Rafael Bautista. AI engineer and automation specialist, backed by ten years of design, web, video and SEO delivered by hand.
A large share of what I was paid for was repetitive.
The same reports, the same resizes, the same audits, the same follow-ups.
Skilled work, but the kind of skilled work that follows rules.
That is exactly the shape of job an agent can hold.
Three shapes of work, each with a written scope before anything runs. Every line states what you actually receive.
Best for: owners losing hours a week to work that follows rules but still needs judgement.
Best for: teams copying data between systems by hand, or chasing the same follow-ups weekly.
Best for: teams told to use AI with no clear idea where it pays back.
Admin support, web development, SEO, video, design and social are still on the menu. They sit behind the agents now, not in front of them.
Real systems, in production for real clients. Names stay off the page; the people I work with read it too. Every one of these is something I can walk you through on a call.
Agency second brain
For an agency I work with: an Obsidian vault built from every procedure and every recorded call, a cortex router that knows which note answers which question, and a 3D "Neural Brain" Next.js app where anyone on the team asks in plain language. Hybrid keyword and semantic retrieval, so the answer cites the note it came from.
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Client portal
A Next.js 15 portal on top of ClickUp for the same agency: per-client tasks, requests, messages, and GA4 and Search Console metrics on one screen.
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Transcript to website
The call transcript triggers the pipeline, Claude extracts the brief, Base44 or Lovable builds the first cut, an SOP compliance check reviews it, WordPress takes the hand-off and Gmail delivers it. All wired in n8n.
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n8n foundations
A LinkedIn DM system, a short-form video engine, a founder email digest and SEO blog automation, each with error handling and alerting, so a silent failure never becomes a silent loss.
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Multi-site control panel
A WordPress and Elementor control panel over MCP: switch site, clone a page from any URL, run webcare reports, generate schema. Across twelve or more client sites without opening a dashboard.
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Ads agents
Tool-use agents over both ad platforms with three-tier approval gates and budget pacing alerts, so the agent proposes and a person approves before money moves.
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SEO audit agent
Workflows plus Python tools that crawl, score and write the sprint plan. The report says what to fix first and why, with the numbers to check it against.
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Social media, measured
Up 145 percent month over month on 12 percent fewer posts, for a US consulting founder. Content, graphics, reels, scheduling and the monthly report, all on retainer.
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Voice and video agents
The voice agent handles onboarding conversations end to end. The editing agent runs on HyperFrames and video-use: face-tracked crops, filler removal, overlays, 9:16 exports.
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The hands-on decade came first: graphic design, video editing, SEO and web builds for more than 50 businesses. Best Graphic Designer and Best Video Editor of my internship cohort, a national-level finish in a website design competition.
Knowing exactly how the work is done by hand is the reason I can tell when an agent is quietly producing rubbish, which is the part most AI builds get wrong.
I go by Rafael, or Peter to most of my US clients. I work from Tuy, Batangas, on US, Australian and Philippine hours, and I have spent three years and more serving clients in the US, UK, Australia and the Philippines. The hands-on decade came first. Now I build the AI agents and automations that hold those same jobs at scale, and I still review the work that goes out.
I run this as stewardship: honest numbers, no overselling, and a straight answer when something is not a fit. If a ten-line rule would fix your problem more cheaply than an agent, I will tell you.
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BS Agribusiness Management and Entrepreneurship, UP Los Baños, Cum Laude, 2024. Best Graphic Designer and Best Video Editor of my internship cohort. National-level finish in a website design competition.
Websites, SEO programs and ad systems built for clients across the US, Canada and Australia. Named, with the problem and the work stated plainly. Every one started with a business that could already sell but could not be found, or could be found but could not convert.
Designed and built the site on WordPress and Elementor, optimized Core Web Vitals and on-page SEO, set up the Google Business Profile, and ran a blog SEO program with local internal linking and a pillar structure. A fast, conversion-focused site built to capture Greater Toronto organizing searches.
Visit chaosmeetsorder.com
A high-impact WordPress and Elementor site: bold hero, clear booking calls to action, trust signals covering years of experience, event types and guest capacity, plus services, pricing and reviews. A booking site positioned to turn wedding searches into booked events.
Visit djgrandrapids.com
Built with a quote-request form above the fold, service pages written for the searches customers actually type, and on-page SEO throughout. Quoting built into the primary path rather than buried on a contact page.
Built and now manage the website, on-page and local SEO, the Google Business Profile with a steady stream of 5-star reviews, and Google Ads. A steady lead-generation engine driving inbound print requests.
"Automation work freed up 20+ hours a week across the operations team."
"Marketing costs dropped ~60% with better results after the switch to Zeafar."
"Leads tripled within 3 months of bringing Zeafar in to handle SEO and social."
"Consolidating from 4 freelancers to one Zeafar team cut our turnaround in half."
It runs against your real tools, inside the guardrails we wrote down.
A weekly summary of what was handled and what still needs you. Nothing gets built that you have not seen.
Twenty minutes. You describe the bottleneck, I tell you honestly whether I can move it and roughly what that costs. If the answer is no, you get it on the call rather than three days later in a proposal.
A written scope: what gets built, in what order, what it costs, and what you will see at the end of each week. Nothing starts until you have read it.
I build, you review weekly, it ships. You get the files, the accounts and the documentation, so nothing stays hostage to me staying involved.
No hidden fees and no long-term lock-ins. Monthly plans in pesos, SEO retainers and one-time builds in US dollars. The full table is on the pricing page.
Saying this up front saves us both a call. I do not do black-hat SEO, bought links, or anything else that puts a domain at risk for a short-term ranking. I do not write fake reviews or invent testimonials. I do not accept work where the deadline only holds if nothing goes wrong. And I will not sell you an AI agent for a job that a ten-line rule or one afternoon of training would fix more cheaply.
Monthly plans start at ₱15,000 and are listed in full on the pricing page, with a la carte add-ons for one-off needs. Fixed-scope builds are quoted up front so you know the number before work starts.
Within one business day, every time. If a project is not a fit, you get that answer in the same window rather than silence.
Yes. I am based in Batangas and work with clients worldwide, mostly across North America, Australia and Europe. See the case studies for named examples in Canada, the US and Australia. Everything runs remotely, on hours that overlap your timezone rather than mine.
You do. Files, accounts, source projects and documentation are handed over. Nothing is built to keep you dependent on me being available.
Usually. Half-finished sites, abandoned automations and inherited SEO messes are normal. I audit first and tell you honestly whether repairing costs less than rebuilding, which is not always the answer people expect.
For parts of it, openly. AI drafts, sorts and automates the repetitive middle; people make the decisions and check the output. What I do not do is ship generated work unreviewed and bill it as craft.
The detail sits on web development services, graphic design services and social media management.
Start with white label SEO, the SEO reseller program or white label web design and development.
If I can build something that removes it, I will say so and what it takes. If I cannot, I will say that too.
