The Freelancer's Automation Stack Problem You're billing by the hour, which means every hour spent on admin, follow-ups, invoicing, and proposal formatting is an hour you're not earning. Yet most freelance guides jump straight to "use Notion" and leave you to wire everything together yourself. This is the actual automation stack I use — built on Make.com, Zapier, and a handful of AI prompts. Total cost: under €50 in tools (some are free tiers). Setup time: one weekend. Return: roughly 8–10 hours/week back. The Stack 1. Lead Capture → CRM (Free tier: Make.com + Airtable) New inquiry comes in via contact form or email. Make.com catches it via webhook or Gmail watch trigger, extracts the key fields (name, company, what they need, budget hint), and pushes a structured row into Airtable. No more copy-pasting from email. No more "wait, when did they reach out?" The Make.com scenario takes about 20 minutes to build if you're using a pre-built template.…