM automation questions
we hear every time.

Do we have to move to a new CRM, or do you automate the one we have?

We automate the one you have. HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM and GoHighLevel all expose APIs, and the flow writes into your existing pipelines, fields and owners. Switching CRMs is a separate decision we will tell you honestly whether you need.

Can call and meeting notes be written into the CRM automatically?

Yes. After a Zoom, Google Meet or phone call the recording is transcribed, a language model writes the summary and next steps, and the rep confirms them with one click before they are saved to the deal. Reps stop typing notes and the pipeline stops depending on memory.

How does automated CRM data entry avoid duplicates and junk?

Every lead is matched by email, phone and domain before a record is created, clear matches update the existing contact, and uncertain ones wait for a person to merge. A nightly job normalises phones and addresses and flags bounces, so the base gets cleaner over time rather than fuller.

How is this different from the built-in workflows in HubSpot or Salesforce?

Built-in workflows are good at moving fields inside the CRM. Customer relationship management automation also needs enrichment APIs, transcripts, a language model for scoring and summaries, and connections to accounting and project tools — the steps that happen outside the CRM.

How fast does a new lead reach a rep?

Within minutes of the form, email or ad submission: the record is created, enriched, scored and assigned, and the rep gets a Slack card with the brief and a drafted first reply. The flow runs around the clock, so a lead arriving at night is waiting in the morning.

Can you clean and enrich our existing contact base?

Yes, usually as the first step: duplicates found and merged by rule, phones and addresses normalised, bounced and stale contacts marked, companies enriched. CRM and automation only pay off when the data underneath is trusted.

Is customer data safe, and could an inappropriate automated email go out?

The flow runs on your server or cloud account with the narrowest API scopes, and consent is recorded on every record. Nothing written by the model is sent to a customer without a rep approving it; sequences stop the moment a contact replies.

Also automated

More flows
next door.

Available for new projects

Still doing this
by hand?

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