Shaurs

Helping founders save 20–30 hours/week and Recover 20k+ of missed revenue with | Partner | Consultant Agency

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We don't just build automations.

We build the system that runs your business while you sleep.

Audit to plan to build, and then hand it off. Fully yours.

Most agencies keep you dependent.

We hand you the keys.

Book a free Ops Audit from the link in bio.

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@yollyyollyyolly Thank you!

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Client study for OpsLabs.

We just shipped BrokerStaffer's entire ops backend. Seven systems, one behind the other.

They recruit real estate agents at national scale. The same agent shows up in three systems, spelled three ways, with three different sales figures.

Collect all three and you get three records for one person. Pick one and throw the rest away and you lose numbers you paid for.
The whole product depends on solving that. No amount of careful spreadsheet work solves it at 2.5 million rows.

Here's what we built at OpsLabs:

- Agent database: 2.5M records, 70 fields per agent, Additive writes only, Never overwrites, Never deletes

- Collection engine: Three sources merged into one schema on the way in, Rolling 15-day refresh keeps every row current

- Client onboarding: Nine stages, Only four human actions in the entire flow

- Campaign analytics: Twelve sync jobs, cursor-based, no webhooks, 214.6K sent, 82.1K prospects, 2.9K replies tracked across two sending platforms.

- MasterInbox: 8,030 replies categorised on the way in by workspace-configured AI, Reply Agents pre-load drafts in the composer, Fifty replies triaged in half an hour.

- Client portals: The link is the credential, No signup, No password, No support ticket

- Health dashboard: Four sources rolled up into one weekly number per client, Every figure traces back to who said it.

Their whole system runs on one line:
"One record per agent, whatever the source."

The stack:

- Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind 4, shadcn/ui. TanStack Query and Zustand on top.

- Supabase Postgres with Row-Level Security scoped per workspace, plus pgcrypto encrypting every stored API key. Isolation is structural, not careful.

- Supabase Realtime pushes new replies live to the inbox. No polling on that path.

- Webhook-based ingestion from EmailBison and Instantly, signature-verified before parsing.

- AI Labeling + Reply Agents configurable per workspace across OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, or self-hosted vLLM. Reply Agents run Human-in-the-Loop by default. Auto is reserved for low-risk sends only.

- Cursor-based polling for campaign analytics instead of webhooks. A missed poll is fetched again. A missed webhook is gone forever.

- Typeform, Calendly, Gmail, Slack, Stripe wired into the onboarding orchestrator. Every step duplicate-guarded, every failed send retried on a 10-minute timer.

- TypeScript throughout. Idempotent everywhere. Additive writes only.

That's not an automation retainer.

That's infrastructure.

If you're running a business where the same customer shows up in four systems that disagree, book a call. Link in bio.

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I graduated from university with a degree in Business in 2024.

Two years later I run OpsLabs with 10+ people, 50+ clients, and a global clientbase.

Here's the timeline nobody sees:

2021: Graduated high school. COVID.

2021: Started a business degree. Half of it was on Zoom. All of it felt useless.

2023: A friend needed an intern at his web dev agency. Hired me for SMMA. Hired my brother for cold email. First real look at how an agency actually gets built. First real look at running a business internationally.

2024: My brother and I turned down every corporate route and launched Outreachify. A cold email agency.

End of 2024: Outreachify at ~$20K MRR. And we started seeing the same gap in every cold email agency we met. Drowning in manual ops. So we tried our hands at Airtable and https://t.co/AD3asEdamc. First for us. Then for our first few clients.

Early 2025: No-code hit its ceiling. We branched out into fully custom, hard-coded systems built for the way each agency actually runs.

Mid-2025: Rebranded that work as OpsLabs. Not automation. Infrastructure.

End of 2025: OpsLabs also at $20K MRR. 30+ clients shipped.

Today: Ecom, SaaS, Marketing, Recruiting, Web dev, Cold email, Meta ads. Every industry that runs on operations.

No investors. No accelerator. No plan B.

Three things I've learned:

- You don't need a corporate job to start. You need a platform.

- When people see the hunger, they offer you the platform. When clients see the hunger, they pay you.

- The best businesses aren't ideas. They're things you were already annoyed by, built for people who were also annoyed by them.

If you're in year one and second-guessing everything, this is your sign to keep going.

Year one is supposed to look ridiculous.

That's my story, and how I started Opslabs. What's yours?

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The way we use software is quietly shifting.

Nobody's opening five tabs anymore. They're opening one AI and asking it to handle the whole thing.

Search, slides, code, writing it's all collapsing into a single window.

The old tools didn't die. People just stopped needing most of them.

And honestly, we're still early. What feels normal today will look ancient in a year.

If you want the shortcut, grab the guide.

Comment "TOOLS", and I'll send you the full list.

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@i_mika_el Absolutely!

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A CS grad to build your automations: $8k to $10k a month.

OpsLabs: $2.5k to $3k a month.

That's not even the biggest gap.

Time is.

Your new dev spends the first 2 to 3 months learning your stack, your workflows, your tools. You pay full salary during all of it. That's $20k to $30k spent before a single automation ships.

OpsLabs starts on day one. First automation live in week one. Second one queued the week after. No ramp. No training budget. No "let me just get familiar with the codebase" runway.
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Then there's the stack problem.

A CS grad might know Python. Might know a bit of React. Might have touched an API once. What they haven't done is built with n8n, Bison, Emailguard, ClickUp Brain, Airtable, Supabase, Claude, and the twelve other tools your ops actually runs on.

We have. Every day. Across dozens of live client systems.

You're not paying us to learn. You're paying us to deliver.

Hire an in-house dev when you have three years of runway and want a full-time engineer in the building. Hire OpsLabs when you need the automation shipped this quarter.

If you're paying $8k a month for someone whose first three months are training, you're funding their education.

Nothing wrong with that. Just be honest about what you bought.

Book a call. Link in bio.

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Imagine MrBeast handed you a coffee shop and said Grow it to $100K in 90 days.

Most people would burn out trying to do everything alone.

I wouldn't.

I'd build a team of AI agents.

One running marketing.

One answering customers around the clock. One tracking inventory.

One handling loyalty. One spotting sales trends before I even notice them.

The repetitive stuff runs itself. I focus on growth.

Comment “AGENTS”, and I'll send you 185+ free AI agents you can start using today.

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Sam Altman quit one habit, and it's the same one killing your best ideas.

Every free second, you grab your phone. No pause. No silence. No space to think.

But that's exactly where the good ideas live.

In the boring in-between moments most people fill with scrolling.

And now that AI can build almost anything for anyone, the people with the sharpest ideas win.

So be honest, could you sit through one full hour without touching your phone?

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Everyone asks: Pipedrive or ClickUp. Which one wins?

Here's the honest answer: neither. They're not the same tool.

I've deployed both for clients this year. Different jobs. Different outcomes.

Pipedrive wins when your business IS the pipeline.

If you're a sales team whose entire day is deals moving through stages, forecasting revenue, chasing follow-ups, Pipedrive is a sniper rifle.

Every screen is built around the deal card.
Every automation is built around the sales motion.

The AI Sales Assistant flags stalled deals inside the pipeline you already opened. $14/user/mo entry, AI baked into every tier since 2026.

Where Pipedrive falls apart: the moment sales closes and delivery has to happen. The Projects add-on tries. It's not the same as a real project management surface.

ClickUp wins when your business is running the actual work.

If your team is delivering client engagements, shipping product, managing operations, tracking tasks across departments, ClickUp is the operating system.

Docs, dashboards, tasks, automations, AI Notetaker, Brain MAX for cross-tool queries.

$9/user/mo Brain add-on that replaces Otter + Zapier + Notion AI in one line item.

Where ClickUp falls apart: as a pure sales CRM.

You CAN configure custom statuses and boards to work as a pipeline.

You'll rebuild what Pipedrive ships out of the box.

The framework:

- If sales IS your business (revenue = deal-close velocity), buy Pipedrive.
- If sales is one function inside a delivery org, buy ClickUp and configure a light pipeline in it.

If you're doing $500K+ ARR with both a sales team and a delivery team, buy both and stop pretending you can compress two organizations into one tool.

The best tool stack isn't the one that eliminates the second license. It's the one where each tool is used for what it's actually best at.

Sign up to ClickUp and get 10% off today: https://t.co/ApcvkXd7ah

Sign up to Pipedrive today: https://t.co/zis2re5baZ

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Most business owners chase leads before they even have systems to handle them.

That's backwards.

If I took over a dying plumbing business tomorrow, I wouldn't touch a website or run ads.

I'd build an AI setup to run the office. Missed calls, quotes, bookings, follow-ups, review requests, all handled.

Plumbers plumb. Everything else runs itself.

The fastest-growing businesses aren't the loudest. They just have better systems.

Comment "AGENTS", and I'll send you 185+ free AI agents that can run a business on autopilot.

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@yevloop 100%

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I remember for the longest time Opslabs did not have a pitch deck.

Then for a very long time I was conflicted as to how the document should look, how should it place the business and out of the 500+ custom systems we've delivered across 50+ clients, how do I categorise them.

I wanted to add everything, every testimonial, every case study, but that would've resulted in a 300 page document.

Here's what we cooked:

1. Identify the biggest pain point we solve: Coming in as operation partners help save your business time and improve margins without increasing headcount.

2. Compare with alternate options: Be it by hiring someone with a tech background for $5-10k/month and training him for 2 months before he gives results, or trying another route. This comparison is hella important.

3. Divide into main categories: I divided all systems into subheads:

1. Databases
2. Dashboards
3. Webapps
4. Slack automations
5. AI agents
6. MCPs and intelligence layers
7. Scrapers and custom scripts

4. Add visuals and Real life examples: Instead of explaining all these like a textbook would, I added animated visuals of how these work, interactive interfaces and added the real life examples that we've made.

Authority, proof of work and easy understanding. All at once.

5. Result based case studies: Instead of having names of my clients and work we did, I focussed on showing the results they got. Like Buzzlead saved 20hrs/month and got back 20k in lost MRR. OutboundHero scaled from 25k to 175k MRR.

6. Client testimonials: Simple and clear. More the merrier.

Text me if you'd like to have a look at our deck.

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@samanizadiyar Claudamom

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How we built a cold email agency an automated inbox placement testing system that runs across every sender account without a human touching it.

Why you need this:

In cold email, one burned inbox lands you in spam. Five burned inboxes tank a client campaign. Nobody notices until reply rates crater and the CSM is on the phone explaining.

The old fix is running Emailguard placement tests by hand across every sender inbox. It works. It takes 4+ hours a day. And nobody actually does it consistently.

The setup: Cold email deliverability isn't a marketing metric. It's an infrastructure metric.
Every sender inbox behaves differently. Some land in the Gmail promotions tab. Some hit Microsoft spam. Some bounce silently. Without testing, you're sending from senders that haven't hit an inbox in two weeks and you don't know.

Do that across 500 inboxes and 20 clients and you need a system.

We built two coordinated n8n workflows that run the entire placement test lifecycle automatically.

Here's what it does:

- Airtable triggers a bulk test via webhook for every sender across a client
- Loops through each sender with a 2-second rate limit that protects the APIs
- Creates a placement test in Emailguard for each inbox (4 Google + 4 Microsoft addresses)
- Sends the test through the Bison API with a unique filter phrase to track it
- Waits 2 minutes for delivery and provider categorization
- Retrieves results and calculates: Google inbox/spam/bounce, Microsoft inbox/spam/bounce
- Computes the overall placement score: (Total Inbox / Total Delivered) × 100
- Writes every metric back to Airtable, per sender, per test

The outcomes:
Zero manual placement testing.
Zero burned inboxes silently sending to spam.
Zero clients getting a surprise deliverability drop mid-campaign.
Every sender scored.
Every test tracked.
Every drop caught before it costs a client.

The best cold email agencies aren't the ones with the biggest inbox lists. They're the ones who know exactly which inbox is worth sending from today.

If you're running cold email at scale and your placement testing is still someone's evening ritual, book a call. Link in bio.

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Most people are still overpaying for AI tools in 2026 when free alternatives already do the job better.

Claude writes sharper than Grammarly and actually understands what you're trying to say.

Google AI Studio gives you top models without a Perplexity Pro subscription.

Flux handles image generation without Midjourney's monthly fee.

Dia creates natural AI voices for free.

And Napkin AI turns messy ideas into clean visuals in seconds, no Canva needed.

Five subscriptions you can cancel this week.

Save this before your next renewal hits.

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How'd you like the design?

Cooking up client portals login page for OpsLabs.

A source of truth for all client tasks, updates and comments.

Transparency is always king.

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Working with Talent Acquisition and Hiring/recruitment agencies taught me one thing.

All of them needed client and employee onboarding automations.

They all have had long ass onboarding processes which usually took them 5-7hrs everytime they onboarded a client.

But this does not have to be only for them, being in any industry you will need this. If you're facing this issue, FIX IT TODAY.

For reference: We got Lodestar talent down from 5hrs to 5 minutes and Brokkerstaffer from 4hrs to 5 mins.

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Someone actually built Tom Riddle's diary in real life.

Not the Horcrux part, the writing-back part. You write on a tablet; it snaps your handwriting, sends it to Claude, and Claude replies in realistic handwriting sent back to the page.

The detail that got me: your words don't just vanish and get replaced.

They fade out slowly, just like the movie, then the reply shows up seconds later like the notebook wrote it itself.

That one delay is what makes it feel magic instead of just another AI demo.

If you could bring one fictional gadget to life with AI, what would you build first?

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Most people adding AI agents to their business start by building from scratch. Slowest path there is.

Two GitHub repos have 193 pre-built agents ready to fork.

Voice, research, support, docs, all of it. grab the closest, hand it to Claude code with your context, ship it.

Comment AGENTS for links.