Automation Route

AI, do with me automation in Make

Build three working automations that handle real business tasks: lead notifications with AI scoring, content repurposing from blog posts, and intelligent email triage. You will connect Google Sheets, Gmail, Slack, and ChatGPT into scenarios that run without your involvement.

18 steps ~1h 20min For all professionals Free
Start This Route → Free to start · No credit card

You're Still Doing Manually What Should Run Automatically.

No-code automation tools are powerful. But only if you know how to set them up correctly the first time. This route shows you exactly how.

Before this route

  • You know automation tools exist but have no idea where to start without a developer.
  • You've tried building flows before but they break and you don't know how to fix them.
  • Your repetitive tasks are still manual because 'setting up automation' keeps getting postponed.
  • You spend time on work that a properly configured tool could handle in seconds.
  • Every automation tutorial assumes you already know the basics — this one doesn't.

After this route

  • Create your Make account, understand the visual builder, and launch a working automation in under 15 minutes.
  • Upgrade the basic notification into a smart lead pipeline that uses AI to score and summarize incoming leads.
  • Build a scenario that takes a blog post URL and generates social media posts, email subject lines, and a summary — all automatically.
  • You've built a working automation without writing a single line of code.
  • You know exactly how to structure a flow so it runs reliably — not just once.

What You'll Actually Do

This isn't a lecture. Each step has you doing something real with AI — and by the end, you'll have a finished result you can use immediately.

1
Steps 1–4

Set up Make and build your first scenario

Create your Make account, understand the visual builder, and launch a working automation in under 15 minutes.

2
Steps 5–8

Build an AI-enriched lead notifier

Upgrade the basic notification into a smart lead pipeline that uses AI to score and summarize incoming leads.

3
Steps 9–12

Automate content repurposing with AI

Build a scenario that takes a blog post URL and generates social media posts, email subject lines, and a summary — all automatically.

4
Steps 13–15

Build AI-powered email triage

Create an automation that reads incoming emails, classifies them with AI, and takes different actions based on category.

5
Steps 16–18

Polish, monitor, and share your automations

Add monitoring, clean up scenarios, and prepare your automation portfolio for real use.

Built for People Who Use AI at Work

You don't need to be technical. If you use ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini for work — this route will make that time more productive.

Marketers

Content, briefs, and campaigns — done in hours instead of days.

Sales & BizDev

Prep calls, draft outreach, research prospects — in minutes.

HR & People Ops

Job descriptions, interview kits, onboarding docs — built, not copy-pasted.

Managers & Leads

Reports, presentations, and team comms — handled faster.

Founders

Move fast on everything — pitches, pages, research. AI as your first hire.

Ops & Analysts

Summaries, process docs, and structured output — from messy inputs.

How This Route Works

Read the Step

Each step gives you a task and a prompt to try. No fluff — just what to do and why it matters.

Do It With AI

Open your favorite AI tool. Paste the prompt. See the result. Then tweak it using the techniques you just picked up.

Stuck? Hit "Help"

The AI assistant knows what step you're on. Ask it anything — it sees your context and gets you unstuck in seconds.

"I built my first automation in Make in one session. It's been running for two weeks and I haven't touched it since."
— Early access user, operations lead

What You Walk Away With

Set up Make and build your first scenario

Create your Make account, understand the visual builder, and launch a working automation in under 15 minutes.

Build an AI-enriched lead notifier

Upgrade the basic notification into a smart lead pipeline that uses AI to score and summarize incoming leads.

Automate content repurposing with AI

Build a scenario that takes a blog post URL and generates social media posts, email subject lines, and a summary — all automatically.

Build AI-powered email triage

Create an automation that reads incoming emails, classifies them with AI, and takes different actions based on category.

Questions

No. If you've used ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini even once, you're ready. This route works at any level.

Any of the major ones — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot. The techniques in this route work across all of them. Use whatever you already have open.

About ~1h 20min end to end. You can pause and pick it back up — your progress is saved.

Every step has an AI assistant built in. It knows your context — what step you're on, what you've done so far. Just ask, and it gets you unstuck.

Courses teach concepts. This route has you doing real work at every step. You don't watch someone else do it — you do it yourself, on an actual task. By the end, you have a finished result and a system you can reuse.