For Entrepreneurs: AI Automation for Agencies & Service Businesses

GDG Pittsburgh

There is a ceiling that almost every agency and service business hits. You can only take on as many clients as your team...

Aug 25, 9:00 – 9:30 PM (UTC)

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Key Themes

Career Development

About this event

There is a ceiling that almost every agency and service business hits. You can only take on as many clients as your team can handle. Growth means hiring. Hiring means overhead. Overhead means pressure. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, the quality of work that got you here starts to slip.

AI automation breaks that ceiling.

This session is built specifically for agencies, consultants, freelancers and service providers who want to deliver more to more clients without burning out, without a bloated team, and without sacrificing the quality that built their reputation in the first place.

We are not talking about replacing what you do. We are talking about eliminating the parts of your week that should never have required a human in the first place.

We will cover:

  • How to automate client onboarding so new clients go from signed contract to fully set up without a single manual step using Google Forms and AppSheet

  • How to use Gemini to generate first drafts of proposals, reports, status updates and client communications in a fraction of the time, in your voice and your format

  • How to build automated reporting dashboards in Looker Studio that update in real time so you spend less time pulling numbers and more time acting on them

  • How to create internal workflow systems that mean nothing falls through the cracks when your team is stretched

  • How to build a service delivery engine that scales with demand rather than headcount

Every strategy in this session has been designed around the reality of running a service business. Not a software company. Not a startup with a development team. A real service business where you and your team are the product, and your time is the one thing you can never get back.

If you have ever turned down a client because you did not have the capacity, or said yes and then regretted it, this session will change how you think about what is possible.

Organizers

  • Amanda Plashal

    MediaWow Partners, LLC.

    Lead Organizer

  • Andrés Plashal

    Bayesian & Priors

    GDG Pittsburgh Chapter Lead