How I made over $100K this year by accepting a 1-hr n8n gig
Hey guys, 2025 has been a wild year for me. Went from serving Fortune 500 clients, to that company liquidating, and then making $100K from a single client requesting n8n automation help. This client had posted about needing someone to teach them how to setup and evaluate an n8n automation for automating legal pleading responses. I attached the proposal I responded with and the first workflow. After meeting with him I built a 7 workflow Automation that: - Watches a google drive folder for new documents related to a case - uses OCR to extract text from the document - Reads all the case documents + the new doc - Extracts arguments + facts + case law - Forms an informed response using a case law research AI Agent - Drafts it with proper case law citation - Sends it to proper attorney to review Tech Stack - 1. n8n - for orchestration 2. OpenAI - AI Agent definition 3. AWS Textract - for OCR 4. AWS lambda + AWS S3 Bucket + Python - b/c n8n doesn't have great AWS Textract connectors 5. CourtListener + Google Scholar - Case Law research AI Agent 6. Google Drive - for triggering the workflow This workflow was about a $10K engagement and finished it in about a week. I closed a bunch of other work with him based on other projects he was working on that resulted in the rest of my income from him this year.