n8n · Self-hosted · Source-owned · est. 2014

Automation you actually own.

Zapier charges you by the step. Make.com charges you by the operation. n8n is open-source, self-hosted, and once we build your workflows they run forever — on your VPC, with your keys, with no per-seat or per-execution meter. We've built hundreds of them.

✓ Self-hosted · your VPC · your keys✓ No per-step or per-execution fees✓ 400+ native integrations · plus custom✓ AI agents wired into the graph
Best fit

Teams with a real product or internal tool to ship.

  • New products that need design, build, and launch in one motion.
  • Internal tools or CRMs replacing spreadsheet-and-Slack chaos.
  • Founders who want one team owning the outcome, not just tickets.
Not a fit

Probably not us if this is just hourly-staff shopping.

  • Cheapest-rate procurement.
  • Dev-only staff augmentation on greenfield product work.
  • Trying to polish a broken process without changing the workflow.
On the first call

You get the likely stack, shape, and next step.

  • What to build first and what can wait.
  • How we’d structure the stack and delivery.
  • A straight answer on fit, timeline, and budget shape.
What we build

Workflows that retire your manual ops.

Anything your team repeats more than 10 times a week is a workflow. We find them, build them, monitor them.

01

Lead-to-CRM workflows

Form / chat / ad click → enriched → scored → routed to the right AE in under 30 seconds. The lead never falls through the cracks.

02

AI agents in the graph

n8n nodes that call GPT-5 / Claude mid-workflow — draft emails, summarize conversations, classify tickets, translate content. Humans approve where it matters.

03

System-to-system sync

Stripe → QuickBooks, HubSpot → Slack, Shopify → ERP, Airtable → Notion. Bidirectional, dedupe-safe, retry-on-failure. The boring glue that makes the business run.

04

Internal Slack bots

Slash commands, approval flows, daily standups, alert routing. Your team talks to the system in Slack — no extra apps, no extra logins.

How we work

Live in 1–3 weeks. Per workflow.

Small scope, fast ship. Most clients start with 2–3 critical workflows, see the value, then expand.

01

Audit

Day 1–2. We sit with your team for an hour, list every repetitive task, and rank them by hours-saved × risk-of-human-error. That list becomes the backlog.

02

Infra

Day 2–3. n8n instance deployed to your cloud (AWS / GCP / Azure / your VPS), hardened, monitored, backed up. You get the admin keys.

03

First workflow

Week 1. Highest-ROI workflow built, tested end-to-end on real data, deployed with feature flag. You watch it run before you trust it.

04

Graduate humans

Week 2. Team trained on when to intervene and when to let the bot run. Error-handling rules, escalation paths, Slack alerts wired.

05

Expand

Weeks 3+. Next workflows built on the same infra. Every new workflow gets cheaper because the foundation is already there.

06

Hand-off or stay

Documentation in your wiki, runbook in your repo. Retainer for new workflows, or you take the keys and run it in-house.

Our stack

Tools we ship with — every automation project.

Platform
n8n (self-hosted)DockerPostgresRedis
AI · agents
GPT-5ClaudeGeminiVector searchEmbeddings
Integrations
HubSpotSalesforceStripeShopifyGmailSlackNotionAirtable
Infra
AWSGCPAzureHetznerVercelSupabase
Monitoring
SentryGrafanaSlack alertsRun logsRetry policies
Pricing

Per workflow or per month. You own it either way.

We don't charge per execution — we charge to build it well once. Infrastructure runs on your cloud bill (usually $20–$80/mo for n8n itself).

Single workflow · scoped from $1.8k
Workflow bundle · 3–5 related from $6k
Full automation suite · 10+ workflows from $18k
Monthly retainer · new + maintenance from $2k/mo
Every workflow includes documentation, Sentry monitoring, Slack alerts, and a runbook. Your team can edit the nodes; we recommend retainer if you want new scenarios shipping monthly.
Questions worth asking

The short version.

Why n8n instead of Zapier / Make.com?

Two reasons: cost and control. Zapier and Make charge per step / per operation — we've seen clients paying $3–8k/month once workflows compound. n8n is free and open-source, hosted on your cloud for $20–$80/month regardless of volume. Plus you can edit the code, add custom nodes, and run it inside your VPC for security.

Can n8n do everything Zapier does?

Almost everything, plus things Zapier can't — custom code nodes (JavaScript / Python), self-hosted LLM calls, arbitrary webhooks, any database. 400+ integrations native, plus the ability to build your own. If an integration doesn't exist, we build it; no third-party fees.

What about maintenance and updates?

Two paths. Retainer ($2k–$8k/mo) for new workflows, version updates, incident response. Or we hand you docs and Sentry alerts, you run it in-house. Our own internal 47-workflow system needs ~2hrs/month of attention — not a full-time job.

How do we know it works in production?

Every workflow ships with: Sentry error tracking, Slack alerts on failure, retry policies, execution logs retained for 30 days, and a feature flag to disable instantly if something goes wrong. We test on shadow traffic for a week before full rollout.

Can we start with just one workflow?

Yes — most clients do. We recommend starting with the workflow that's costing you the most hours right now, proving the value, then expanding. First workflow is typically $1.8–3k, shipped in 5–10 days.

Do we need an engineering team to run it?

No. n8n has a visual editor that non-engineers can use for simple edits. For the complex stuff (error handling, new integrations, custom nodes), our retainer or your engineers handle it. We write docs for the 95% your ops team can do themselves.

Ready to stop doing manual ops?

Let's map your workflows on a call.

30 minutes. We walk through your team's weekly routine, flag the 3–5 highest-ROI workflows, and quote each one. You pick which to start with.