Cheap AI automation for agencies that must keep clients apart

Your stuck point is naming: six or seven clients, one shared inbox mixing them, and no way to show a client which lead arrived through which connection. Decide on Automate only if the setup screen lets you connect one client's sending account apart from the next, and keeps each run readable on its own.

In practice you open the connection screen and add each client's apps as a separate connection, so outreach for one client never draws on another's sending identity. Work then runs inside the accounts you connected rather than through a shared platform mailbox. That is the separation your objection is really about.

Before paying, write down which apps each client uses and check that each connection can be approved by the client's own account holder. Automate runs inside your accounts, so your access follows what those accounts allow. If a client's app needs an administrator nod, get that before you schedule sends.

Tiers here split by volume and by who owns the model key, not by a longer feature list. The Starter and Growth lifetime tiers differ in how much work you can run; the BYOK unlimited lifetime tier moves model billing to your own key. For an agency with six or seven clients, volume is the number that decides your tier.

Count the outreach runs you would schedule in a settled month across all clients, then pick the tier that covers that with room for a busy month. Moving up buys capacity for more client connections and more runs, not extra controls. The activity log and guided setup appear across the tiers rather than being held back.

Where the larger tier earns its place is month three, when a seventh client arrives and your sending volume climbs. Buying capacity early avoids stalling mid campaign. Read the tier table on softwareprogrammer.app, match it to your monthly run count, and treat the jump as a volume decision you can justify to yourself.

Your concern about one shared inbox is the right one to hold onto. Ask, before paying, whether each client's connection stays distinct in the activity log, because that log is what you show a client when they ask where a lead came from. If the log lists runs per connection, the fear of mixing clients loses its grip.

Proof of lead source is the second half of the same question. Each run inside a client's own account leaves a trace you can point at, and the guided setup keeps the first connections tidy rather than tangled. Build one client first, watch the log for a week, then add the rest once the pattern reads cleanly.

Budget for the tier that matches your volume rather than the smallest one, since a stalled run in front of a client costs more than the tier step. Keep your client list beside the connection screen so nothing is added twice. That habit, more than any setting, keeps client sending apart as the agency grows.

Set Growth lifetime against BYOK unlimited lifetime. Growth gives you a fixed volume under one lifetime purchase, which suits an agency whose run count is stable and predictable across six or seven clients. BYOK unlimited lifts the volume ceiling and hands model billing to your own key, which suits an agency expecting uneven months.

The trade is simple to state. Growth keeps all billing in one place and caps how much you run. BYOK unlimited removes the cap but splits cost, because your provider bills the model key separately. Neither tier changes how many clients you can connect or whether the log records each connection.

If your clients send steadily and you dislike a second bill, pick Growth. If volume swings with new client wins, pick BYOK unlimited and keep your model key spending visible. Both are lifetime purchases, so the choice is about volume and billing split rather than a monthly seat you can cancel.