The Automation Template That Replaced My VA (And How To Build Yours)
A 4-step content pipeline that writes, reviews, approves, and schedules posts — built entirely from free, open-source nodes.
When I started Mokoro, I was spending 10 hours a week on content: drafting, editing, scheduling, and re-reading the same LinkedIn post five times before hitting publish.
Then I built a four-step pipeline.
Add a row with topic, platform, tone, and publish_date. The automation picks it up.
Send the brief to a low-cost model (GPT-4o-mini / Claude Haiku) with a prompt library that matches the brand voice. Cost: fractions of a cent.
Send the draft into a Slack channel with two buttons: Approve or Edit. If I click Edit, a modal lets me tweak. If I approve, it moves on.
The approved post gets scheduled. The automation writes back to the Google Sheet with the final post URL.
When you productise something that saves you 10 hours a week, there are thousands of founders who’ll pay $79 to skip building it themselves.
That’s the template business: compress your own hard-won experience into a file, document it, record a Loom, and list it.
Build. Document. Ship. Repeat.
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