Hi all- I am always excited when someone shares their business automations here because some are genuinely useful helping us run our business more efficiently.
Someone recently mentioned they auto-scrap podcast data to personalize cold emails, which felt like future was already here.
So to double down on that, curious, what automation made you feel like the future is already here?
Entrepreneurs, what automation made you feel like the future is already here?
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Approval workflows.
Sounds boring compared to AI scrapers and cold email tools, but the moment we stopped chasing approvals over WhatsApp and email and they just… happened automatically, it felt genuinely different. Right person gets notified, they approve or flag it, next step triggers on its own. No follow-up, no “did you see my message”, no waiting. Something that used to take 2-3 days now takes 2-3 hours. Not because anyone works faster, just because the system doesn’t forget and doesn’t wait.
That felt like the future to me.
Our team built a automated personalized outreach system where using N8N we scrapes a lead’s website, generates a Loom-style video using HeyGen for the talking avatar and ElevenLabs for my cloned voice, then stitches in dynamic website screenshots and sends it automatically via email! It’s crazy how good the actual end video is considering it’s all automation! This clearly felt like future!
Similarly, we no longer use an agency for social media and SEO! Our team has setup a daily automation using AI that is trained on our products and business data to automatically look at Google search data to publish relevant blogs on our website, helping us show up more often on both google and tools like ChatGPT etc! The same tool also handles our social media posting on Facebook and linkedin now! You can set it up to just cross share the blogs or come up with entirely different set of posts!
Finally, we set up a missed-call recovery engine using Retell so whenever a potential customer calls and I don’t pick up, the AI instantly calls them back, qualifies their intent, answers questions, and books them into my calendar!
Following to see what others have 🙂