We buildAutomation · Marketing

Automation for marketing

n8nHubSpot / ActiveCampaignKlaviyoMeta + Google lead formsLLM scoringLooker Studio
Who it is for

Who a marketing automation agency
is built for.

01 Heads of marketing and CMOs

You have the platform licence; the journeys, scoring and reports in it were never fully built.

02 Owners and e-commerce stores without a marketing team

Leads come in from forms and ads, and follow-up happens when someone remembers.

03 Marketing ops and RevOps

You run HubSpot, Klaviyo or ActiveCampaign and need the integrations the platform does not ship.

04 Service companies with a long sales cycle

Clinics, law firms, real estate and B2B sales teams that need lead scoring and nurturing, not blasts.

The problem

Why marketing by hand
costs more than it looks.

Numbers from Ascend2’s marketing automation research and a 2025 small-business survey — the platforms are bought, the journeys are rarely finished.

of marketers have fully or mostly automated their multichannel campaigns; the rest run them by hand or not at all (Ascend2, 2023).

Backlinko, marketing automation statistics ↗

of marketers fully agree their platform makes building a customer journey easy (Ascend2, 2024).

Backlinko, marketing automation statistics ↗

have both a marketing automation platform and a customer data platform that are not integrated; only 18% run them connected (Adobe).

Backlinko, marketing automation statistics ↗

call their marketing automation “very successful”; 66% say only “somewhat successful” (Ascend2, 2023).

Backlinko, marketing automation statistics ↗

of small businesses name a lack of time and resources as the barrier to automation, and 34% a lack of clear use cases and ROI.

Reimagine Main Street AI survey, 2025 ↗

choose a marketing automation platform on price and 54% on ease of use (Ascend2, 2022) — and then need someone to set it up.

Backlinko, marketing automation statistics ↗
Your numbersWhat does this cost you?

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

What is a marketing automation agency?

A marketing automation agency builds the working layer between your lead sources and your sales team: capturing leads from forms and ads, cleaning and enriching them, scoring them, sending the right sequence and reporting what each channel cost. Most companies already own a platform for this. What is missing is the setup — only about a quarter of marketers have automated their multichannel campaigns, and fewer than a third find building a customer journey in their platform easy.

We build marketing automation around the tools you already use — HubSpot, ActiveCampaign, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, your CRM and your ad accounts — rather than selling a new one. A new lead starts the run: it is deduplicated, enriched and checked for consent; a language model scores it against your ideal customer profile and writes a summary; hot leads reach a rep in minutes, the rest enter a nurture sequence you approved. Replies are classified and routed, a weekly sweep reactivates silent contacts, and Google Ads, Meta Ads, GA4 and CRM data land in one dashboard.

What changes with automated marketing

Automating marketing turns follow-up from something that depends on who remembers into something that happens every time, within minutes, with consent recorded. Sales gets context instead of a bare email address, the team spends its time on the offer and the creative, and marketing and automation finally report in the same numbers.

The workflow

Automated marketing workflow:
13 nodes from form to report.

The run path of one lead. Each lead travels it on its own; anything without consent or outside the rules stops and goes to a person.

Every node

Every node of the
marketing automation workflow.

Capture & enrich
01Trigger

New lead

Webhooks from website forms, Meta and Google lead forms, webinar sign-ups and Calendly bookings start a run per lead.

02Code

Normalise and dedupe

Cleans email and phone formats, matches the contact against HubSpot, ActiveCampaign or Klaviyo, and merges instead of creating a duplicate.

03HTTP

Enrich the company

Looks up company size, industry and site from Apollo or Clearbit-style APIs and the website itself.

04IF

Consent recorded?

Only contacts with a recorded opt-in go into email and SMS sequences (CAN-SPAM, TCPA); the rest get a sales task only.

Score & route
05Model call

Read the answers

A language model reads the free-text answers and the company site, scores fit against your ICP and writes a two-line summary for the rep.

06IF

Hot lead?

High scores go to sales within minutes with the summary in Slack; the rest enter a nurture sequence.

07HTTP

Create CRM records

Writes the contact, company, source and score to HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive and assigns an owner by territory or round-robin.

08HTTP

Notify the rep

Slack or email card with the lead, the summary and a one-click call or email action.

Nurture & report
09Model call

Personalise the sequence

Drafts the welcome and nurture emails from your approved templates, filling in industry and use-case details — tone and offer stay as you approved them.

10Loop

Send and wait

Sends each step through your platform, waits for opens, replies or a booking, and exits the sequence as soon as the contact responds or buys.

11Model call

Classify replies

Sorts replies as interested, not now, question or unsubscribe and routes each one; unsubscribes are honoured immediately.

12Set

Reactivation sweep

Weekly selection of contacts with no activity in 90 days gets one personal message; still-silent contacts are tagged and left alone.

13Code

Channel report

Pulls Google Ads, Meta Ads, GA4 and CRM data into BigQuery or Sheets and builds the Looker Studio dashboard with cost per lead and per opportunity by channel.

Before / after

Automating marketing follow-up:
before and after.

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

By hand19 minper item
  • Export the lead from the form or ad account2 min
  • Clean, dedupe and enrich the contact4 min
  • Add to the right segment and sequence3 min
  • Write and send the first follow-up5 min
  • Hand the lead to sales with context3 min
  • Log the source for the channel report2 min
With the flow1.5 minper item, hands-on
  • Export the lead from the form or ad accountauto
  • Clean, dedupe and enrich the contact18 sec
  • Add to the right segment and sequenceauto
  • Write and send the first follow-up1 min
  • Hand the lead to sales with context12 sec
  • Log the source for the channel reportauto
Your numbers

What automation for marketing
saves at your volume.

Based on 19 min by hand and 1.5 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

Marketing and automation,
with you in control.

The flow captures, scores, routes and sends. People keep the strategy and every message a customer sees for the first time.

The flow does13 steps · every run
New lead
flow
Normalise and dedupe
flow
Enrich the company
flow
Consent recorded?
flow
Read the answers
flow
Hot lead?
flow
Create CRM records
flow
Notify the rep
flow
Personalise the sequence
flow
Send and wait
flow
Classify replies
flow
Reactivation sweep
flow
Channel report
flow
You decide6 steps · always a person
Strategy, positioning and the offer

What you sell, to whom and at what price is never decided by a workflow.

you
Copy and creative approval

Every template and sequence is approved by you before the first send; the model only fills in details.

you
Lead qualification rules

Your sales lead sets what a good lead looks like; the flow applies it.

you
Hot leads and negotiation

The flow hands them over with a summary; the conversation is yours.

you
Consent and compliance

CAN-SPAM and TCPA rules are built into the flow, and a person decides the edge cases.

you
What gets measured

You pick the KPIs the dashboard reports on before the first sequence runs.

you

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

Connects to

Marketing automation
for HubSpot, Klaviyo and more.

Results

What good marketing automation looks like
and what we build toward.

Benchmarks from Ascend2’s State of Marketing Automation research (via Backlinko) and the Reimagine Main Street small-business AI survey, 2025.

0%
of marketers run a mostly or fully automated customer journey (Ascend2, 2024)
0%
automate email, 49% social media, 33% content — the most automated areas
0%
of small businesses see the biggest AI impact in marketing and customer work
How we work

How a marketing 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

Marketing automation questions
we hear every time.

We already have HubSpot — why a marketing automation agency?

The licence gives you the tools; the journeys, scoring, integrations and reports still have to be designed and built. We finish that work inside your HubSpot, Klaviyo or ActiveCampaign, and connect the sources the platform does not reach on its own.

Do we have to change our CRM or email platform?

No. Automated marketing is built around what you already pay for. The flow writes into your platform through its API and reads from your ad accounts and GA4; switching tools is a separate decision, not a requirement.

Will automated marketing emails look like spam?

Every sequence starts from templates you approved, goes only to contacts with recorded consent, and exits the moment someone replies or buys. The model personalises details, not the offer, so the emails read as yours.

How do you measure the ROI of marketing automation?

We agree the metrics before building: speed to first contact, lead-to-opportunity rate, cost per lead by channel, sequence replies. The channel dashboard reports them weekly, so the result is visible rather than estimated.

How long before the first sequences run?

A lead-capture and scoring flow with one nurture sequence usually runs within the first weeks; more sequences and the reporting layer follow. Each step goes live on its own, so you see value before the whole system is finished.

How does AI help with personalisation?

A language model reads the form answers and the company site, scores the lead and writes a short summary for the rep, then fills industry and use-case details into your approved templates. Tone, claims and the offer stay exactly as you wrote them.

What should a small team automate first?

Usually lead capture into the CRM with deduplication, instant notification of the rep, and one welcome sequence. That is the automation for marketing that pays back fastest; reporting and reactivation come next.

Also automated

More flows
next door.

Available for new projects

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by hand?

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