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Teardowns, not thought leadership fog
Every post names the mechanism, the trade-offs, and the economics in plain numbers.
2026-08-06 · 7 min
How we’d automate invoice intake for a 10-person contractor
Teardown: the 11-step manual invoice flow at a 10-person contractor, the n8n + OCR + QuickBooks build that replaces it, and honest ROI math.
teardown · finance-automation · n8n · quickbooks
2026-08-06 · 7 min
The email-triage build we install most often
The architecture behind our most-installed automation: n8n + Claude + Gmail or Outlook, a 30-second first response, and a human approving every send.
email-automation · n8n · claude · architecture
2026-08-06 · 7 min
SOPs that execute themselves
How a 14-page PDF SOP becomes a checklist that executes itself: software runs steps 1–7, a human approves step 8. Worked example: client onboarding.
sop-automation · operations · n8n · teardown
2026-08-06 · 8 min
n8n vs Zapier vs Make: what we actually deploy and when
An honest comparison from an agency that deploys all three: pricing models, per-task fees, self-hosting, developer power — and when Zapier still wins.
n8n · zapier · make · comparison