u/Aye_why_jay

I've been with my company for a while handling my normal day-to-day operational management responsibilities, but over the past few months I've gradually taken on a much bigger project that wasn't originally part of my role.

Using HighLevel as the core, I've built and deployed a pretty extensive automation ecosystem, including:

- Complete CRM implementation

- Multiple sales, support, trade, and order fulfillment pipelines

- End-to-end workflow automations

- PandaDoc integration for agreements and document automation

- Shopify Flow integrations

- Zapier automations connecting multiple systems

- Automated lead routing

- Sales/support call routing logic

- Shopify order automations

- Trade account onboarding automations

- Opportunity creation and management

- Reporting improvements

- Custom fields, tags, triggers, and pipeline architecture

On top of that, I'm still doing all of my regular operational management work every day. None of those responsibilities have gone away.

The company didn't hire an agency or consultant—I designed, built, tested, and deployed everything internally. It's now saving the team a significant amount of manual work and gives management much better visibility into operations.

I'm at the point where I feel this work has created a lot of value for the company, and I'd like to have a conversation with my boss about additional compensation.

For those of you who have been in a similar situation:

- How would you approach this conversation?

- Would you ask for a salary increase, a bonus, a promotion, or some combination of those?

- If you were the employer, how would you value this kind of work?

- If you were consulting instead of doing it as an employee, what would you charge for building a system like this?

I'd really appreciate hearing from agency owners, consultants, and anyone who's built complex HighLevel implementations. I'm trying to figure out what would be a fair way to value this work before I have the conversation.

Thanks in advance!

I've been with my company for a while handling my normal day-to-day operational management responsibilities, but over the past few months I've gradually taken on a much bigger project that wasn't originally part of my role.

Using HighLevel as the core, I've built and deployed a pretty extensive automation ecosystem, including:

- Complete CRM implementation

- Multiple sales, support, trade, and order fulfillment pipelines

- End-to-end workflow automations

- PandaDoc integration for agreements and document automation

- Shopify Flow integrations

- Zapier automations connecting multiple systems

- Automated lead routing

- Sales/support call routing logic

- Shopify order automations

- Trade account onboarding automations

- Opportunity creation and management

- Reporting improvements

- Custom fields, tags, triggers, and pipeline architecture

On top of that, I'm still doing all of my regular operational management work every day. None of those responsibilities have gone away.

The company didn't hire an agency or consultant—I designed, built, tested, and deployed everything internally. It's now saving the team a significant amount of manual work and gives management much better visibility into operations.

I'm at the point where I feel this work has created a lot of value for the company, and I'd like to have a conversation with my boss about additional compensation.

For those of you who have been in a similar situation:

- How would you approach this conversation?

- Would you ask for a salary increase, a bonus, a promotion, or some combination of those?

- If you were the employer, how would you value this kind of work?

- If you were consulting instead of doing it as an employee, what would you charge for building a system like this?

I'd really appreciate hearing from agency owners, consultants, and anyone who's built complex HighLevel implementations. I'm trying to figure out what would be a fair way to value this work before I have the conversation.

Thanks in advance!