Automate the operations that slow your growth down
Most marketing teams lose more hours to copy-paste, missed follow-ups and disconnected tools than to strategy. We design and build the technology layer — CRM, lifecycle automation, integrations and AI assistants — so the system does the repetitive work reliably.
Manual hours removed
20 – 60 / month
First workflow live
2 – 3 weeks
Integration uptime target
99.5%
Integration
API-first connections
Design
Mapped, versioned workflows
AI
Assisted, human-approved
Safety
Error alerts and fallbacks
Where marketing operations break down
Tools that never talk: Ads, forms, CRM and billing hold different versions of the same customer, and reconciliation happens in a spreadsheet.
Leads that go cold: Enquiries wait hours for a first response because follow-up depends on someone noticing an email.
Automation nobody documented: A previous contractor built workflows in a tool no one can access, and nobody knows what breaks if it is switched off.
AI experiments without guardrails: Isolated AI trials produce impressive demos but never enter a repeatable, reviewed operating process.
What a proper technology layer delivers
One connected customer record: Ad click, form, CRM stage and revenue joined to a single identity so reporting and follow-up are reliable.
Response time in minutes: Routing, alerts and instant acknowledgement workflows mean no enquiry sits unattended.
Documented, transferable systems: Every workflow is diagrammed, versioned and handed over with run instructions and owner assignments.
AI where it is safe to use: Drafting, enrichment, classification and summarisation automated, with a human approval step on anything customer-facing.
Our position
“Automation is not about doing more. It is about making sure the important things happen the same way every time.”
Inside the technology and automation build
Select a workstream to see the systems designed, built and documented for your team.
Operations audit and blueprint
Current tools, data flows and manual steps mapped end to end, with an automation priority list ranked by hours saved.
- Tool stack and cost inventory
- Process and data flow mapping
- Manual effort quantification
- Prioritised automation roadmap
How the build runs
Discovery and mapping
Weeks 1 – 2
Interviews and system access to document how work actually happens today, not how the process diagram says it does.
Data foundation
Weeks 2 – 4
CRM model, field governance and integrations built and validated against real records before automation is layered on.
Workflow rollout
Weeks 4 – 8
Automations released in priority order, each tested in staging and monitored for two weeks after go-live.
Handover and iteration
Ongoing
Documentation, training and a monthly improvement cycle covering new requests and reliability reviews.
Technology engagements
Transparent scope and pricing. No lock-in beyond the agreed cycle, and every account, asset and dataset stays in your name.
Automation Audit
$2,200
one-off
Full mapping of your stack and processes with a costed automation roadmap.
- Tool and cost inventory
- Process and data flow maps
- Hours-saved opportunity model
- Sequenced build roadmap
Build Sprint
$6,500
one-off project
A focused build of your CRM model, core integrations and priority lifecycle workflows.
- CRM and data model build
- Up to six core integrations
- Priority workflow automation
- Documentation and training
Managed Operations
$2,400
per month
Ongoing ownership: monitoring, improvements and new automations as the business changes.
- Monitoring and incident response
- Monthly automation backlog
- AI workflow development
- Quarterly stack review
Before you brief us
We work with the stack you already own — HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho, Airtable, Make, n8n, Zapier and custom APIs — and only recommend changes with a cost case.
Where is your marketing system getting stuck?
Share your details and AI Explorer Media will review your website, landing pages, search presence, social channels and marketplace storefronts, then recommend the priorities that match your goals and real resources.
Baseline audit of your current state: We identify what is limiting reach, customer experience and conversion on each platform you already run.
Priority list, not a wish list: We clarify whether website, content, social, marketplace or paid media should be fixed first.
A roadmap you can actually resource: A sequenced plan built around your goals, budget and team capacity — no thin spend across everything.