n8n automations

Two things. Hours that go back to your team, which is what everyone expects, and something you value more once it happens, which is the process no longer depending on someone remembering. Most of the mistakes that cost money are not technical failures, they are a step nobody did that day.

Almost any process that repeats and follows rules. These are the ones I build most often.

• Customer support and answers that are always the same.
• Lead capture and follow up, so none of them goes cold.
• Invoices, delivery notes and admin paperwork.
• Internal reports and alerts someone prepares by hand today.
• Moving data between your CRM, your ERP and your spreadsheets.
• Reminders and confirmations to customers.

I do not hand you a tool and wish you luck. I hand you the process running, plus what it takes to keep it running without me.

• The flow in production, doing the actual work.
• The integrations with the tools you already use.
• Alerts to a specific person on your team if something fails.
• Documentation of what each piece does and what it depends on.
• Training for your team to use it and make simple changes.

Cost and ownership. Zapier and Make charge per task, so the bill goes up right when the process starts working well. With n8n the cost is fixed and what gets built is yours, with the code and the credentials in your company name. If we ever stop working together, you take it with you and it keeps running.

It depends on how many processes, how many tools have to talk to each other and how critical it is. Before quoting anything I run a free diagnosis to see what is worth automating and what it would actually save, because some processes do not pay off and I would rather tell you first. The quote always comes with two separate figures, what it costs to build once and what it costs to maintain each month, plus servers and APIs, which are billed separately and I tell you up front.

The first process is usually in production within one or two weeks. I always start with the lowest risk one, not the one touching invoicing, so you see how I work before I go near anything painful. From there we go in batches, and each batch is faster than the last because the connections are already in place.

No, and neither does your team. I design, build and deploy. Your team sees the result, not the tool, and the normal outcome is that the work simply stops showing up on their list. If someone wants to change a message or add a recipient, I teach them how without touching anything delicate.

It will happen at some point, because APIs change and credentials expire. The difference is finding out before your customer does. Everything I build has retries, a record of what happened and an alert to a specific person when something fails. From there you can fix it yourself or leave it on a monthly maintenance plan, whichever you prefer.