n8n and workflow automation
n8n is a workflow automation platform that connects apps and APIs and can run on your own servers. We use it for production automations: document processing, scheduling, lead capture, reporting and AI steps, with retries and alerting built in. Sprints take two to four days from kickoff to a working flow.
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- Cross-Industry Automation & AI WorkflowsFive Rapid Automation DeploymentsFive battle-tested mini case proofs demonstrating rapid-turnaround workflow automation, back-office workload cuts, and API orchestrations.80%Workload Cut
- Artificial Intelligence & Agentic SystemsA US Conversational AI VentureEngineering a production-grade multimodal conversational AI engine powered by n8n orchestration, LangChain, and GraphRAG knowledge graphs with Apache AGE and pgvector.$10KCommercial Sprint
- Aviation & Decentralized InfrastructureAn International Airport Aviation Infrastructure ProviderAI and blockchain-based airport passenger boarding and identity system engineered to reduce passenger waiting times by up to 80%.Up to -80%Airport Wait Time
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Terms explained
- n8nA workflow automation platform that connects apps and APIs through visual workflows and can be self-hosted on your own servers.
- Workflow automationUsing software to run repeatable business processes, such as approvals, data entry and notifications, without manual steps.
- WebhookAn HTTP request one system sends to another when an event happens, so the second system reacts at once instead of repeatedly checking.
- API integrationConnecting two systems so they exchange data through their APIs, instead of people copying data between them.
- RPA (robotic process automation)Software bots that imitate clicks and keystrokes in an application's screens. Useful when a system has no API, and more fragile than API-based automation.
- n8n queue modeA way of running n8n where a main instance hands executions to separate worker processes through Redis, so many workflows run in parallel and the system scales.
- Low-code and no-codeTools that build applications or automations mostly through visual interfaces instead of code. Fast for simple needs, with limits as logic or scale grows.
- ETLExtract, transform, load: pulling data from sources, cleaning and reshaping it, and loading it into a database or warehouse for reporting.
- IdempotencyA property of an operation that gives the same result if it runs more than once, which makes retries and repeated webhook deliveries safe.
- RedisAn in-memory data store used for caching, queues and fast lookups.