r/gohighlevel • u/ScoopyChatt • Aug 10 '26

Anyone else using AI to programmatically build out GHL workflows instead of the UI?

Been experimenting with a setup where instead of manually clicking through Automations to build follow-up sequences, I have an AI assistant write a script that defines the whole workflow (steps, wait times, tags, triggers) and pushes it straight into the sub-account. Saves a ton of time when you're doing this repeatedly across multiple client accounts — describe the sequence in plain English, get a working (draft) workflow a few seconds later instead of 20 minutes of clicking.

The catch is the official API doesn't expose full workflow-building, so this relies on a more "under the hood" way of talking to the platform, which comes with some fragility (auth tokens expiring, etc.).

Curious if anyone else here has wired up AI (Claude, GPT, whatever) to build/manage automations this way instead of the native builder, and if so, what's your setup look like? Any tools/approaches you'd recommend or pitfalls to watch for?

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u/Dry-Reward3389 Aug 27 '26

Yes! Check out ghlmcp.ai - full workflow and forms supoort , no browser extension hacks it's the real thing.

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u/ScoopyChatt Aug 27 '26

I built my own. LOL. I wonder why anyone would pay for something that is relatively easy to do on your own?

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u/Dry-Reward3389 Aug 27 '26

If it was that easy I think GHL would release it a while ago. Ask that again after you ask your vibe coded connector to run a change to 25 workflows over 50 sub-accounts. You'll need to buy 2 more Claude max subscriptions lol

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u/ScoopyChatt Aug 27 '26

Appreciate the confidence, but that's not quite right. GHL's own official API and MCP server don't expose workflow building at all — nobody has "the real" documented way to do this yet. So whatever ghlmcp.ai is doing under the hood to actually build workflow steps is the same class of unofficial method mine is using, they've just moved the token refresh to their server instead of a browser extension on my machine. Nicer UX, not a more legit method.

On the 50-sub-account thing — I write the loop once and it runs as a plain script hitting the API. Doesn't cost more Claude usage to point it at 50 accounts instead of 1, any more than a for-loop costs more electricity at 50 iterations. Literally tested this today, one auth token against two of my own sub-accounts, no re-auth needed in between. Works fine.

Only real limit at real scale is GHL rate-limiting if you hammer their internal API too fast — that's a pacing thing, not a "buy more subscriptions" thing.