About
Hi, I'm Merlyn.
Ten years of remote work taught me exactly where things break. Now I build the systems that close those gaps.
A lead that nobody followed up. A handover that lived in one person's head. I spent a decade in support, retention and quality assurance watching gaps like those cost real money.
I design and build GoHighLevel automations, CRM architecture and customer success operations for coaches, agencies and ecommerce brands. I have built for premium tier clients across coaching, therapy, publishing and travel, and run an independent client engagement end to end, from the quote and service agreement through to onboarding.
Two things run underneath all of it. I like watching other people win, which is why a decade of my career sat in customer success and not somewhere quieter. And I like things in their right place, which my family finds funny and my clients find useful.
So the work tends to look the same. Find the step everyone dreads, take it apart, label every piece, and hand it back running. A good system is a mixtape, not a jam session. Sequenced, labelled, and it plays the same way every time.
The tapes on this site are the ones I am proudest of. Side A is the work. Side B is the part nobody sees, the naming conventions and the handover docs, which is the part that decides whether any of it still works in six months.
Cozy on the outside, tech monster on the inside.
Credentials
Certified, and checkable
Every one of these has a verification link, so you do not have to take my word for it.
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HighLevel
Certified Admin
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What I actually do
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GoHighLevel systems
Pipelines, workflows, funnels, tags and custom fields, built and documented so a team can run them without me.
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Customer success and retention
Ticket queues, returns, cancellation saves and KPI reporting across ecommerce and SaaS.
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Operations management
Backend operations end to end, including teams, fulfillment and the processes that hold them together.
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AI assisted workflows
Claude and ChatGPT wired into support and documentation, so the busywork stops eating the day.
Daily drivers
Tools and systems I work in
Some of these I am in every day, some I have run for clients and agencies. All of them I can pick up without a ramp.
CRM and automation
GoHighLevel
Zoho CRM
Zapier
Make
Unito
Airtable
ManyChat
Project and time
ClickUp
Notion
Trello
Asana
SmartSuite
Everhour
Clockify
Support desk
Zoho Desk
Front
eBay Seller Hub
Guru
QuestionScout
Comms
Slack
Zulip
Loom
Calendly
Google Workspace
Zoom
Sites, funnels and courses
WordPress
Elementor
Kajabi
ThriveCart
LearnDash
BuddyBoss
ScoreApp
Build and mapping
GitHub
VS Code
Supabase
Miro
Puzzle
AI and content
Claude
ChatGPT
Otter.ai
Descript
Canva
Wistia
Hosting and security
SiteGround
Namecheap
Cloudflare
1Password
Get in touch
Let's build your backend
Open to contract builds and to operations roles.
What happens next
- 01A 30 minute call. You walk me through where things break.
- 02I come back with what I would build, in what order, and what it costs.
- 03You decide. No retainer to start.
Part of Opsresso, my operations and automation studio.