Stop Doing It Manually
Connect Zapier and Make to your everyday apps — Gmail, Sheets, Slack, Notion, your CRM — and watch the copy-paste tasks disappear. No code, no developer, no prior tech experience needed: just your first live automation, built in hours.
My goal is simple: by the time you finish your first lesson, you'll already have something running — because nothing teaches automation like watching it actually work.— Freddy Foster
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Build a multi-step Zapier workflow that automatically moves data between two or more apps without touching a keyboard
- Design a Make (Integromat) scenario with filters, routers, and conditional logic to handle real business rules
- Identify the exact manual tasks in your own workflow that are worth automating and estimate time saved per week
- Connect common business tools — Gmail, Google Sheets, Slack, Notion, Airtable, and CRMs — into seamless data pipelines
- Troubleshoot and debug broken automations by reading error logs and using built-in testing tools
- Maintain and update live automations confidently as your apps or business processes change over time
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 27 lessons
Stop Doing It Manually: The Automation Mindset
Helps you spot the exact copy-paste tasks worth automating and sets up the mental model and tools you'll use throughout the course.
- 1.1Why Manual Data Entry Is Costing You More Than You ThinkIncluded
- 1.2Spotting Your Best Automation CandidatesIncluded
- 1.3Estimating Time Saved: Building Your Automation Business CaseIncluded
- 1.4Zapier vs. Make: Choosing the Right Tool for the JobIncluded
- 1.5Setting Up Your Accounts and Connecting Your First AppIncluded
Your First Zapier Workflows
Guides you from zero to a live, multi-step Zap that automatically moves real data between your everyday apps.
- 2.1How Zapier Works: Triggers, Actions, and the Zap EditorIncluded
- 2.2Building a Two-Step Zap: Gmail to Google SheetsIncluded
- 2.3Adding More Steps: Multi-App WorkflowsIncluded
- 2.4Using Filters and Conditions in ZapierIncluded
- 2.5Formatting and Transforming Data Inside a ZapIncluded
Connecting Your Core Business Tools with Zapier
Puts Zapier to work across the apps you use every day — Slack, Notion, Airtable, and CRMs — with ready-to-copy workflow patterns.
- 3.1Automating Your CRM: Leads In, Follow-Ups OutIncluded
- 3.2Slack and Email Notifications on AutopilotIncluded
- 3.3Syncing Data Between Google Sheets, Notion, and AirtableIncluded
- 3.4Real Workflow Recipes for Freelancers and VAsIncluded
Building Smarter Scenarios in Make
Introduces Make's visual canvas and teaches you to design scenarios with filters, routers, and conditional logic for complex business rules.
- 4.1The Make Canvas: Modules, Connections, and Data FlowIncluded
- 4.2Building Your First Make Scenario End-to-EndIncluded
- 4.3Filters and Routers: Handling Real Business RulesIncluded
- 4.4Iterators and Aggregators: Processing Lists of DataIncluded
- 4.5Scheduling, Webhooks, and Instant Triggers in MakeIncluded
Troubleshooting and Debugging Broken Automations
Teaches you to diagnose and fix errors confidently using built-in logs and testing tools on both platforms.
- 5.1Reading Error Logs in Zapier: What Went Wrong and WhyIncluded
- 5.2Testing and Replaying Failed Tasks in ZapierIncluded
- 5.3Debugging Make Scenarios with Execution History and Dev ToolsIncluded
- 5.4The Most Common Automation Errors (and How to Avoid Them)Included
Maintaining and Growing Your Automation Stack
Shows you how to keep live automations healthy over time and scale your stack as your business evolves.
- 6.1Updating Automations When Apps or Processes ChangeIncluded
- 6.2Organizing and Documenting Your Automations for the Long TermIncluded
- 6.3Managing Costs: Tasks, Operations, and Plan LimitsIncluded
- 6.4Building Your Personal Automation RoadmapIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
Overwhelmed Freelancers
You're doing admin for five clients at once — this school helps you automate the repetitive handoffs so you can focus on billable work.
Virtual Assistants
Add automation superpowers to your VA skillset and deliver more value to clients without adding hours to your day.
Small Business Owners
You're wearing every hat in the business — let automations handle the data-entry so you can get back to running it.
Office & Admin Professionals
If your job involves moving data between spreadsheets, inboxes, and project tools, you'll reclaim hours every single week.
Early-Stage Entrepreneurs
You can't afford to hire help yet — automating your systems now means you scale without burning out first.
Agency Account Managers
Keep clients updated and data synced across Sheets, Notion, and Slack without ever doing it manually again.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Freddy Foster
I know exactly where you are right now.
You've got a stack of apps you rely on every day — your inbox, your spreadsheets, your CRM, maybe Slack or Notion — and they all just sit there, completely unaware of each other. So you become the bridge. You copy a lead from a form into a spreadsheet. You paste a spreadsheet row into an email. You manually update three different places whenever anything changes. It's not hard work, exactly — but it is relentless, and it quietly eats hours you don't have to spare.
The thing is, every one of those copy-paste tasks can be automated. Not someday, when you have budget for a developer or time to learn to code — now, with tools you can connect yourself this week. I built this school because I was tired of watching smart, capable people waste their best working hours on busywork that software could handle in milliseconds. You shouldn't need a computer science degree to make your apps work together.
Here's how we do it together: we start by looking at your workflow and identifying exactly which tasks are worth automating — and how much time you'd actually get back. Then we build, live and hands-on, in both Zapier and Make. You'll go from "I've never touched an automation tool" to running real, multi-step workflows connecting Gmail, Google Sheets, Slack, Notion, Airtable, and your CRM. We don't skip the messy parts either — you'll learn how to read error logs, debug broken scenarios, and keep your automations healthy as your business changes.
I've written every lesson the way I'd explain it to a smart colleague sitting next to me: no jargon, no assumptions, just clear click-by-click guidance with enough context that you actually understand what you're building and why. Small wins matter here — every working automation is a reason to feel good about what you've built.
By the end, you won't just have a handful of automations saving you time. You'll have a framework, a mindset, and a personal roadmap for keep building. The goal isn't to make you dependent on this course — it's to make you the most automation-savvy person in your business. Come build something that works while you sleep.
— Freddy Foster
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