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Built 23 workflows in one afternoon. Client's previous agency delivered 3 workflows in 6 months.
Built 23 workflows in one afternoon. Client's previous agency delivered 3 workflows in 6 months.
Same client. Same requirements. Wildly different execution.
THE BACKSTORY
Client called frustrated.
"We've been paying $8k/month for 6 months"
"Agency delivered 3 workflows"
"We need 20 more"
"They quoted another 8 months"
Me: "Send me the list of what you need"
THE LIST
23 workflows ranging from:
- Lead capture to CRM
- Invoice reminders
- Meeting scheduling
- Document approvals
- Customer feedback loops
- Payment processing
- Onboarding sequences
Agency timeline: 8 additional months
Agency cost: $64,000 more
THE CHALLENGE
Client: "How long would this take you?"
Me: "Let's find out. I'll build them today."
Client: "Today?"
Me: "Yeah, I've got the afternoon free"
Started at 1 PM.
THE SESSION
Workflow 1: Lead capture - 4 minutes
Workflow 2: Invoice automation - 5 minutes
Workflow 3: Meeting scheduler - 3 minutes
Client watching on Zoom.
Client at workflow 5: "This is insane"
Client at workflow 10: "How is this possible"
Client at workflow 15: "Should I be recording this"
Finished at 5:47 PM.
All 23 workflows built.
All tested.
All deployed.
Total time: 4 hours 47 minutes.
THE AGENCY'S 6-MONTH DELIVERY
Workflow 1: Took 6 weeks
Workflow 2: Took 8 weeks
Workflow 3: Took 10 weeks (had bugs)
What they delivered:
- Same functionality I built in minutes
- Required 3 revision cycles each
- Needed ongoing "optimization"
What I delivered:
- Identical functionality
- Zero revisions needed
- Already optimized
THE COST BREAKDOWN
Agency's plan:
- 6 months completed: $48,000
- 8 months remaining: $64,000
- Total: $112,000 for 23 workflows
My delivery:
- One afternoon: $18,500
- Time: 4 hours 47 minutes
- Savings: $93,500
Client paid immediately.
THE REAL DIFFERENCE
Agency method:
- Requirements doc
- Architecture planning
- Node-by-node building
- Testing phase
- Revision cycles
- Deployment planning
My method:
- Read requirement
- Write the requirement to Skada.ai
- Generate workflow
- Test
- Deploy
- Next
THE AFTERMATH
Client: "What's your capacity?"
Me: "For what?"
Client: "We have 40 more workflows planned"
Me: "When do you need them?"
Client: "Agency quoted 18 months"
Me: "I can do next Tuesday"
Built all 40 the following week.
7 hours total.
Client's reaction: "We wasted a year"
CURRENT RESULTS
Client went from:
- 3 workflows in 6 months
- To 63 workflows in 2 weeks
- From $8k/month agency costs
- To one-time payments as needed
Their operations transformed overnight.
Not because workflows were better.
Because they actually got built.
THE PATTERN I'M SEEING
Agencies aren't slow because workflows are hard.
They're slow because their model requires time.
Bill by the hour? Need hours.
Bill by the month? Need months.
Bill by complexity? Make it complex.
I bill by the solution.
Solution takes 5 minutes? Great.
Client gets their workflow.
I get paid fairly.
Everyone moves on.
MY NEW PROBLEM
Clients now ask: "Can you build 50 workflows?"
Answer: "Yeah, probably takes a week"
Their faces when I'm serious: Priceless.
Who else thinks "automation agency" has become code for "artificially slow delivery"?
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Built 23 workflows in one afternoon. Client's previous agency delivered 3 workflows in 6 months.
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