About This Automation
Compliance deadline tracking requires manual spreadsheet scanning, status collection, and multi-channel alerts every morning. Inconsistent data formats, delayed updates, and duplicate messaging create bottlenecks and missed deadlines.
Automation monitors deadlines and job progress continuously, consolidates status updates from email and messaging, and delivers unified alerts to the team. Deadlines are never missed and team members stay informed without manual data entry.
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How The Automation Works
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The automation platform monitors the master deadline spreadsheet for new rows or changes to existing dates. It checks every morning at 7 AM and whenever a deadline is updated.
The automation analyzes the spreadsheet data and identifies all deadlines falling within the next 14 days. It cross-references the job status spreadsheet to pull current progress information.
The automation retrieves the latest job status from the job tracking spreadsheet, including completion percentage, assigned owner, and last update date.
The automation branches based on urgency. Deadlines within 7 days trigger immediate alerts. Deadlines between 7 and 14 days trigger a daily summary.
For deadlines within 7 days, the automation sends an immediate message to the responsible team member with the deadline date, job status, and any blockers.
The automation creates or updates a event for the deadline, sets a reminder for 3 days before, and adds the responsible team member as an attendee.
When a team member updates job status or email, the automation logs the update with a timestamp, owner, and status change. This keeps the single source of truth current.
Every morning at 7 AM, the automation sends a summary email to the operations manager listing all deadlines due in the next 14 days, sorted by urgency, with current job status and owner.
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Google Sheets
Gmail
Google Calendar
Airtable
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