Automate Your Agency
Are you a founder dreaming of breaking free from the day-to-day grind?
Or perhaps you're looking to scale your company without burning out?
Welcome to Automate Your Agency with Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson, a podcast dedicated to helping you systemize and automate your business for more efficient, scalable operations that can run without you.
Join our hosts as they share battle-tested strategies and cutting-edge tools that take the guesswork out of systemizing your business. Drawing from their experience of growing their agency to 600+ active clients before their exit, Alane and Micah offer actionable insights on:
✅ Implementing effective software solutions
✅ Leveraging automation and AI to do more with less
✅ Creating workflows and systems that allow your business to run without you
✅ Preparing your company for a potential sale or exit
Each week, they take a deep dive into real-world operational challenges and showcase solutions they've implemented. Whether you want to double revenue without doubling headcount or build a business that runs smoothly in your absence, this podcast is your roadmap to success.
Subscribe to Automate Your Agency with Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson now on your favorite podcast platform and join other forward-thinking entrepreneurs as they transform their businesses into well-oiled machines that are primed for growth and ready for whatever the future holds!
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Episodes
92 episodes
Claude Cowork Is the AI Managing Our Sales Pipeline
Nobody wants to enter data into a CRM, especially founders and salespeople who should be spending their time selling, not typing. Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson share how they eliminated the most painful part of sales with one simple Claude Deskt...
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Season 1
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Episode 91
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15:36
Build a Shared AI Brain for Your Company (No Code Required)
Most founders are the bottleneck in their own company. Your standards, your voice, your client knowledge. It all lives in your head. And AI mirrors the problem when everyone on your team prompts it differently.A shared Dropbox folder jus...
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Season 1
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Episode 90
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27:57
The Future of Work: Claude Cowork
Want to ditch the endless back-and-forth cycle of project management and actually get work done? Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson just redesigned their entire 12-page website in under two hours, without hiring a designer, developer, or ...
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Episode 89
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25:54
Custom GPTs and When to Use Them
Stop rewriting the same AI prompts over and over again. Alane Boyd and Micah Johnson reveal why treating AI like a magic wand instead of building a system is sabotaging your results.If you've been uploading files, writing prompts, and ge...
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Episode 88
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14:09
The AI Automation Graveyard (Why Most Projects Die After Launch)
The AI Automation Graveyard (Why Most Projects Die After Launch)If your automation hasn't been updated in 90 days, it's probably broken. Alane and Micah dive deep into why automation is actually software and what that means for yo...
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Episode 87
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16:51
What If An AI-powered One Person Business Actually Sucks?
Is the “one-person business” really the dream or just burnout disguised as freedom?In this episode, the conversation takes a hard look at the rise of solo-operator culture, AI agents, and automation hype. While headlines promise t...
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Season 1
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Episode 86
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16:15
Want to Automate? APIs and Webhooks are Everything
Software needs to talk to each other, that's the foundation of all business automation. In this episode, Alane and Micah break down the three critical ways platforms communicate and why understanding these basics determines whether your busines...
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Episode 85
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17:42
Why we deleted 50% of our 2026 objectives
Planning season hits different when you realize that a packed plan isn't ambitious, it's confused. Alane and Micah share the uncomfortable truth about their 2026 planning process: they deleted over 50% of their goals, and it was the smartest mo...
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Episode 84
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19:28
Even if you don't think you want to exit, you should plan for it
Most founders don't fail when trying to sell their company—they fail years earlier by becoming the only person who knows how everything works. In this episode, Alane and Micah explore what it really takes to build an exit-ready business, from d...
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Episode 83
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20:45
How AI Agents work with ClickUp, Asana, and Monday
If your AI agents and automations don't work with your project management system like ClickUp, Asana, or Monday, you're still operating in chaos. Alane and Micah break down the game-changing AI automations they've built that integrate seamlessl...
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Episode 82
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17:01
The Best AI-first Slide Deck Platform
Alane and Micah break down one of their favorite “unfair advantage” tools right now: Gamma.app — the AI-powered way to create slide decks, one-pagers, and client-facing docs without being a designer.Alane shares how she’s using Ga...
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Season 1
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Episode 81
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15:16
Stop writing technical docs manually
When you’re building AI and automation for clients, the tech is the easy part — explaining what you built is where things bog down. In this episode, Micah and Beau walk through the internal “Tech Doc Agent” they built to turn messy JSON workflo...
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Season 1
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Episode 80
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29:22
#1 Rule: Simplify then Automate
Most leaders want automation… until they realize their own process is the biggest thing standing in the way. In this episode, Alane and Micah break down one of the most common patterns they see inside companies: trying to force new software to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 79
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14:31
Use AI to build your ideas in less than 60 minutes
Every founder knows the pain: you can see the product in your head, but explaining it to a designer or developer? That’s where things fall apart.For decades, the gap between visionaries and technical teams has ...
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Season 1
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Episode 78
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24:23
Why companies struggle with AI-powered scalable systems
In this episode of Automate Your Agency, Micah and Alane break down the five hidden roadblocks that stop companies from scaling — even when they’re investing in AI. From leadership confusion and tool overload to the danger of siloed sy...
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Season 1
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Episode 77
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16:30
The AI-era means having in-house expertise
Most leaders want to harness AI—but few understand what it really takes to make it work across an organization. In this episode, Micah and Alane break down what they call the Upside-Down Pyramid, a simple framework for transforming you...
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Season 1
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Episode 76
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31:06
The real ROI of relationships
In this episode, Alane shares how joining the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program completely reshaped the way she approaches business growth—and why no founder should try to build alone.What started as a 12-week crash co...
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Season 1
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Episode 75
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16:41
10 AI use cases you'll want to implement today
In this solo episode, Micah breaks down the ten most practical and high-impact ways companies are using AI and automation to save time, reduce bottlenecks, and scale faster. From writing project estimates to improving onboarding and automating ...
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Season 1
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Episode 74
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18:06
Find out what AI and Agents can’t fix
In this episode, Alane and Micah tackle one of the biggest misconceptions about AI agents — the idea that they can magically fix broken workflows. They unpack why automation only works when the underlying process is solid, clear, and well-defin...
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Season 1
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Episode 73
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15:23
ClickUp Sprints aren’t just for Dev teams
In this episode, Micah and Beau share the behind-the-scenes changes that reshaped how their team manages client work. After years of juggling multiple projects, they decided to shift their entire production and implementation process into one-w...
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Season 1
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Episode 72
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21:16
Monday.com Magic: AI-Powered Project Set Up
What if you could describe a process and have a working Monday.com system appear—complete with connected boards, forms, sample data, and dashboards? In this episode, Micah and Beau dive into Monday Magic (monday.com/magic), a...
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Season 1
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Episode 71
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18:14
Stop Chasing the "One Thing" That Will Fix Everything
Many founders approach automation with a single idea in mind: “If I just automate this one thing, everything will get better.” But the truth is, businesses aren’t built on one system—they run on dozens of interconnected ones.In ...
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Season 1
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Episode 70
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17:50
AI Visuals Made Easy: Nano Banana + Hailuo
In this episode of Automate Your Agency, Alane and Micah dive into one of Google’s most exciting new AI tools: Nano Banana (yes, that’s its real name). They share how they’ve been using it to create professional-quality images, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 69
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15:25
Is your company data training AI?
There could be an AI security risk brewing in your business.Your team is already using AI—the question isn't whether they should, but whether you have control over how they're using it. This solo episode with Micah tackles the security n...
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Season 1
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Episode 68
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11:23
AI Agents vs Automation: The 5 Differences That Actually Matter
Your automations are probably more fragile than you think—and costing you way more time than they should. Micah started the year convinced there was no real difference between AI agents and regular automation workflows. He was wrong, and now he...
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Season 1
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Episode 67
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26:18