Quick Demo: Set Up Your First Marketing Automation Workflow with Claude in Under 10 Minutes

Quick Demo: Set Up Your First Marketing Automation Workflow
By the end of this guide, you'll have your first Claude marketing automation workflow running — a practical setup that connects Claude to your existing tools and automates a real task you're currently doing manually.
Who This Is For
Marketers who haven't set up any AI automation yet and want a working example
Business owners who don't have a developer on staff
Agency teams looking for a quick AI win they can demo to clients
Anyone who wants to understand how Claude connects to external tools before tackling a bigger build
What You'll Build
An automation trigger that starts a workflow based on a real event in your business
A data processing step where Claude reads, summarizes, or transforms the incoming information
A delivery mechanism that sends the output to a tool you already use
A reusable workflow template you can duplicate and adapt for other tasks
What You'll Need
Claude Pro — claude.ai
Make.com or Zapier (free tier works for this guide)
One marketing tool to connect (email platform, CRM, or Slack)
10 minutes for initial setup
Going Further
Add a second automation step — chain the output of this workflow into another Claude action
Build a content approval loop by routing Claude's output to Slack for a human sign-off before it sends
Connect to your CRM and have Claude auto-generate follow-up email sequences from new lead data