Automations
The work that gets done while you look at something else.
This is not a diagram of what could be automated: it is a process running, with its own data, its own timing, and what happens when something doesn't add up.
I've seen spreadsheets you people wouldn't believe.(Blade Runner, 1982)
Example — fictional data
Arrives
Invoice 2026-0431 · €1,284.50
Reads and compares
Order P-2211 · €1,188.50
Compares
Difference: €96.00
Files
Saved and reconciled
Flags
Doesn't match — needs a look
Matches → files itself
Doesn't match → flags a person
Four processes nobody does by hand anymore
Paperwork that files itself
214 invoices and delivery notes a month arrive by email, get read, checked against the order and filed. Only the 11 that don't match reach a person; before, all 214 were reviewed one by one.
The report that shows up by itself
Every Monday at 07:00, an email pulls together three different sources — the dashboard, the till, the shift log — into one summary. Before, a person built it by copying from all three screens.
Two programs that talk to each other
380 records a month move from one system to the other without anyone typing them twice: today that number is 0. Before, each one was written first in one place and then, by hand, in the other.
Flags when something goes out of range
Six rules watch on their own — stock, unpaid invoices, a machine stopped too long. They flag 9 times a month, 1 of which wasn't needed: what matters isn't that it flags, it's that it's almost never wrong.
What doing it by hand costs
In this shop, 6 h 20 min a week went into three tasks that none of them required deciding anything: copying from one place to another, hunting for the missing figure, and sending the same email every time.
- Copying from one place to another — 3 h
- Hunting for the missing figure — 2 h
- Sending the same email — 1 h 20 min
How it gets built
The process gets watched
A whole morning watching how it is done today, with whoever does it. What looks like a detail that doesn't matter is usually the part that breaks the automation if it gets skipped.
It gets built on what you already use
The flow is built with n8n and tools of the same kind, on top of your email, your ERP or your spreadsheet — not on a new program you have to learn.
It gets left watched
If the flow fails, it flags it; it doesn't go quiet and stop working in silence. A process nobody is watching is no longer trustworthy, however well it worked one day.
What doesn't get automated
The decision that needs judgement
Approving a discount outside the normal range, deciding who gets priority: a person still decides that. The flow puts the data in front of them already sorted, it doesn't decide in their place.
The exception that changes every time
If the reason something comes out different changes every week, automating it means chasing a moving target. The process gets settled first; then it gets automated.
What hasn't been decided yet
Automating a process the company is still changing means building on something that is going to move. It waits until the process settles down.
Questions
- How much does it cost, and how long does it take?
- There is no price list on this page, and that isn't a gap: every automation is a different process and a different challenge, and giving a figure without having looked at it would mean making it up. One can be given as soon as the process is watched for a morning.
- What if the flow fails?
- It flags it. A flow that goes quiet when it fails is worse than not having one, because nobody finds out it stopped working.
- Where does this run, and does it lock me into one tool?
- It is built on n8n and tools of the same kind, which talk to whatever you already use. It isn't a closed proprietary system: if you want to move it tomorrow, the flow can be taken with you.
- Does my data leave my company?
- The flow connects your own programs directly to each other, or to whatever destination you name — an email, your ERP, your spreadsheet. There is no middle step keeping copies you don't need.
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