AI Workflows

AI Workflows

Use AI to do the marketing work: copy, content, video, and the automations that run it all for you.

This is where you point AI at the actual marketing work: writing copy, building content, making video, and wiring up the automations that keep it running while you sleep. It's built for operators growing a digital asset on their own, with no team to hand things off to. You won't get vague theory here. You'll get the real direct-response craft handed to you as copy-paste prompts you can run today.

Sub-silos

Explore ai workflows by topic

Free guides

Latest ai workflows guides

AI for MarketingAI cold email personalization at scale diagram showing a research signal feeding a first-line prompt into a personalized sequence.

AI Cold Email Personalization at Scale: The Prompt Playbook

AI cold email personalization at scale, done right: research-backed first lines and full sequences so 500 emails read hand-written, not mail-merge spam.
Don Lyons·Jul 15, 2026
AI for MarketingConcept diagram of an AI lead scoring system plotting fit score on one axis and intent score on the other, with negative scoring subtracting points and time decay fading old activity, sorting leads into chase-now, nurture, deprioritize, and ignore quadrants.

How to Build a Lead Scoring System With AI (No Data Team)

How to build a lead scoring system with AI as a solo founder: score fit plus intent, add negative scoring and decay, and chase only the leads worth chasing.
Don Lyons·Jul 13, 2026
AI for MarketingConcept diagram for how to write product descriptions with AI showing a five-layer prompt stack turning raw specs into benefit-led copy.

How to Write Product Descriptions With AI That Actually Sell

How to write product descriptions with AI that sell: a 5-part prompt stack that bakes benefits, sensory hooks, and objection pre-empts into bulk product copy.
Don Lyons·Jul 11, 2026
AI for MarketingDecision-flow diagram answering does google penalize ai content, showing Google judges whether content is helpful, original, and first-hand, not whether AI wrote it, with helpful pages staying indexed and thin scaled content demoted.

Will Google Penalize AI Content? What Actually Gets You Demoted

Does Google penalize AI content? No. Here is what actually gets demoted, the scaled content abuse rule, and a self-audit prompt to keep your pages indexed.
Don Lyons·Jun 30, 2026
AI for MarketingConcept diagram showing how agent-ready content with unique, verifiable traits flows through AI engines and agents to get cited in the answer, while a thin generic page is skipped.

How to Make Your Content AI-Agent-Ready (So AI Cites and Uses It)

Agent-ready content is what AI engines and browsing agents can read, trust, and cite. Here is what actually works, grounded in Google guidance and real research.
Don Lyons·Jun 30, 2026
Automation & MCPsConcept diagram of agentic loops showing a human-authored goal feeding an act, observe, decide cycle the model runs until a stop condition or human gate halts it.

What Are Agentic Loops? The Operator’s Guide to Set-and-Forget AI

Agentic loops let the model run the act, observe, decide cycle while you set the goal and guardrails. A plain guide with a copy-paste loop you can run today.
Don Lyons·Jun 28, 2026
AI for MarketingConcept diagram of reusable AI prompts: a one-off throwaway chat used twice flows through a promptify meta-prompt into a saved skill template with input slots and an embedded checklist, then runs on demand with an improve-and-version loop back into the skill.

How to Turn One-Off AI Prompts Into Reusable Skills

Turn reusable AI prompts into saved skills you run on demand. Get the promptify meta-prompt, the 2x rule for what to save, and a no-code path you can use today.
Don Lyons·Jun 28, 2026
Automation & MCPsConcept diagram showing how scheduled ai agents fire on a clock trigger, run one scoped job, draft the work, then stop at a gold human approval gate before committing, looping back each cycle

How to Run AI Agents on a Schedule (Set-and-Forget Marketing)

Learn how to run scheduled AI agents that do one recurring marketing job while you sleep, with a no-code path, a CLI path, and a human-on-commit guardrail.
Don Lyons·Jun 28, 2026
Automation & MCPsConcept diagram showing how to connect an AI agent to tools through an MCP server, with a read-first probe, one safe draft write, and a gold security gate that keeps publishing human-approved.

How to Connect an AI Agent to Your Marketing Tools (MCP Starter Build)

Learn how to connect an AI agent to tools with a minimal MCP config, a read-then-write probe, and a security gate that keeps publishing human-approved.
Don Lyons·Jun 28, 2026
AI ToolsConcept diagram showing how to build your own AI tool by handing a plain-English job to an AI agent that returns a runnable script and terminal commands, with a separate path to wrap any app or OpenAPI spec into an agent-native CLI, all gated by a gold sandbox review step before touching live accounts.

How to Build Your Own AI Marketing Tool (No Engineer Needed)

Learn to build your own AI tool for a recurring marketing job: a no-code path first, then a copy-paste spec-to-script prompt and a way to wrap any app.
Don Lyons·Jun 28, 2026
AI Content & VideoConcept diagram of self-correcting AI content showing a Writer drafting, a Critic scoring against brand rules and returning named fixes, the revise loop repeating until it passes, then a gold human approve gate before publish.

How to Build a Self-Correcting AI Content Agent (Writer + Critic Loop)

Build a self-correcting AI content agent with a Writer + Critic loop that catches weak hooks, fluff, and AI tells before you ever read the draft.
Don Lyons·Jun 28, 2026
AI for MarketingConcept diagram of an ai research loop where one question splits into sub-queries, fans out across recent sources, cross-checks each claim against two or more sources, flags single-source claims as unverified and loops back, then returns one cited brief.

How to Build an AI Research Loop That Cites Real Sources

An AI research loop fans out across recent sources, cross-checks every claim, flags single-source facts, and hands you one cited brief. Here is how to build one.
Don Lyons·Jun 28, 2026
Automation & MCPsConcept diagram of an ai competitor monitoring loop that runs on a schedule to read rival pages, save a snapshot, diff it against the last run, and send only the changes to a human in Slack or inbox.

How to Automate Competitor Monitoring With an AI Agent

Set up AI competitor monitoring that wakes you to a daily diff brief of what rivals changed, launched, or repriced. No-code and terminal paths inside.
Don Lyons·Jun 28, 2026
Automation & MCPsZapier marketing automation diagram showing one lead form trigger firing four actions into an email list, Slack, a customer tag, and a spreadsheet.

Zapier for Marketing Automation: Starter Guide

Zapier marketing automation made simple. The exact plug-and-play Zaps a non-technical marketer can build this afternoon, step by step, with a copy-paste AI prompt.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
AI for MarketingDiagram of the 3-step de-AI workflow to write copy with AI without sounding like AI: a raw AI draft moves through voice extraction, specificity injection, and the edit pass before publishing, with a loop back when more than three AI tells are flagged.

How to Write Copy With AI Without Sounding Like AI (The 3-Step De-AI Workflow)

Learn how to use AI to write copy that sounds like you, not a bot. A 3-step de-AI workflow with copy-paste prompts for voice extraction, specificity, and the edit pass.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
Automation & MCPsDiagram showing how to connect MCP to your tools, with an AI client sending requests through an MCP server so the AI can read and act inside your email tool and sheet.

What Are MCPs and How to Connect Them to Your Tools

What are MCPs in plain English, plus how to connect MCP to your tools: a real walkthrough wiring an AI into your email and sheet so it acts, not just talks.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
Automation & MCPsDiagram of the no-code marketing workflows anatomy: a trigger fires an AI step that thinks, then an action runs, with a human approval gate before anything ships.

No-Code Marketing Workflows: 7 to Steal (2026)

7 plug-and-play no-code workflows a solo marketer can copy this week, each with the AI step and a copy-paste prompt baked in. No coding required.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
Automation & MCPsAn n8n for beginners workflow diagram showing a lead form trigger flowing through CRM, tag, welcome email, and log nodes.

n8n for Marketers: Beginner’s Guide (2026)

n8n for beginners: why operators pick it over Zapier and Make, plus a step-by-step lead-to-CRM-to-email workflow you can copy and an AI prompt to build it faster.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
AI for MarketingDiagram of marketing with AI as a system: operator inputs feeding one AI engine that runs four jobs — copy, content, ads, and automation.

Marketing With AI: The Operator System for the Whole Stack

Marketing with AI works when you treat it as a system across copy, content, ads, and automation. Here's the operator stack, with copy-paste prompts.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
Automation & MCPsA marketing automation for beginners flow showing one form-submission trigger firing five no-code actions plus an optional AI/MCP step.

Marketing Automation for Beginners: n8n, Zapier, Make, and MCPs

Marketing automation for beginners: what to automate first, n8n vs Zapier vs Make compared, what MCPs add, plus a real lead-to-email flow you can copy.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
Automation & MCPsDiagram of a five-module Make.com marketing automation scenario flowing from a lead form trigger to CRM, tag, welcome email, and a logging step.

Make.com for Marketing Automation: Beginner Guide

Make.com marketing automation for beginners: when Make beats Zapier on price and power, plus a real multi-step lead-to-CRM-to-email scenario you can build today.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
AI for MarketingThe answer-first AEO workflow for how to use AI for SEO, a five-step loop from picking the real question to stress-testing the page against the live AI answer.

How to Use AI for SEO and AEO (Get Cited in 2026)

How to use AI for SEO and AEO: the answer-first prompt workflow we use to rank on Google and get cited by ChatGPT and AI Overviews in 2026.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
AI for MarketingA three-pass AI for email marketing workflow diagram showing brief, draft, then edit stages feeding a finished campaign.

How to Use AI for Email Marketing (Prompts + Workflow)

Use AI for email marketing the right way: draft, segment, and sequence a full campaign that sounds human. Copy-paste prompts plus the welcome-sequence chain.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
AI for MarketingThe AI for ads workflow in order: angles, hooks, copy, creative, then launch and iterate on the winning angle, with a human gate at every step.

How to Use AI for Ads (Creative, Copy, and Targeting)

How to use AI for ads the right way: angles, hooks, copy, then creative. The full paid-ads workflow with copy-paste prompts, judged by a media buyer.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
AI Content & VideoDiagram of how to repurpose content with AI: one pillar asset runs through a three-prompt chain that extracts ideas, maps them to channels, and writes 20 posts, emails, and clips.

How to Repurpose Content With AI (1 to 20 Pieces)

Repurpose content with AI using one pillar asset and a 3-prompt chain. Turn a single video into 20 posts, emails, and clips mapped to each channel.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
AI Content & VideoThe four-beat hook script structure for making AI UGC ads: hook, problem, turn, and soft close, feeding a generate-and-keep test loop.

How to Make AI UGC Ads That Actually Sell (2026)

Make AI UGC ads that convert: copy-paste hook script prompts, the best avatar tools, and where AI UGC still loses to real creators. Direct-response craft, no fluff.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
AI Content & VideoFour-layer AI image creation prompt structure stacking subject, style, composition, and technical details into one usable prompt.

How to Create Marketing Images With AI (2026 Guide)

AI image creation for marketing: the prompt structure and brand-consistency tricks to generate on-brand hero images, ad visuals, and diagrams that actually work.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
AI Content & VideoDiagram showing how to create content with AI by turning one recorded source asset into a week of repurposed posts.

How to Create Content and Video With AI (Without the Slop)

How to create content with AI: a real workflow for scripting, faceless video, UGC, and turning one asset into a week of posts. No slop.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
AI Content & VideoDiagram of how to create AI videos for marketing as a four-stage pipeline from script to visuals, voice, and edit, feeding ad and sales output.

How to Create AI Videos for Marketing (2026 Workflow)

How to create AI videos that actually sell: a 2026 operator pipeline for script, avatar or b-roll, voice, and edit, aimed at ad and sales output.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
Automation & MCPsA GoHighLevel for beginners diagram showing the first build: a two-page opt-in funnel feeding a form into one automation workflow that tags the lead and follows up by email.

GoHighLevel for Beginners: The Operator’s Guide (2026)

GoHighLevel for beginners, minus the affiliate hype. What GHL actually replaces, what it costs you to run, and the first funnel-plus-automation to build this week.
Don Lyons·Jun 27, 2026
Free download

Get the free AI marketing prompt pack.

The real prompts, templates, and swipe files we use for ai workflows. Free. Unsubscribe anytime, no spam.

Operator-to-operator. No fluff.