// ZAPIER · MAKE · n8n
The Automation Cookbook — the guide cover

Your busywork could run itself while you sleep.

Ten ready-made recipes — sorting your inbox, reading invoices, building the Friday report — that decide and act on their own. Copy one and it’s working this week.

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// the problem

It was never about being slow. The setup just never happened.

Every week there’s a stack of work a computer should be handling — sorting the inbox, chasing the update, pulling the report together, copying a row from one app into another. You still do it by hand because building the automation always felt like a project you’d need a free afternoon to start, and that afternoon never came.

// what you’ve tried

And you’ve circled this before.

Opened Zapier, built half of one automation, and never went back to finish it

Watched a 22-minute tutorial that solved a problem you didn’t actually have

Said “I’ll batch it Friday” for the ninth Friday in a row

Most tutorials show you the tool but skip the recipe — the simple shape every reliable automation follows: something kicks it off, it gathers what it needs, it decides, it acts, and it keeps a record. Without that shape you start from a blank page every time, so nothing ever sticks.

// what changes

Here’s what you walk away able to do.

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Have your inbox sorted, summarized, and routed before you open it

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Wake up to a finished weekly report, built from your own numbers

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Get every invoice read, filed, and queued for approval on its own

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Have new leads researched and scored the second they sign up

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Cut your AI bill by sending the easy jobs to a free model you run yourself

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Set it up safely, so it never pays an invoice twice or runs wild overnight

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You can put this off, sure — but a month from now you’ll still be doing it the slow way, wishing you’d started today.

We made this because we kept watching it not click.

Smart people — people who are genuinely good at their jobs — were paying for these tools and using maybe a tenth of what they could do. Not because they weren’t trying, but because nobody ever showed them the part that actually matters. So we sat down and wrote that part: the moves that work, the ones we’d hand a friend who asked. No filler, no hype, just the stuff we’d actually use ourselves.

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// inside the guide

A recipe book you can cook from, not another tour of a tool.

Ten ready-made workflows you can copy and run today. Each one is built on the same simple skeleton, so you can bend it to the apps you already use — with the safety checks that stop it from emailing the wrong person at 3am.

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The simple five-step shape every automation follows

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Ten full recipes, from sorting your inbox to the Friday report

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How to cut your AI bill by sending the easy work to a free model

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How to run it safely — budgets, limits, and approval steps

5 chapters
How an automation worksChoosing your toolThe habits that keep it runningTen ready-made recipesWorkflows that think for themselves
// how it works

Three steps, and you’re reading in under a minute.

1

Tell us where to send it

Just your first name and email — that’s the whole form. No hoops, no credit card, nothing to install.

2

It’s yours in a second

The guide downloads right away, and we’ll pop a copy in your inbox too, so you’ve always got it when you need it.

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Try one thing this week

Open it, pick one idea that fits your week, and actually use it. One small win is all it takes to see what this thing can do.

// imagination unleashed

What will you create?

A dozen real things people build with this. Pick one — you could have it working by the weekend.

01~ an evening

Have your inbox sorted and routed before you wake up

02~ an afternoon

Score and research every new lead the second they sign up

03~ an afternoon

Turn meeting recordings into assigned tasks on their own

04~ an afternoon

Read invoices, file them, and queue them for approval

05~ an hour

Turn one blog post into a week of social posts in your voice

06~ an afternoon

Get a finished weekly report every Friday from your own numbers

07~ an evening

Draft support replies with the right help articles attached

08~ an hour

Catch duplicate or stale records before they cause problems

09~ an afternoon

Watch what people say about your brand and draft replies

10~ an afternoon

Route documents for approval with a summary and a checklist

11~ an evening

Cut your AI bill by sending the easy work to a free model

12~ a weekend

Build your first automation that works while you sleep, by Friday

…and that’s a fraction of it. Grab the guide and start building.

// before you ask

A few fair questions.

Am I actually going to be able to do this?

Yes. It’s written to be followed, not admired. Every step is plain, the examples are copy-paste, and a simple first-week plan means you’re never staring at a blank screen wondering what’s next.

Will it actually show me how to set it up?

That’s the whole point. It walks you through the setup step by step and assumes nothing — so you end up with the thing actually working, not just a list of features you read about.

Is it too advanced, or too basic, for me?

It meets you where you are. New to this? It starts from the ground and builds up. Already comfortable? Skip ahead to the prompts and plays — they’ll still earn their keep.

How much time is this going to take?

You can read it in an afternoon, and you’ll have something working the same week. It’s built around small wins, not a giant course you start and never finish.

Is this just hype, or does it actually work?

No fluff. It’s the real moves — the exact prompts, the steps, and the mistakes to skip — from people who use this stuff every day, not a recap of a press release.

Is it really free? What’s the catch?

Genuinely free. We ask for your first name and email so we can send it (and the next one when it’s ready). No card, no catch, and one click to unsubscribe.

Set one thing running by Friday.

Grab the Cookbook, pick the recipe that fits your week — your inbox, the Friday report, your invoices — and let it run while you sleep. Free, takes a second, yours to keep.

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An independent guide from Prometheus Consulting, for operators, founders & the team’s “automation person”. Snapshot as of June 2026; tools move fast — check against current docs. Unofficial: product names are trademarks of their respective owners, none of whom reviewed or endorsed this guide.