Is Hamza Automates legit? The proof you can check yourself

All of these are public. A browser and ten minutes covers the whole list.

HighLevel runs its awards and its LevelUp conference, and I can't edit either page. On its SaaSpreneur lists, my agency Hexona Systems is Platinum in 2024 and Diamond in 2025 and 2026. HighLevel counts those tiers in client sub-accounts: Platinum is a minimum of 500 and Diamond a minimum of 1,000. Its awards page says every award is "earned, not entered" and that its team reviews eligibility using performance data.

My name is also on HighLevel's Affilionaire lists for 2024, 2025 and 2026. That's its affiliate award, given for referrals that stay on the platform, which is the same affiliate relationship I disclose further down.

HighLevel listed me as a speaker at LevelUp 2026 ("Hamza Baig, Founder, Hexona Systems"). Some speakers on that page carry a Sponsored Session badge. Mine doesn't. HighLevel describes me on that page like this, word for word, read on Nov 2, 2026: "Hamza Baig is the founder of Hexona Systems, a white-label platform built on HighLevel that powers over 1,000 agencies, and of The Automation Institute, where he's taught 45,000+ students to build agencies with AI. He won the Platinum SaaSPRENEUR Award in 2024 and the Diamond SaaSPRENEUR Award in 2025." That's HighLevel's wording, on HighLevel's site.

How to check: open levelup.gohighlevel.com/awards, scroll to the 2026 winners, click the Diamond tier tab and look for Hexona Systems, then open the Affilionaire tab and look for Hamza Baig. The 2024 list is on awards.gohighlevel.com. For the talk, open levelup.gohighlevel.com/speakers and find my card. More on what each tier means is on GoHighLevel awards explained.

A lot of people got into AI agencies after ChatGPT launched on November 30, 2022. I found HighLevel through a TikTok in 2021 and started Hexona Systems in early 2022. The domain, hexonasystems.com, was registered on June 19, 2022.

My YouTube channel started on September 25, 2022. The first uploads, on September 26 and 27, 2022, were GoHighLevel automations for local businesses, a restaurant setup and contractor booking. Honestly they're rough, but they're there, two months before ChatGPT existed.

How to check: run a WHOIS or RDAP lookup on hexonasystems.com and read the registration date. Then open youtube.com/@hamza_automates, go to Videos, sort by Oldest and look at the dates on the first few uploads.

These are shows and organisations that invited me on. I didn't write their pages, and I didn't pick the questions:

Conversion Zoo, August 2024: conversionzoo.com/ai-automation-agency-hamza-baig. RepStack, November 2024: youtube.com/watch?v=PzA5tg79hjU. CanadianSME Small Business Podcast, December 2024: youtube.com/watch?v=gnJ2Bbpc-iI. Made in the Mist from the Niagara Falls Innovation Hub, January 2025: nfinnovationhub.ca/revolutionizing-ai-education-and-automation. NIC Faisalabad, a LinkedIn Live, June 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=MiTpfMk5nqw. The Sahas Chopra Show, October 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=7jIqAOALp4Q (that episode's title uses a revenue number, which I'm not repeating here). RepStack's HighLevel Speaker Series, October 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=Y7U2jLLA4-E.

To be upfront: if you search my name you'll also find press releases and contributor posts. Press releases are paid for and written by the person in them, then syndicated to big news sites, and some contributor sections let anyone pay to publish. Those are my own words on someone else's domain, so don't count them as independent, and I don't use them as proof on this page. Interviews count for more, though I still controlled my own answers. HighLevel's lists count the most, because I can't touch them.

How to check: open any of the links above. To tell a press release from an article, look for a wire service credit (like ACCESS Newswire or PR Newswire), a /press-release/ path in the URL, or a Sponsored or Contributor label. I wrote a longer guide on this at Choosing an AI agency coach.

I recorded a podcast with Tai Lopez. I worked with 10X and Cardone Ventures, Grant Cardone's companies, including time at 10X HQ in Scottsdale with Brandon Dawson, CEO of Cardone Ventures. And I hosted the AI Automations Workshop in School of Mentors, the School of Hard Knocks community. I've also met Neil Patel at a HighLevel event and visited Acquisition.com HQ, Alex Hormozi's company. The photos are on my About page.

I'm wording that carefully on purpose. It was the companies, not Grant Cardone personally, and I'd rather undersell this than have you find out it was smaller than it sounded.

How to check: the photos from each of these are on my About page. These are my own statements backed by my photos, so weigh them below the HighLevel records above.

Most "is this guy a scam" questions come from the same tactics, so here's what you won't find on this hub.

No income screenshots and no promised results. An agency is client work: sales calls, builds, support and follow-ups. Your results depend on your niche, your offer and how much outreach you actually do, and I can't promise any of that for you.

No fake dollar "values" on my bonus. Lots of bonus stacks say they're worth some five-figure number nobody has ever paid. Mine is a list of what you get, explained on My bonus.

The affiliate commission is disclosed. If you sign up for HighLevel through my link, HighLevel pays me, and I say so next to every trial button on this hub.

The teaching is free to try. My Skool community, skool.com/automate, is free and had 48.8k members on Nov 2, 2026. Go in, follow a build, and decide if I'm worth listening to before you spend anything.

How to check: scroll this hub and my YouTube descriptions for the disclosure, and join the Skool group. It costs nothing.

Some of my YouTube titles use big numbers. That's how YouTube works, and I get why it makes people suspicious. Judge me by the builds inside the videos and ignore any number you can't verify, mine included.

Results vary a lot. Two people can follow the same tutorial and get completely different outcomes depending on the work they put in after. Anyone who tells you otherwise, me included, should get side-eye.

I earn when you sign up for HighLevel through my link, and I get paid when people learn from me through Automation Institute. So I'm not a neutral reviewer of HighLevel. I run my agency on it and I think it's the right tool, but factor the commission in, and compare it with other options on GoHighLevel alternatives if you want a second view.

The Skool sign-up form offers a free intro call. Treat that like any coach's call: go in knowing what you want, and don't buy anything on the spot because you feel rushed.

The quickest way to reach me and my team is the free Skool community at skool.com/automate. You can also comment on any video at youtube.com/@hamza_automates, and my agency's site is hexonasystems.com.

If something on this page is wrong or out of date, tell me there and I'll fix it and update the date at the top. My full background, with photos and every source, is on my About page.