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The actual problem
You did not start a business to write follow-up emails
The work that pays you is not the work that fills your week. The admin is not hard. It is just endless, and it is all sitting in your inbox waiting for you.
Your week now
- Good enquiries go cold because nobody chased them
- A proposal takes an evening you did not have
- Social media is a second job you never applied for
- The admin only gets done after everyone else is asleep
Your week after the playbook
- Every enquiry gets a follow-up sequence without you remembering
- Proposals start as a draft, not a blank page
- A month of posts drafted and scheduled in one sitting
- You review and approve instead of writing from scratch
Each line on the right is one of the seven workflows below. Nothing here is aspirational.
What you get
Seven workflows. Seven things off your plate.
A workflow is a small setup that does one job for you automatically. Each one comes with a written guide, instructions you copy and paste, and a checklist you finish the same day. You do not have to do them in order, but the order is the fastest path.
Build Your AI Team
You finish with: A personalised AI workspace and five starter prompts
Write Like a Pro
You finish with: A proposal template and reusable email sequences
Talk, Don't Type
You finish with: A voice-to-action workflow you run from your phone
Get More Customers
You finish with: A lead follow-up pipeline and outreach sequence
Build Automation Workflows
You finish with: Three to five live automations running in the background
Automate Your Content
You finish with: A 30-day content calendar with drafts and scheduling
Run a Leaner Business
You finish with: A weekly review checklist and next-workflow roadmap
How it works
Three steps, then repeat six times
Pick the job you hate most
Open the workflow that matches it. Follow-ups, proposals, content, lead filtering, admin. Each guide names the job in plain English.
Copy the setup, step by step
The guide tells you which tool to open, what to click, and what to paste. Two to four hours, once. No code at any point.
Let it run, then take the next one
The workflow keeps working without you. Come back the following week and do the next one. Three running inside 30 days is the pace.
Proof, the honest version
We have no testimonials to show you yet
AutomateFirst launched recently. Plenty of pages at this price would fill this space with invented five-star quotes. Instead, here are three things you can check for yourself in about two minutes, before you spend anything.
Read the library first
201 AI tools and guides for small businesses, each one summarised and rated in plain English. Free, no email required. It is the same research desk that feeds the playbook.
Browse the libraryThe whole curriculum is public
Every workflow, how long it takes, and what you finish with, all published before you pay. If the contents page does not convince you, the product would not have either.
Read the curriculumThe guarantee is in writing
One email with your receipt inside 30 days and you get a full refund. No form, no reason required, processed to your original card. The policy page says exactly this.
Read the refund policyWhen customers start sending results, we will publish them here with names attached. Until then this section stays as it is.
Is this for you?
Written for busy owners, not for tech people
We would rather you skip this than buy it and want your money back. Read both columns.
Buy it if
- ·You run a service, consulting, e-commerce or agency business
- ·You lose 10 or more hours a week to work a system could do
- ·You have heard about AI for two years and still have not started
- ·You have no tech team and do not want to hire one
- ·You want a system you can run, not a course you can watch
Skip it if
- ·You want to learn to code or build software
- ·Your business is already running on automations
- ·You want someone to build it all for you instead
- ·You need a certificate or an academic credential
- ·You will not put aside two hours to do the first one
Still deciding
Which workflow should you start with?
Five questions. Tells you which of the seven to open first.
Question 1 of 5
What eats most of your time?
Do the math
What is the busywork already costing you?
Move the two sliders. Your hours, your rate, the arithmetic shown in full. No invented scores, no hidden formula.
Emails, quotes, follow-ups, invoicing, posting, admin.
What you bill, or what your time earns the business.
What that costs you
$20,800 / year
The math: 8 hrs × $50/hr × 52 weeks = $20,800
Not all of it can be automated. But most of it is exactly the kind of work the seven workflows are built to take off your plate.
Find your three best automations, freeOne playbook. One price.
What the alternatives cost
| AutomateFirst | A day workshop | Hiring it out | Doing nothing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | USD 297 once | USD 1,000 to 5,000 | USD 2,000+ per build | Your evenings |
| You keep it | Forever | Notes from one day | Until it breaks | Nothing changes |
| Pace | One session a week | One fixed date | Their calendar | No pace |
| Needs coding | No | Sometimes | Not your problem | No |
| Refundable | 30 days | Rarely | No | n/a |
Everything in the playbook, for one payment
If one workflow saves you two hours a week, the playbook has paid for itself before you reach the second one. If it does not, ask for the money back.
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Before you buy
The questions people actually ask
Do you have customer testimonials?+
Not yet, and we are not going to fake them. AutomateFirst launched recently and we would rather show you what you can check yourself: the full curriculum is published at /course before you pay, the tool library is free to read with no signup, and the refund policy is written down at /refund. If that is not enough proof for you, wait for the reviews. That is a reasonable thing to do.
Do I need coding skills?+
No. If you can use Google and copy and paste, you can do this. Every workflow is written for someone who has never automated anything, and each step tells you exactly what to click and what to type.
What do I actually get for $297?+
Seven written workflow guides, a copy-and-paste prompt library for email, proposals and content, a PDF checklist per workflow, email support, and lifetime access including future updates. One payment. There is no subscription and no upsell.
How long before I see anything work?+
The first workflow takes about two hours and produces something you can use the same day. The playbook is paced for three useful automations running inside 30 days if you do roughly one session a week.
Will the tools cost me extra?+
The workflows are built on free tiers wherever possible. ChatGPT, Claude, Notion, Zapier and Make all have free plans that cover what the playbook teaches. If a paid tier is genuinely worth it for a workflow, we say so and tell you the price.
I run a very specific kind of business. Will this fit?+
The playbook is built for service, consulting, e-commerce and agency businesses run by one person or a small team. The workflows are patterns, not scripts for one industry: the same follow-up sequence works for a bookkeeper, a plumber and a design studio. Read the free guides to see the pattern applied to a business like yours before you buy.
What if it is not for me?+
Email support@automatefirst.co within 30 days with your receipt and we refund in full. No forms, no exit interview, no justification needed. The policy is published at /refund.
What format is the content, and can I use it on mobile?+
Written guides with step-by-step instructions, prompt templates and downloadable PDF checklists. The dashboard works on any device. Reading on your phone is fine; the setup steps are easier on a laptop because you are clicking between tools.
Want to see a workflow written out before you decide? The free guides walk through three of them end to end, for free.
One decision
Start with one workflow. Then build the next.
$297 once. Lifetime access. Thirty days to change your mind and get every cent back. The first workflow is running before dinner.