AI workflow automation for small businesses, the handful worth having.
AI workflow automation for UK small businesses: the first reply to every enquiry, the follow-ups and the content you repeat, running in your voice with a person checking, set up in the £500 flat fee.
How much does AI automation cost?
The handful of automations that fit your business are part of the £500 set-up, alongside the source of truth and the tool. The automation tools themselves usually run on free tiers; a paid tier is usually under £30 a month.
A bigger build, a lead-handling system, a CRM wired in, a content pipeline that runs on its own, is scoped as one or more sprints, each with a fixed price, agreed before anything starts. The detail is on AI marketing pricing.
What can AI automate for a small business?
The jobs you do the same way every week. A first reply to every enquiry within minutes, in your voice, for you to approve. A follow-up after every job or call. One conversation a month turned into a page, an email and a set of posts.
Not everything that is possible: the handful worth the upkeep. If one is not worth having, I say so before building it.
Will automated replies put customers off?
Not if they sound like you. Every reply is written from your source of truth: your words, your prices, the questions you always ask. A template that starts "Thank you for your enquiry" is what puts people off.
And every customer-facing message goes through a person first, until you are confident enough to remove that step.
Which tools do you build with?
Make, Zapier or a small script on your own hosting, whichever fits the job and the budget, connected to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini and to the email, CRM and calendar you already use.
I do not resell a platform and I take no commission from any tool, so you get the simplest thing that works, in accounts in your name.
Can you build a bigger system?
Yes, as sprints after the set-up. A lead-handling system that captures, replies and follows up. A CRM wired into the website. A content pipeline that turns one recording into a month of material.
Each sprint has a fixed price and a date, agreed first. Nothing is added to the £500 without you seeing it.
Has it worked before?
Aspire 1 Coaching had a good service and no way to capture a lead. I built the whole path: a landing page, an ebook lead magnet, a CRM pipeline and an automated email sequence that follows up on its own.
For MN Online Coach, a lead magnet landing page added 30 people to the mailing list within a day of Mac promoting it, with no ads.
Outstanding service from Gareth! He took care of everything, from setting up automations to creating lead magnets. Excited for what we can achieve together. Highly recommend!
Questions people ask before they start.
The jobs you repeat, done in your voice.
Book the 30-minute call, or ring 07451 260050. Tell me how an enquiry reaches you today, and I will say what is worth automating first.
AI for marketing · one flat fee
One sitting, then it is yours.
“Had an extremely helpful call with Gareth, who was extremely knowledgeable, clear and concise. Giving me a perfect structure upon how to put together my marketing for my business.”