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Manual processes automated in Zapier, Make or n8n.

Also called: Automation Specialist, Make Specialist, n8n Developer

From US$7.50 an hourUS$7.50-33/hr

  • Agencies
  • E-commerce
  • Professional services
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A free 15-minute call on Teams.

  • Works your hours
  • Colombia hub, on New York time or an hour behind
  • Month to month
What your AI Automation Specialist gets doneSample day
  • Maps the current manual process with the clientDiscovery & design
  • Builds multi-step Zaps, Makes scenarios and n8n workflowsBuild
  • Tests every workflow with normal and edge-case dataTesting & reliability
  • Records every live automation in an automation registerDocumentation & optimizationDoing
In your tools
  • HubSpot
  • Salesforce
  • Mailchimp
  • Airtable
  • Google Workspace
  • Microsoft 365

Pick the level. See the price.

US$12.50an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended

Owns a workflow end to end from discovery call to handover.

  • Full lead-management flow: capture, dedupe, enrich, assign, 5-minute follow-up
  • Shopify order to Xero invoice to 3PL fulfillment flow
  • AI email triage that classifies, extracts and routes with a human-review queue

1-3 years, with 30+ live automations across at least two of Zapier, Make and n8n.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management.

What you hand to your AI Automation Specialist

Tasks

  • Discovery & design

    • Maps the current manual process with the client
    • Writes an automation spec and flow diagram
    • Prioritizes the automation backlog

  • Build

    • Builds multi-step Zaps, Makes scenarios and n8n workflows
    • Connects apps through native integrations, webhooks and REST APIs
    • Adds AI steps with OpenAI or Claude to classify inquiries
    • Automates CRM and lead management in HubSpot, GoHighLevel
    • Automates order and fulfillment flows

  • Testing & reliability

    • Tests every workflow with normal and edge-case data
    • Builds error handlers, retries, dedupe checks and Slack or email alerts
    • Monitors run history and task/operation usage

  • Documentation & optimization

    • Records every live automation in an automation register
    • Records Loom walkthroughs
    • Audits existing stacks for broken, duplicate or unused automations
    • Manages credentials through the client's password manager

Tested before you meet them

How we test AI work

Tested on AI work, with mistakes planted in it

  • A real task from the roleDone with the AI tools the job uses, in a suite like yours.
  • Mistakes planted in the AI's outputCatching them is part of the pass mark, at every level.
  • Restricted data stays outPutting it into an AI tool fails the test, whatever the score.
Sample result, not a real candidate
AI workflow test: Failure-handling review60 minutes · marked by a senior
Planted problems found
2 of 2
Error handling and a retry added
Yes
Personal data out of the logs
Yes
Alert on bad input
Yes

Passed at IntermediateReal profiles show the date and score.

  1. Written English and client commsAll levels25 min
  2. Platform build testAll levels60 min
  3. AI step work sampleIntermediate and up1.5 hrs
  4. Debug and rescue exerciseIntermediate and up60 min
  5. Discovery role-play and specExpert and Specialist1.5 hrs
  6. Portfolio walkthroughAll levels30 min
  7. AI workflow test: Failure-handling review60 min

One score on every profileSample shown

90%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern AI Automation Specialist is US$7.50 an hour, Intermediate US$12.50, Expert US$19 and Specialist US$33, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month.

Discovery & design, build, testing & reliability and documentation & optimization, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Seven practical tests, marked by a senior, including written English and client comms, platform build test and AI step work sample. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your AI Automation Specialist works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United States clients is in Colombia, on New York time or an hour behind.

You do. Your AI Automation Specialist builds in your own accounts (Zapier, Make or n8n, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, your AI provider), under your logins and billing. Each build is logged with notes and a recorded walkthrough, so it stays with you if you leave us.

You do, on your own accounts, at the provider's price. We never mark it up. Your AI Automation Specialist asks before adding a paid tool and sets spending limits where the tool allows.

Every automation has error alerts, and your AI Automation Specialist fixes or escalates failures within the day. Steps that send, pay or change records wait for a person's approval, so a failure stops the run instead of sending the wrong thing.

You agree what gets built first. Builds are tested on real cases, and nothing goes live until you or your nominee says yes. Every change is logged: what, when and why.

Yes. Your AI Automation Specialist works inside your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace with the access your admin gives, so Copilot and Gemini follow your tenant's rules and AI policy. You can remove access at any time.

An Intermediate AI Automation Specialist owns a workflow end to end from discovery call to handover. An Expert AI Automation Specialist owns automation outcomes across a whole business: audits and rebuilds messy stacks. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every AI Automation Specialist is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as HubSpot and GoHighLevel, before you meet them.

In week one: added as a team member on the client's own Zapier; least-privilege access to core systems, read-only first where possible; and inventory of existing automations exported into the automation register. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Automation Specialist, Make Specialist and n8n Developer. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Book a 15-minute demo any time, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away. You can also message us on WhatsApp on +61 485 061 086, or email hello@gethands.com.au.

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Meet the people who fit your work.

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