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Lead generation automation that respects the rules

Most lead automation fails for one of two reasons. Either the follow-up is so generic it damages the brand, or the outreach breaks the law in the market it targets. I build systems that capture inbound leads, score them for fit, send them to the right place, and follow up in a way that holds up under GDPR, UK PECR and CAN-SPAM.

How the process works

Sound familiar?

The signs this is your problem

If two or more of these are true, there is almost certainly a worthwhile automation hiding in it.

  • Leads sit in a form inbox for a day before anyone replies
  • Follow-up depends on someone remembering to follow up
  • You cannot tell which leads are worth calling first
  • The CRM is out of date because updating it is manual
  • Good leads go cold while you are busy delivering work

What gets built

What a lead engine build includes

Four things, in roughly this order. The proportions shift by project — the shape does not.

Instant capture and routing

Every lead — form, email, WhatsApp or call — lands in one place within seconds. Public company details are added automatically. Leads are then ranked by how well they fit, not by who arrived first.

Fit scoring you can actually read

Leads scored against your real ideal-customer criteria, with the reasoning shown. Not a black-box number: you see why a lead scored 80 and can correct the rules when it gets one wrong.

Follow-up sequences with a brake

Follow-up sequences that stop the moment someone replies, skip anyone on your do-not-contact list, and act on an unsubscribe straight away. Who the message is from and how to opt out are built in from the start, because the law requires both.

Pipeline hygiene on autopilot

Records created and updated from what actually happened, deals flagged when they go quiet, and a weekly summary of what moved. The CRM stays accurate without anyone tidying it.

What you get

Handed over, documented, yours.

  • A single routed inbox for every inbound lead source
  • Documented scoring rules you can change yourself
  • Compliant follow-up sequences with suppression and opt-out handling built in
  • CRM automation and a weekly pipeline digest
  • A written note on which outreach approaches are lawful in which of your target markets

Typically built with

n8nMakeHubSpotAirtablePythonOpenAIGoogle Sheets

Chosen per project, not by habit. Everything runs in accounts registered to you — you hold the keys and see the bills directly.

When this is not the right service

I do not build scraped-list cold-email blasts, fake-persona outreach, or anything designed to evade spam filtering. Beyond the legal exposure, it burns the sending domain you will need later.

How we'd work

From audit to autopilot in weeks.

Fixed scope. One fixed price. Working software every week. You always know what ships next and what it saves.

  1. Week 0 · Free

    Audit

    Thirty minutes on where your hours actually go. I map the repetitive workflows, time them, and score each one by what automating it would return. You keep that map either way — including the honest note on which processes to leave alone.

  2. Week 1

    Blueprint

    A written proposal: what gets built, which systems it touches, what it costs to run each month, the timeline, and one fixed price for the whole engagement. Nothing starts until you approve it. The price does not move unless you change the scope.

  3. Weeks 2–4

    Build

    I design, build and test inside your own accounts, with evaluations and guardrails on anything using a language model. You see working software every week rather than a status update — which means you can redirect early, while redirecting is still cheap.

  4. Ongoing

    Run & improve

    Launch, monitor, iterate. Thirty days of support included with every build. After that: take a care plan, hand it to your own team using the documentation, or run it yourself. All three are genuinely fine.

Questions

Lead generation & outreach — the usual questions

It depends on the market and on how you do it. In the UK and EU you can usually email a business address without prior consent, provided you say clearly who you are and give a working opt-out. Emailing individuals and sole traders needs their consent first. In the US you may send cold commercial email if you identify yourself, include a postal address, and act on opt-outs within ten working days. I build to the strictest rule that applies to you, and write down which one your sequences rely on.

Yes, but only if the personalisation is grounded in something real. Systems that insert a company name into a template read as automated because they are. What works is a shorter volume of outreach where each message references something specific and verifiable — which is exactly the kind of research an AI step can do well.

Almost certainly. HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho, Salesforce and Airtable all have solid APIs, and even CRMs without one can usually be handled through their import mechanisms. If your CRM genuinely cannot be automated, I will tell you on the audit call — that is a useful thing to find out before you commit budget.

Ready to get the hours back?

A free 30-minute audit call. You leave with a written map of your automatable workflows and what each one is worth — whether we end up working together or not.

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