Automation studio · ecommerce & performance agencies

Your team rebuilds the same client report every single month.

Cleanline Systems finds the repetitive work eating your agency's week — reporting, onboarding, follow-up, proposals — and builds the automations that remove it. Nothing new for your team to learn.

Built by an operator, not a consultant. I ran ecommerce stores for two years — Meta, Google Ads, Shopify, Klaviyo — before building systems for the agencies on the other side of them.

Manual · today Cleanline · after
Meta Ads Google Ads GA4 Shopify Klaviyo Sheets CLIENT REPORT sent automatically
Before: ~14 hrs / month After: review & send
The problem

You didn't hire strategists to copy and paste.

Agencies scale by adding people to work that shouldn't need people. Here's where the hours actually go in a 5–40 person shop.

Every month · per client

Client reporting

Someone opens six tabs, exports six CSVs, pastes them into a template, writes the same commentary, and rebuilds the deck. Then does it nine more times.

MetaGoogle AdsGA4ShopifyKlaviyoSlides
Every new client

Onboarding admin

Access requests, pixel checks, folder structures, intake forms, kickoff docs, contract, invoice setup. The same sequence every time, tracked in someone's head.

Business ManagerDriveNotionSlack
Every pitch

Proposals & audits

Pre-sale audits and proposals rewritten from scratch for each prospect, when 80% of the content is identical and the numbers could be pulled automatically.

DocsAd LibrarySheets
Every week

Status & alerts

Nobody notices a campaign broke, a feed disapproved, or spend spiked until the client emails. Checks happen when someone remembers to look.

Merchant CenterEmailSlack
The math

What manual reporting costs you a year.

Move the sliders to your numbers. Most agencies have never added this up.

12
2.5
$55
16
$32,340
Spent every year on work a system can do
Reporting hours / month30 hrs
Total manual hours / month46 hrs
Cost / month$2,530
Working weeks lost / year13.8 weeks

That's not just money. It's the capacity you'd need to take on more clients without hiring — and the strategic work your team isn't doing because they're in a spreadsheet.

Find out what's automatable
What we build

Systems that run inside the tools you already pay for.

No new platform, no migration, no seat licences, no training programme. The work simply stops arriving on someone's desk.

Automated client reporting

Data pulled from every ad and store platform on a schedule, formatted into your template, with a first-draft commentary written for your account manager to review and send.

Typically 60–80% of reporting hours

Client onboarding flows

One form triggers the whole sequence: folders, access checklists, intake docs, kickoff tasks, welcome email, internal notifications. Nothing depends on memory.

Same setup, every client, every time

Proposal & audit assembly

Prospect data pulled automatically, dropped into your proposal structure, with the repeatable sections pre-written so your pitch prep starts at 80% instead of zero.

Hours per pitch, back

Alerts that catch problems first

Spend anomalies, ROAS drops, disapproved feeds, broken tracking — surfaced in Slack the hour they happen, so you tell the client before the client tells you.

Fewer awkward emails

Inbox & request triage

Incoming client requests classified, summarised, routed to the right person and logged as a task, so nothing sits unread in a shared inbox for three days.

Response time, not headcount

Owner dashboard

One view of retainers, hours, delivery status, spend under management and what's stuck — assembled from the systems you already use rather than another manual sheet.

Visibility without the Friday scramble
How it works

Four steps. You can stop after any of them.

Deliberately sequenced so you never spend real money before you've seen real work. Each step is useful on its own.

01

Process audit

A 30-minute call about how your week actually runs, then a written document naming the three processes costing you the most hours, what a system would do to each, and the hours and dollars it would return. You keep it either way.

Free30 min + written doc
02

Blueprint & working prototype

I build a working prototype of the highest-value automation, plus the full build plan: what connects to what, where AI is used and where it isn't, edge cases, and what your team's day looks like afterwards. Credited in full against the build.

$500credited toward step 03
03

Build & launch

The system built, connected to your live tools, tested against real edge cases, documented, and handed over with a walkthrough for the people who'll use it. Fixed price agreed before anything starts — no hourly billing, no scope drift.

from $2,500live in 14 days
04

Keep it running

Platforms change their APIs, you add clients, workflows evolve. Ongoing support covers monitoring, fixes and small extensions so the system stays reliable instead of quietly breaking in month four. Optional, and cancellable monthly.

$500–1,000/momonth to month
Fit

This works well for some agencies and badly for others.

I'd rather tell you now than three weeks into a build.

A good fit

  • 5–40 people, serving ecommerce or DTC clients
  • Eight or more retainer clients receiving regular reporting
  • At least one person whose week is visibly eaten by admin
  • Founder or ops lead who can make a decision without a committee
  • Tools already in place — you don't need new software, you need it connected
  • Willing to give an hour of a team member's time during the build

Not a fit

  • Under five people — usually not enough repetition to justify a build
  • Looking for a full custom software platform or a client-facing app
  • Hoping to replace staff outright rather than free their time
  • Wanting AI applied to everything because it's AI
  • No appetite to change how a process runs once it's automated
  • Needs it live next week — a proper build takes two
Data & AI boundaries

Your client data doesn't get handed to whatever's newest.

You're responsible for other people's ad accounts, revenue figures and customer data. Any sensible agency owner is cautious here. So am I.

Software first, AI second

Most of what saves you time is plain automation — moving data, formatting, triggering, notifying. AI is added only where it genuinely helps: summarising, drafting, classifying, flagging.

Minimum necessary context

Where a model is used, it receives the specific fields needed for that task — not your client list, not your contracts, not your inbox.

A human before the client sees it

Nothing customer-facing sends itself. Reports, commentary and replies are drafted for review. Your account manager stays the last step.

You own everything

Systems are built in your accounts, on your subscriptions, documented in plain language. If we stop working together, nothing switches off and nothing is hostage.

IMAGE SLOT — founder photo, 800×800px, square crop, plain background
Who you'd be working with
I spent two years on the other side of these reports — running the ads, watching the margin, chasing the refunds at eleven at night.

I ran ecommerce stores across Meta and Google before moving into finance and controlling. I know what a client report looks like when it's assembled by hand at the end of the month, and I know which numbers in it actually matter.

Cleanline is deliberately small. You work with me directly — no account manager, no junior doing the build, no agency layer between the problem and the person solving it. That's the whole point.

— Patrick, founder · Cleanline Systems

Results

Early builds, in progress.

Cleanline is taking on a small number of first builds at reduced rates in exchange for a documented case study. If you'd rather be an early client than a late one, the economics are better now.

Hours returned per month
case study slot

Reporting time reduced
case study slot

Days from kickoff to live
case study slot

Questions

The things agency owners actually ask.

Isn't this just a reporting tool? We already looked at those.

Reporting tools give you a dashboard. They don't know your template, your commentary style, your client's naming conventions, or the three things you check manually because the tool gets them wrong. A build fits the process you already run instead of asking your team to adopt someone else's.

What happens when Meta or Google changes their API?

Things break — that's the honest answer, and it's why ongoing support exists. Systems are monitored, breakages get fixed, and you're told before a client notices. Anyone promising a build that never needs maintenance is selling you something.

How much of our time does this take during the build?

Roughly two to three hours total, spread across two weeks: a walkthrough of the current process, access setup, and a review session before launch. Most of the work happens without you.

Do you build custom software or apps?

No. Cleanline builds automation and AI workflows inside the tools you already use. If you need a custom client portal or a full application, you need a software studio, and I'll say so rather than take the project.

Why is the first audit free?

Because I need to see a real process before I can tell you whether a build is worth it, and you shouldn't pay to find out that it isn't. Roughly half of these conversations end with "this isn't worth automating yet," which is a useful answer too.

You're based in Europe. Does that work?

Cleanline works US business hours — my day starts as the US East Coast comes online. Everything is remote and asynchronous, invoiced in USD, with calls scheduled inside your working day.

What if we stop working together?

Everything is built in your accounts under your subscriptions and documented in plain language. Nothing is locked to me. You can hand it to anyone technical and they'll be able to read it.

Start here

Find out what your agency is spending on work nobody should be doing.

Thirty minutes on a call, then a written breakdown you keep whether or not we work together.

  • Your three most expensive manual processes, named
  • Hours and dollars attached to each one
  • What could be automated, what shouldn't be, and why
  • A recommended first build — or an honest "not yet"
Taking 4 audits per month · currently booking for the coming weeks

No pitch deck, no sequence, no sales call disguised as a discovery call. If it's not a fit I'll tell you in the first ten minutes.