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Zapier, monday.com, Google Calendar, Slack, Gmail
Built an end-to-end offboarding workflow triggered by a subscription status change in monday.com.
The automation creates a calendar event for the offboarding date, then branches based on the action required:
it either archives the client's Slack channel and moves the record to the archived board group
or flags the account for hold/confirmation and notifies the assigned team member by email.
Reduced manual offboarding steps across four tools into a single automated trigger.
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How I Saved a Venture-Backed Founder 15 Hours a Week by Auditing Their Inbox Noise
If you look at a busy founder’s calendar, you will usually find a bottleneck. They are trapped spending 3–4 hours a day answering baseline queries, sorting calendar invites, and managing basic operational friction instead of closing sales or scaling their product.
When I took over operations for a growth-stage tech startup founder last quarter, their inbox was a war zone, over 200 unread messages a day, mixing critical investor updates with low-tier software notifications.
Here is the exact 3-step administrative framework I used to clear the noise, protect their time, and optimize their daily workflow:
1. The 3-Tier Labeling Architecture
We built an asynchronous protocol where emails are strictly filtered into three categories upon arrival:
Action Required (Tier 1): Time-sensitive matters requiring the founder’s personal sign-off.
Watchlist (Tier 2): Industry updates, project tracking, or team movements to be reviewed in a single 15-minute block at the end of the day.
Handled (Tier 3): Administrative, scheduling, or vendor tasks that I resolve entirely without interrupting their focus.
2. Guarding the Calendar Like a Gatekeeper
We stopped allowing external tools to book meetings directly onto the main calendar without a buffer. Every meeting request now undergoes an intensive alignment check: Is there a clear agenda? Can this be handled via a brief Slack update or video memo? By enforcing asynchronous rules, we cut down active meeting time by 35%.
3. Creating Predictable Communication Blocks
Instead of checking notifications every 10 minutes, the founder now operates on two dedicated 30-minute communication windows daily. The rest of the day is preserved for deep work and high-level strategy.
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I joined this year's Config Makeathon and decided to build something inspired by a problem I've repeatedly encountered while working in CRM and lifecycle marketing.
CRM platforms are built around flows, campaigns, and automations. Customers are not.
When trying to understand what a customer actually experienced, I often found myself jumping between multiple journeys, templates, campaigns, and reports just to answer a simple question:
What happened, why did it happen, and what happens next?
So I built Trace.
Trace is a lifecycle debugging tool that helps teams:
• Replay customer journeys in a single timeline
• Understand why communications were triggered
• Simulate future customer experiences before launch
• Review every message in one place
• Identify journey conflicts and lifecycle issues before they impact customers
The idea came from real CRM consulting work. To bring it to life, I used ChatGPT to refine the concept, challenge assumptions, and iterate on the product structure, then used Figma Make to rapidly turn those ideas into a working prototype. After several rounds of prompting, testing, and revisions, the concept evolved into the MVP shown here.
The project was designed and prototyped entirely in Figma Make.
Would love to hear your thoughts!
🎥 Try the demo: https://tracedebug.figma.site/dashboard
🧩 Figma Community: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1647280144583934618
Most businesses are paying $50–$200/month for Zapier or Make just to connect their apps.
There's a better way.
With self-hosted n8n, you build the same automations — or more powerful ones — and pay zero platform fees. Your workflows run on your own server, your data stays private, and you scale without watching a usage meter.
What I automate for clients:
→ CRM updates triggered by form submissions
→ WhatsApp notifications after a sale or appointment
→ Automated reports sent every Monday morning
→ Lead data flowing from Instagram directly into spreadsheets
No Zapier. No Make. No monthly fees.
Just automation that works.
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