Why I stopped handing my GHL login to VAs and AI tools
Ran an agency managing GoHighLevel accounts for a dozen clients. Every time I wanted an AI to audit a funnel or bulk-edit a workflow, I hit the same wall: share the login, generate an API key, or babysit a headless browser script that broke every time GHL shipped a UI update.
None of those options felt right. Shared logins mean shared blast radius. API keys don't cover half of what the GHL UI can actually do. And Playwright/headless setups are brittle — they don't have YOUR session, cookies, or 2FA state.
The fix ended up being simpler than I expected: capture the auth session I already have in my own browser, and expose it locally to an agent through a small bridge server. No credential sharing, no API key hunting. My Claude setup now reads funnels, checks workflow configs, and flags issues across client accounts — and every click/type action prompts me for approval the first time it touches a new site.
If you're running an agency and doing this manually across dozens of client accounts, you're leaving hours on the table every week. Happy to share more about the setup if anyone's curious.