// the story behind autoplo

We didn't build this
for the market.

We built it for Maddy. She does nails. She's brilliant at it. She shouldn't have to spend her evenings writing Instagram captions.


// where this started

Maddy is a nail technician. She's the kind of person clients rebook six months in advance because they'd rather wait than go anywhere else. Her work speaks for itself. Her marketing didn't.

Every evening, after a full day on her feet, she'd sit down and try to write something for Instagram. Usually it was fine. Sometimes it was good. But it always cost her time she didn't have — and it never felt quite like her.

She wasn't spending evenings writing posts because she wanted to. She was doing it because she had to. There was no one else to do it. No agency budget. No marketing team. Just Maddy, her phone, and a blank caption box staring back at her.

I'm a developer. I watched this happen. I decided to fix it.

“She's brilliant at her craft. She shouldn't have to spend Sunday evenings writing Instagram captions.”

I built something that would connect to her Instagram, read how she writes, learn what she cares about, and start drafting content that actually sounded like her. Then I added the bookings side — so it could see her calendar, spot the quiet Tuesday slots, and draft a last-minute offer before she even thought to ask.

I showed Maddy. She said yes. That was Autoplo.

// the reality for most service business owners

6h
Average hours per week spent on marketing by independent service business owners
£0
What most of them charge themselves for those hours. It's invisible labour.
28
Sectors Autoplo supports. From nail techs to plumbers, coaches to restaurants.
1
Click to approve. Every draft sits in a queue until you say yes.

// what happened next

What Plo does
for Maddy

Plo is the AI at the heart of Autoplo. Here's exactly what it started doing the day Maddy connected her accounts — with no setup, no brief, no instruction.

01
Learned her voice
Plo read Maddy's last 40 Instagram posts. Studied her emoji style, her hashtags, her caption length, the way she talks about her work. The next caption it wrote sounded like her — because it was based on her.
02
Spotted the quiet slots
Plo connected to her Google Calendar. Every quiet Tuesday or slow Friday afternoon, it drafted a last-minute availability post and a short email to her regulars. No nagging. Just options in the approval queue.
03
Brought back lapsed clients
Plo noticed 11 clients Maddy hadn't seen in over 6 weeks. It wrote 11 personalised re-engagement emails — referencing their usual service, their last visit. Maddy approved and sent them in under 3 minutes.
04
Handled the ads
Maddy set a budget. Plo built a Meta ad campaign — in her brand colours, targeting her local area, with copy that matched her tone. She approved the creative. Nothing spent until she said yes.
05
Wrote the weekly briefing
Every Monday morning, Plo sends Maddy a summary: how last week went, which clients are overdue a visit, which posts performed best, and what to focus on this week.

// the approval queue

🖼️
Instagram post
Tuesday 9am
Approve
📧
Re-engagement email — 11 clients
Monday 8am
Approve
📅
Quiet slot offer — Friday PM
Sunday 7pm
Approve
📣
Meta ad campaign — Local
Wednesday 10am
Approve
📊
Weekly briefing
Monday 6am
Approve

Every draft. Every email. Every ad. Nothing leaves until Maddy taps approve.


// then her sister tried it

Kendal is a hair artist.
Different craft,
same problem.

Maddy mentioned Autoplo to her sister Kendal, who runs her own hair studio. Different niche, different clients, different content style — but the same invisible labour every evening.

Kendal was sceptical. She didn't think an AI would get the vibe of a hair artist. She connected her Instagram on a Tuesday and had a draft caption in the queue by Wednesday morning. Her words: “That's actually what I would have written.”

That's the point. Autoplo doesn't run generic ads. It runs yours.

★★★★★

“I didn't think it would work for a hair artist — most tools feel like they're built for big salons. But within a day, Plo was writing captions that sounded like me. My re-booking rate has gone up noticeably and I haven't had to think about Instagram once.”

Kendal — Hair Artist  ·  Autoplo subscriber

// bigger than we thought

We built it for a nail tech.
Then we realised.

Every service business owner is dealing with the same thing. The evenings writing content. The quiet slots that stay empty. The clients who drift away. The ads that never get made because there's nobody to make them.

💅
Nail Technician
Where Autoplo started. Plo fills quiet slots, writes captions, runs re-engagement.
✂️
Hair Artist
Kendal uses it. Plo handles Instagram and keeps clients coming back.
🏋️
Personal Trainer
Members drifting? Plo re-engages them. Quiet Tuesday? Plo fills it.
🔧
Tradesperson
Seasonal peaks, Google reviews, quiet spells. Plo handles the lot.
🍽️
Restaurant & Café
Midweek covers, seasonal menus, Google reviews. Plo plans ahead.
🏠
Estate Agent
New instruction? Plo writes the listing post, the email, the follow-up.
🧠
Life Coach
Plo finds the right words for your audience so you can focus on them.
🐾
Pet Groomer
Regular clients, seasonal promotions, review replies. All handled.

And 20 more — 28 sectors in total, every one fully supported.


“Most marketing tools are built for brands with marketing teams. We built Autoplo for the person who is the brand, the marketer, the accountant, and the receptionist — all before lunch.”
// Jordan — founder, Autoplo

// your turn

If it works for Maddy
and Kendal, it works
for you.

One price. Every feature. Cancel any time. No setup call. No agency. Just Autoplo, learning your voice and doing the work.