Intermediate
n8n Business Automations: Real Workflows That Scale
Build real business automations in n8n: lead capture and CRM sync, AI-personalised email sequences, social media cross-posting, approval workflows, weekly digests, and 12 complete workflow patterns.
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The Automation Mindset: Map Before You Build
Learn to think about automation strategically: identify the right processes to automate, map them before building, and prioritise by impact so your first workflows deliver real value fast.
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Lead Capture and CRM Sync
Build a lead capture workflow that receives form submissions, enriches the lead data, creates a CRM contact record, and notifies your sales team in Slack — in under 30 seconds.
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AI-Personalised Email Sequences
Build an email sequence that personalises each message using AI, automates multi-step follow-ups with Wait node delays, and sends through Gmail or SendGrid.
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Social Media Cross-Posting
Build a cross-posting automation that takes a single content source — blog post, RSS feed, or spreadsheet row — and distributes adapted versions to multiple social platforms automatically.
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05
Slack Command to Instant Report
Build a Slack slash command that pulls live data from Google Sheets or Airtable, formats it into a clean report, and posts it back to Slack — in under 3 seconds.
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Payment and Invoice Notifications
Build a payment event workflow: Stripe webhook triggers notifications for successful payments, failed charges, and subscription cancellations — with revenue tracking to Google Sheets.
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Content Brief to Published Post
Build a content workflow that takes a brief from an n8n Form or Airtable, drafts an article with AI, routes it for human approval, and publishes to WordPress or another CMS.
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Weekly Digest Email
Build a weekly digest email that aggregates data from multiple sources on a schedule, formats it as a clean HTML email, and delivers it to your team or subscriber list automatically.
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Customer Feedback Routing
Build a feedback workflow that classifies incoming responses by sentiment, routes negative feedback for immediate review, and aggregates positive feedback to a testimonials database.
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Multi-Step Approval Workflows
Build production-ready approval workflows using the Wait node: pause for human decisions via Slack buttons, email links, or n8n forms, with timeouts that escalate when no response arrives.
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n8n Forms: Built-In Data Collection Without Typeform
Learn how to use n8n's built-in Form Trigger to collect data from users, build multi-step forms with branching logic, and start automations the moment a form is submitted.
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Capstone: Your Personal Automation Stack
Consolidate what you've learned by identifying your own automation opportunities, prioritising them with an impact-effort framework, and building a roadmap for your personal automation stack.
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