Filip Gawel

Every department has a week's work nobody should be doing by hand in 2026.

Head of Operations & AI Implementation

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Barcelona

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Remote — Europe & US

I find the recurring work that quietly eats a week — in admin, finance, HR, operations, marketing and sales — and automate it off people's desks. Then I build the operating system that keeps it running, because you cannot automate a process nobody has written down.

Work with me
Filip Gawel
Filip Gawel
AI implementation From nobody using it to 100% of a 25-person team, daily. Claude, Claude Code and MCP wired into the tools people already had open.
Automation Recurring work taken off desks across eight departments — n8n workflows, agents and integrations that run unattended and are documented for whoever inherits them.
Operations The system that carried a company from 8 people to 25 on a four-day week: one operating system, an OKR cycle, onboarding in ten days instead of four weeks.

01 — What I do

Three jobs that only work together

Most AI projects fail one step earlier than people think: the process was never written down, so there was nothing to automate. I work across all three layers, which is why the automation survives after I leave the room.

AI implementation

Get AI into the actual workday

Not a pilot. The version people open on a Tuesday morning without being asked.

Automation

Wire the tools you already pay for

Integrations that run unattended and are documented well enough for someone else to fix.

Operations

Build the system underneath

The unglamorous half. Without it, every automation is built on sand.

02 — Automation

What I have already taken off people's desks

I do not automate for the sake of it. I go looking for the task that repeats, costs a person their morning and produces nothing anyone reads — then take it off the desk for good.

Operations

One system instead of six

Notion and Asana rebuilt as the company operating system, migrated off ClickUp with zero data loss: projects, client portals, wikis, 1:1s and an OKR cycle with KPI coverage for every role. Nobody asks where something lives any more.

Administration

Onboarding stopped being somebody's job

A new hire is productive in ten days instead of four weeks, off written SOPs and 11 reusable internal AI skills anyone on the team can run without asking me first.

Finance

Invoicing and cashflow off the critical path

Invoicing and payment tracking through Qonto and Holded, payroll coordination, vendor negotiation, and cost audits that surface what the company is quietly paying for twice.

HR & hiring

Hiring for every role, from 8 people to 25

Pipeline and ATS in HomeRun, onboarding rebuilt end to end, and the Spain-to-UK employment transition with Deel, Remote, Oyster and Multiplier compared on real numbers rather than sales decks.

Content generation

A weekly company digest that writes and publishes itself

Research, drafting and publishing chained into one workflow. It goes out every Monday and nobody opens a document to make it happen.

Video

A short-form pipeline the production team now runs alone

Research, scripting and publishing as a single workflow, built alongside the editors so it survived the handover — plus the AI media stack (Descript, ElevenLabs, Runway) in daily production use.

Marketing

Publishing on a schedule, not on adrenaline

The short-form pipeline feeds a planned publishing calendar instead of last-minute posts. I also designed and delivered a public masterclass on AI in creative operations for 20+ external professionals.

Sales & CRM

The CRM stopped being a second place to type things

A bidirectional HubSpot ↔ Notion sync so deals and delivery share one source of truth, outbound sourcing and sequencing through Sales Navigator, Clay and Lemlist, and a CTR-based success-fee model on the largest account.

03 — Consulting & freelance

Four ways to hire me for a slice of it

A small number of engagements alongside my day job — the kind where the answer is a working system, not a slide deck. Scope and fee agreed up front, in writing, before anything starts.

01

AI & tool stack audit

1–2 weeks

You are paying for more software than anyone can name, and half of it overlaps. I map what you have, what it costs, what it duplicates and what is missing — then tell you what to buy, what to cancel, and what to connect.

You getA stack map, a keep / cancel / buy list with real costs, and a 90-day rollout order.

02

Automation build

Fixed scope

A specific workflow, built and shipped: n8n automations, Claude agents, MCP integrations, CRM syncs, reporting that assembles itself. Handed over documented, so it is yours and not mine.

You getWorking automations in your accounts, a runbook, and a walkthrough with whoever owns them next.

03

Team enablement

Workshop + follow-up

The part everyone skips. I train non-technical teams to use AI on their own work — with their files, their clients, their annoying Tuesday task — and leave behind prompts and SOPs they will actually reuse.

You getA live session, a shared skills library, SOPs, and an adoption check-in a month later.

04

Fractional operations

Days per month

For founders past the point where everything fits in their head. Operating system, OKRs, onboarding, hiring, finance and vendor ops — set up properly, then handed to the person you hire for it.

You getA documented operating system in Notion or Asana, an OKR cycle running, and an ops hire briefed to take over.

04 — The stack

65Vendors chosen,
wired and paid for

Not software I have read about. Software I have bought and connected.

This is the vendor list of a company I run operations for. It is also why my advice on what to buy tends to be short and specific.

AI & agents

14

Claude is the spine — Claude Code and MCP servers connect it to everything below. The rest is media generation the production team uses daily.

  • Claude Team
  • Claude Max
  • Anthropic API
  • Claude Code
  • MCP
  • ElevenLabs
  • Runway
  • Higgsfield
  • Descript
  • Wispr Flow
  • Speechify
  • Flim.ai
  • Supercut.ai
  • PromptSmart

Automation & integration

5

Where the hours come back. n8n runs the recurring work, Apify scrapes what no API exposes, Workers host what needed a backend.

  • n8n Cloud
  • Apify
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • EmailJS
  • Custom MCP servers

Work OS & project management

10

I have migrated between most of these on live projects, which is the only way to learn what a migration actually costs.

  • Notion
  • Asana
  • ClickUp
  • Slack
  • Basecamp
  • Miro
  • Sunsama
  • Kondo
  • Raycast
  • Grammarly

CRM, sales & GTM

10

Outbound as a system rather than a mood: sourcing, enrichment, sequencing, and a CRM that syncs both ways with the work tools.

  • HubSpot
  • Pipedrive
  • Salesforce
  • Sales Navigator
  • Lemlist
  • Clay
  • Juicebox
  • Calendly
  • Buffer
  • Plotline

Finance, legal & people

6

Invoicing, payroll coordination, contracts and hiring — including a Spain-to-UK employment move with all four major EOR vendors compared on real numbers.

  • Holded
  • Qonto
  • PandaDoc
  • HomeRun
  • Deel
  • Remote

Design, video & media

12

Years inside video production, first as a co-founder and now running its operations — so I know which of these is a real bottleneck and which is a preference someone will defend loudly.

  • Figma
  • Adobe CC
  • Framer
  • Frame.io
  • Frame Set
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • Vimeo
  • Musicbed
  • Screen Studio
  • Veed
  • InVideo
  • Put.io

Security, IT & infrastructure

8

I wrote the company Data Protection & Security Playbook, so this list is a policy as much as a shopping basket.

  • 1Password
  • Applivery MDM
  • Usercentrics CMP
  • NordVPN
  • Microsoft 365
  • Google Workspace
  • Dropbox
  • GoDaddy

Vendor choice is rarely the hard part. Knowing which three you need, which two you already own without realising, and what the integration really costs in someone's week — that is what I get hired for.

05 — Built

Things that exist because I shipped them

I do not only advise on this work. I build with the same tools on my own time, which is where most of what I recommend gets tested first.

Solo product · Mac app

Shortcut Flow

shortcutflow.com

Keyboard shortcuts learned the Duolingo way. Designed, built and shipped alone with Claude Code — spaced-repetition engine, a companion Chrome extension, and a landing page that converts.

Tester

ReadyWhen

readywhen.ai

An AI operations app. I run it against real operations work and report what breaks — some of that feedback has made it into the product.

Teaching

AI in Creative Operations

Available as a workshop

A public masterclass for 20+ external professionals on putting AI into creative and operational work — designed and delivered end to end. Half of this job is explaining it to people who are not sold yet.

06 — Track record

Where this came from

Current

Head of Operations & AI Implementation

Camping TV — B2B video & strategy agency for SaaS scaleups, Barcelona

Joined as employee #8. Built the operating system that carried the company to 25 people on a four-day week, then led AI adoption from zero to the entire team. Own finance and admin operations with two direct reports, and client operations for the largest account. Led the Spain-to-UK employment transition, hiring for every role, and the GDPR playbook.

Earlier

Co-founder

Film production house — 7 people

Grew it to €300K in revenue. Learned what a badly scoped project costs you at 2 a.m., which is why my scoping documents are boring on purpose.

Before that

Data quality analysis

Samsung

Where the habit of arguing with numbers instead of opinions comes from.

Contact

Hiring for an operations, AI implementation or solutions role? Or sitting on a stack that does not talk to itself? Send one paragraph about the situation — I will tell you straight whether I am the right person for it.

filgawel@gmail.com