Export Settings Check

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When a set is marked ready, check each file in the delivery folder against the agreed size, color space, and file type, then email me the mismatch list before anything is packed.

This is the whole automation. Run it as it is, or change any word, including the tools it names.

Wrong-sized exports caught before sending
Color space recorded per delivery
One export recipe per client

How it runs

1. Starts
When a set is marked ready to export
2. Reads
the delivery folder
3. Delivers to
Email
4. You decide
Approve each time, or let the steps you trust run. Your choice.

Why photographers and video teams set this up

Every retoucher reads the brief differently, so 200 product shots arrive in six different whites. Proofs look right on a bright laptop and wrong in print, and the correction gets made twice.

See the whole job: RAW to Delivery Color

Use it as is. Or make it yours.

Edit it the way you would edit a note to a colleague. It follows the new version from the next run.

Change when it runs
Move it to another day or time, or start it when something arrives, like a new email.
Add your own rules
Limits, exceptions and what good looks like go in the same file, in plain words.
Decide what waits for you
Mark the steps that need your OK, and let the rest run.

You stay in charge.
At every step.

It checks and files. Every creative call stays yours.

It never deletes on its own
It checks, lists and files. Deleting or formatting anything waits for your OK.
Undo a move you don't want
Every step is recorded, and files it moved or renamed can be put back.
Your drives stay yours
It works on the folders you point it at, on your computer. Nothing is uploaded to a new library.

Export Settings Check

Approve before it sends the email?

ReviewApprove

Before you download.

Where does it run?: On your Mac or Windows computer, in the background. It keeps working after you close its window, and only reaches the folders and apps you connect for each automation.
How does it connect to our CRM and other tools?: Through each app's own connection where it offers one, signed in once by you, or by using the app in a browser the way you would. Each automation gets only the connections you give it, and the tools a page names are examples you can swap for your own.
Does it run when my computer is asleep?: It keeps your computer awake while a job runs and just before a scheduled one. While the computer is closed or off, nothing runs; when it wakes, it checks the inbox, calendar and other sources it watches for anything that arrived meanwhile.
How does my team use it?: Each person who runs automations installs the app. Keep a project in a shared folder, such as Google Drive or a network drive, and teammates can open it and follow every run, while one person owns it and runs it.
Do I need anyone technical to set it up?: No. Download the app, add an automation in plain words, and connect only what that job needs. Nothing runs until you switch it on.

Already have tools for this? Here is the difference.

Instead ofGood atWhere it stops

Presets and actions in your editor

Repeating the same edit across many files.

They can't check a delivery against an approval or tell you a card didn't copy.

Flowchart automation tools

Moving data between cloud apps.

They rarely reach local drives, and every exception becomes another branch.

Doing it by hand

Knowing exactly what happened.

It is the part of the job that waits until midnight.

AUTOMATE.md

Your routine, written in plain words. It runs on its own, follows your rules, handles the exceptions a flowchart can't, and asks you when it matters. The file stays yours, whichever AI model runs it.

Other setups for the same job.

Reference Frame Pick

When a product set is imported, find the frame holding the ColorChecker card closest to the target, set it as the reference, and post the file name so the rest of the set follows it.

When a product set is imported

Related workflows

Culling and Retouch Queue

Turn a finished shoot into one ordered list of the frames worth retouching, with the rest set aside on purpose.

3 automations

Client Delivery Packaging

Build a download package that names every file, states the usage terms, and stops at a size the client can actually receive.

3 automations

Photo tagging

Puts reviewed keywords on a shoot as it lands, so a decade-old library is findable by the words a client actually says out loud.

2 automations

Start with one job.
Make it your own.

macOS — coming soon

1
Get the app
It runs on your computer, next to your files.
2
Add the automation
Paste the instructions into the app, or save them as a file next to your work.
3
Try it, then turn it on
Run it once and check the result. It only runs on its own once you switch it on.