According to Forbes, digital agencies grew 32.1% between 2024 and 2025, with 89,912 agencies in business by the end of last year. Better yet – revenues support that growth. This means the numbers add up. And you, as somebody who’s interested in starting a new business, can see that the agency model could be key to your success.

You get 200+ emails a day. Half you never read, a few are urgent, some need a thoughtful reply. blockd can sort, summarize, and draft for you — in plain English.

Describe your inbox automation

Open blockd and type what you want in plain English. Example: "Every morning at 7am, summarize unread emails from the last 24 hours, flag anything from investors or customers, and post the summary to my #personal Slack." That's it — blockd picks the Gmail trigger, the filtering logic, the Slack integration, and the schedule.

No visual canvases. No drag-and-drop. You describe the outcome; blockd figures out the wiring.

5 inbox automations to set up today

Here are five prompts you can paste into blockd right now. Each takes about 30 seconds to configure and runs forever.

1. Morning digest — "Summarize all unread emails from the last 24 hours and email me the summary at 7am." 2. Investor watch — "Whenever I get an email from a partner at Sequoia, a16z, or Founders Fund, send a Telegram notification and mark it starred." 3. Auto-reply — "If someone emails asking for a meeting, reply with my Calendly link." 4. Newsletter filter — "Move newsletters to a Readwise inbox and unsubscribe from any I haven't opened in 3 months." 5. Receipt filer — "Whenever I get a receipt, save the PDF to Google Drive/Receipts/ and add a row to my expenses sheet."

Each of these takes under a minute to set up. They run on blockd's infrastructure 24/7 — no server, no cron, no babysitting.

Why plain English beats visual builders

Visual automation tools like Zapier and Make force you to think in their abstractions — zaps, modules, paths, iterators. blockd skips all of that. You describe the outcome. It handles the plumbing. When you need to change something, you edit the English sentence, not rewire nodes.

1. Choose a Niche

2. Know your audience

3. Choose the best agency software

4. Plan, Plan, Plan

5. Choose a strategy.

Baseline is, don't allow the vastness of current agencies, be flexible with your strategy, grind, temper your expectations and keep a positive attitude throughout.