Automation with n8n

Overview

We replace recurring tasks with flows you can read and own. The first pass maps sources, sinks, secrets, and failure modes. From there we design workflows in n8n with clear triggers and explicit retries. Every node has a comment and a reason to exist. We log what matters and ignore noise. If a step fails you see the why and the payload that caused it. We treat third party APIs as unreliable friends. Timeouts, backoff, and idempotency are baked in. For data safety we keep secrets out of the flows and rotate them on a schedule. Deployment is boring by choice. We either use a managed n8n instance with role controls or a hardened container with minimal surface. Handover is a runbook, not a lecture. You can pause, resume, and modify without breaking the whole chain. The business effect is simple. Fewer manual hours. Faster response. Better records. When you want to change direction we edit the flow and move on. No six week rebuild. No agency lock. Just a clean system that does the work and tells you what it did.