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Automate new-client onboarding
“Every new client means the same welcome emails, forms and schedules.”
When a new client is added, an automation can create their folder, fill your welcome doc, and send the first email for your approval.
Fix it yourself in 3 steps
- List your onboarding steps in order and the info you need from each client.
- Ask the AI to turn it into an automation: 'when a row is added, do X, then Y'.
- Test with a fake client and keep a 'send?' approval step at first.
Copy this prompt
My client onboarding steps: [list]. Turn this into an automation for [Zapier/Make/n8n]: trigger, each step, what data it uses, and where a human approves. Draft the welcome email and checklist from my notes. Test with fake client data only. Stop before connecting real accounts.
Fill in the [brackets]. Each prompt says when the AI should stop, so it doesn't wander off.
Agents people used for this: n8n, Make.
Inspired by real examples collected at agentusecases.ai.
📚 3 real stories of people doing this with AI agents
- Automate client onboarding and schedule PDFs · n8n
- Automate customer onboarding with a Make scenario · Make
- Run warehouse paperwork, SOWs and billing automatically · custom-built or unnamed agent
Collected at AgentUseCases.ai.
AI drafts, you approve: nothing gets posted, sent, spent or published without a person. Tell customers when they're talking to an AI.
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