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Case study · Chasing without a person

Hundreds of follow-ups a week, routed without anyone doing it by hand.

One person's whole job was sending follow-up emails to hundreds of leads and clients from a spreadsheet: costly, error-prone, and a single point of failure. We replaced the spreadsheet with a system that chases, classifies replies and routes them on.
Agency
Talent management agency, founder-led
Size
10–20 people
Location
Los Angeles
Stack
Notion · Email automation · AI classification
  • $30k

    a year of manual follow-up cost removed

  • ~1 min

    per follow-up, down from manual

  • 35 days

    to full deployment

As reported on the engagement

What changed

The Gregory Mark Mgmt. engagement, before and after.

Before

  • ✕Hundreds of weekly follow-ups sent manually from a spreadsheet
  • ✕The whole process dependent on one person
  • ✕Errors, missed follow-ups and no clear status per contact

What we built

  • A central Notion database for every lead and client contact, with clear status tracking
  • An automated follow-up sequence on the right cadence
  • Replies categorised automatically and routed to the next stage

Hundreds of weekly emails run without manual work · No single-person dependency, no human error in the sequence

See it running

Recordings from the engagement: the automations and dashboards as they work.

RecordingThe follow-up map: when a first email goes unanswered for a day, the lead's status updates on its own.
RecordingReply handling: each new response arrives by webhook and is filtered and routed on automatically.
The same pattern in a larger agency

As the agency grows, this is intake triage and dependency chasing.

Inbound email and forms classified by type and urgency and routed to a named owner with an SLA, so the founder's inbox stops being the default queue. And the same chasing logic pointed at clients: the documents, approvals and data a project is waiting on, followed up automatically, which is where most delay actually lives.

Paul has been an amazing expert in automation, helping me build tools for my CRM. He’s very easy to work with and really listened to the needs specific to my business, including learning the programs I was already using, which made it seamless.

GregFounder, Gregory Mark Mgmt.

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