Automate the Half Your Client Never Sees.
You are the one buyer we write for who sells the same thing you would be buying, and that makes this an integrity question before it is an efficiency one. Your client is paying for judgement. If the deliverable is machine-made and they find out from somebody else, you have lost more than the account. Meanwhile the reporting, the campaign admin and the QA — the half nobody sees — is where most of your unbilled hours actually are.
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Client work is the product. This is the overhead.
None of the following is what your client is buying, and all of it is coming out of your margin.
- The monthly reporting packPer client, rebuilt every month
- Pulling numbers from six platformsEach with its own export
- Chasing the client for approvalsWhile the schedule slips
- Chasing the client for assetsLogos, photos, sign-off
- Checking campaigns went live correctlyThe QA nobody enjoys
- Qualifying enquiries that were never a fitA call to learn the budget
The first two rows are usually the largest single block of unbilled time in an agency, and they are the safest thing on this site to automate because the client never sees the process, only the pack. A report assembled automatically from your own platforms, with the commentary written by the person who understands the account, is genuinely better than one where somebody spent three hours copying numbers and had no time left to think about them.
Your client is buying judgement. Sell them judgement.
We should declare the obvious: we are an agency too, so this page is partly about ourselves and the same question sits on our desk. That is worth saying out loud rather than letting you notice it halfway down.
The line we would draw is between operations and deliverables. Operations — reporting assembly, data collection, QA checklists, approval chasing, internal briefs — is invisible to the client, enormous in hours, and carries no integrity question at all. Automate it hard. Nobody has ever chosen an agency because a human typed the numbers into the report by hand.
Deliverables are different, and the honest position is not “never”. It is that the value your client is paying for is the thinking: the angle, the judgement about their market, the decision about what not to say. A first draft that a strategist then reshapes is a tool. A finished deliverable nobody reshaped is a different product at the same price, and your client will eventually work that out — often when their own team starts using the same tools and recognises the shape.
The practical test we would apply: could you tell the client exactly how this was made, in a meeting, without changing your tone of voice? If yes, it is fine. If you would rather they did not ask, that is not a compliance problem to solve later — it is the answer.
- ✓Operations: automate hard — Reporting, data pulls, QA, chasing. No client ever sees it.
- ✓Deliverables: drafts, not output — The thinking is what they are paying for.
- ✓The meeting test — Could you explain how it was made, in the room, unbothered?
- ✓Your clients will ask — Increasingly, and their teams use the same tools.
- ✓We face this too — Stated rather than hidden. Same question, same desk.
Could you tell the client exactly how this was made, in a meeting, without changing your tone of voice?
What we build for an agency
Six builds, and the first two are usually the biggest block of unbilled time you have.
Reporting Packs, Assembled
Pulled from your platforms into your own template, per client, on schedule. The commentary stays human — and there is finally time to write it properly rather than at the end of a three-hour copying exercise.
One Number Source
Six platforms, six exports, six definitions of a conversion. Collected into one place with the definitions written down, which is worth as much as the time saved.
Launch QA Checklists
Did it actually go live, on the right account, with tracking attached and the right budget. Automated checking of the things that are embarrassing rather than difficult.
Approval and Asset Chasing
The reminder that goes out on time so the schedule stops slipping for reasons that are not your fault but are still your problem.
New Enquiry Qualification
Budget, timescale and scope established before the call, so you stop spending an hour discovering somebody wanted a logo for two hundred pounds.
Internal Briefs and Handovers
From the call to a structured brief the team can act on. Internal, invisible to the client, and it removes the “what did they actually ask for” conversation.
What clients say
Real clients, quoted in their own words — published with their permission.
“Ghalib’s clear guidance has helped improve our website’s SEO performance.”
“It was a pleasure working with Ghalib and his team.”
“We’re very thankful to Ghalib and his team for building a fully-functioning website for our business.”
More of them, in full, on our reviews page.
— Our Proprietary Methodology —
The Visibility Framework™, applied in Marketing Agencies
The method doesn’t change by market. What it’s pointed at does.
Audit The Hours
Where time actually goes, task by task, scored on volume, repetition and the cost of getting it wrong. Ends in a ranked blueprint with estimated hours saved — yours to keep either way.
Design The Guardrails
Before any building: what the agent may touch, where a human must approve, what happens when it is unsure, and which data is never allowed near a third-party model.
Build & Evaluate
One workflow at a time, in your accounts, scored against real examples from your business before it touches live work. Shipped early so it meets reality while it is still cheap to change.
Run & Improve
Monitored for cost, failures and quality drift. Models change, your business changes, and an automation nobody tends becomes a liability rather than an asset.
Honest, No-Nonsense Commitment
If the audit concludes that a task is not worth automating, we will tell you and refund the difference rather than build it anyway. And if a workflow we built does not hit the outcome we agreed in the blueprint, we keep working on it at no extra cost until it does or we take it out.
AI Automation pricing for Marketing Agencies, in GBP
Quoted in pounds. Worth saying plainly: we are an agency ourselves, so if you would rather not hand your client list to a competitor, that is a reasonable position and we will say so rather than talk you out of it. Reporting and QA builds need no client detail to scope.
Reporting
The biggest block of unbilled time.
- Packs assembled per client, on schedule
- One number source with definitions written down
- Commentary stays human, always
Agency Operations
The usual one. Adds QA, chasing and briefs.
- Everything in Reporting
- Launch QA checks across accounts
- Approval and asset chasing that runs itself
- Optional: bundle in SEO or Website Development
Multi-Client
Larger rosters, or white-label delivery.
- Per-client workflows with shared standards
- New enquiry qualification before the call
- Evaluated against your own accounts before going live
- Optional: combine all 4 services for full-funnel growth
Every plan is scoped around your market — start with a free first look and we’ll recommend what fits, priced in GBP.
What you’re actually committing to
Most agencies keep this in a contract you only see after the sales call. We would rather you knew now, because it is the question everyone asks second — right after the price.
- The audit is credited, not sunkPay for the audit, and the full amount comes off the build if you proceed. If you don’t, the blueprint is still yours to hand to anyone else.
- A fixed build price after the auditQuoted once we know what we are building. If it takes longer than we estimated, that is our risk — the price only moves if you change the scope.
- You own everythingAccounts, API keys, workflows, prompts, evaluation sets, logs and documentation — all in your name from day one, and still yours if we never work together again.
- Running costs are yours and visibleAPI usage is billed by the provider directly to you. We never resell tokens or mark up usage, and you see the real number.
- The retainer is month to month30 days’ notice, no exit fee. Stop it and your automations keep running — you are simply maintaining them yourself.
- Human approval is the defaultAnything customer-facing or irreversible needs a person until the evaluation data justifies otherwise, and that decision is yours to make, not ours.
These are the terms as they appear in the agreement itself — nothing here is softened for the website. The full wording lives in our terms and conditions, and you get the agreement to read before anything is signed or invoiced.
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