r/AiAutomations: rules, karma requirements and posting culture

Who posts here

Many posters are weeks or months into automation work and say so. Questions like which free tools to start with, or how to tell a good automation from a bad one, get friendly answers and not a telling off. The experienced freelancers are in the comments, and they talk about hosting, compliance and silent failures without stopping to explain the terms.

• People starting an automation agency who have not landed a first client yet, or have just landed one.
• Freelancers and solo developers showing a workflow they built for a client or for themselves.
• Business owners looking to hire someone to automate their operations or outreach.
• Sales people and builders looking for the other half of a partnership, usually on commission or a revenue split.
• Founders posting about their own automation tool.

Karma and account requirements

What it takes to get a post through in r/AiAutomations.

What you can post

What happens to a new post

Where the most recent posts ended up. Sample size: 400.

• Stayed up76%
• Removed by Reddit's filters23%
• Removed by moderators<1%
• Deleted by the author<1%

Reddit counts a removal by the subreddit's own AutoModerator rules as a moderator removal, so that share is not all human. Held by AutoModerator means the post is waiting in the mod queue.

What happened when we posted here

We have posted here ourselves. This is how our own posts and comments fared.

Stayed up

100%

Removed by Reddit's filters

0%

Removed by moderators

0%

Period

November 2025 to August 2026

The culture

r/AiAutomations has about 81,000 members and close to 47 new posts a day. It runs with almost no visible moderation. There are no posted rules and moderators removed well under 1% of posts in our sample. What stays up is a mix: build write-ups, agency questions, hiring requests, partner searches, tool launches and bare links with no text.

The posts people actually respond to are about the business of automation, not the technology. Landing a first client, what a local business will really pay per month, whether the field is already crowded, how to find clients without cold calling. Hiring and looking for a specialist posts also pull dozens of comments, because half the room is looking for work.

The recurring argument is hype versus boring work. Several of the best received posts say the useful automations are dull ones: lead follow-up, appointment reminders, call notes. There is open suspicion that the agency success stories seen elsewhere exist mostly to sell courses, and people ask for real numbers before they believe a claim.

What lands

• An honest account of getting a first paying client, with the price, the type of business and what the system does.
• A first workflow shown as a screenshot with the stack and features listed. Beginners get encouragement here.
• Blunt questions about whether the agency model works, asked by someone who doubts it. These draw the most comments.
• Posts from a business owner or agency that needs to hire. They get flooded with replies.
• Lessons from doing the work for a while: what broke, what clients really wanted, why the boring jobs pay.

What gets removed or ignored

• Almost nothing is removed by moderators. Only a fraction of one percent of posts in our sample went that way, and the one example we have shows no content.
• Reddit's own filters are what catch posts here, at roughly 23%. The subreddit publishes nothing about why, and our sample does not show the cause.
• There are no rules or AutoModerator messages to check a post against, so a removal comes with no explanation.

The unwritten rules

• Staying up is not the same as being read. The median post gets one comment, and link-only posts and one-line tool plugs sit with none.
• Give numbers. What you charge, what it costs you to run, how long it took. Comments ask for them straight away when they are missing.
• Expect pitches in your replies. A hiring or help-wanted post draws a queue of freelancers listing their past clients.
• Hashtags, emoji bullet lists and copy pasted social captions mark a post as cross-posted marketing. They stay up and get ignored.
• The room is sceptical of course sellers and paid agency programmes. If you ask about one, expect to be told to demand references and real figures.

Self-promotion

There is no self-promotion rule, because there are no published rules. In practice promotion is everywhere: tool launches with links, agencies offering revenue share for referrals, and free masterclass links all stay up. The cost is attention, not removal. The self-promotional posts that get replies are the ones that describe the build or the deal in detail and read as a story from the work. A bare link or a pitch with a signup link gets little or nothing.

How people write here

Typical post length

125 words

Typical title length

12 words

Titles phrased as a question

23%

Typical comment length

25 words

Comments that include a link

7%

Top keywords

The words and phrases that show up far more often here than in other communities, from recent posts in r/AiAutomations.

• automation 143 posts
• ai automation 53 posts
• workflow 71 posts
• automations 43 posts
• n8n 35 posts
• automated 46 posts
• workflows 44 posts
• automate 36 posts
• automating 26 posts
• client 42 posts
• crm 28 posts
• tools 49 posts
• business 57 posts
• manual 27 posts
• process 41 posts
• data 50 posts
• human 30 posts
• simple 38 posts
• agent 41 posts
• systems 30 posts
• lead 29 posts
• part 49 posts
• agents 34 posts
• boring 20 posts
• automation agency 10 posts
• agency 25 posts
• zapier 12 posts
• system 35 posts
• repetitive 16 posts
• businesses 26 posts
• hand 24 posts
• clients 25 posts
• manually 22 posts
• ai automations 8 posts
• sheet 15 posts
• leads 21 posts
• customer 28 posts
• apis 16 posts
• email 30 posts
• quietly 15 posts

Common questions