The Reality of Building an AI & Automation Agency 1. Industry Demand & Top Tools - Efficiency over Revenue Growth: Surprisingly, especially in Europe, the primary demand for automation is not for lead generation or sales, but for reducing bureaucracy, automating administrative tasks, and building document bots. - AI Models (Claude & OpenAI): Claude (Anthropic) is seeing massive demand for complex reasoning and its ecosystem of agents. However, for simple, repetitive tasks at scale (like processing thousands of invoices), pairing OpenAI with n8n is often more predictable and cost-effective. UiPath remains essential for RPA and legacy systems. 2. Acquiring Clients (Sales Strategy) - "Push" is Better than "Pull": Active outbound sales (cold calling, cold emails) drive the most revenue. While inbound leads ("pull") are easier to close, building an inbound pipeline takes years. - Listen and Adapt: Founders should aim for 20-30 client meetings a month. The goal is to listen to the client's actual problems and adapt the sales pitch accordingly, rather than blindly pushing a pre-built technological solution. - Embrace Selling: There is often a cultural stigma against selling (particularly in Europe), but overcoming this and stepping out of your comfort zone is absolutely crucial for the survival and growth of the agency. 3. Business Model & Pricing - The "Agency Trap": Offering a generic "we do everything" service is very hard to scale and can ruin profitability. Large corporate clients often have bureaucratic blockers (like taking hours or days just to provide IT credentials) that can derail a project's timeline. - Productize Your Services: For small and medium-sized businesses, doing customized, à la carte hourly work is rarely worth it. Instead, focus on a single industry problem and create a repeatable, pre-packaged solution. - Clear Pricing Structures: Agencies can charge per hour, per impact (based on time/money saved), or a flat fee per service. However, mixing these models in front of the client causes confusion and kills deals; the pricing must always be crystal clear.

Hi Everybody! These resources walk you through setting up n8n on your own machine using Docker, no cloud subscriptions needed. The step-by-step installation guide takes you from zero to a running n8n instance in minutes, with a clean folder structure that keeps your workflows, credentials, and files safe across updates. The docker-compose file is ready to use out of the box, so you don't need to configure anything from scratch. Whether you're running a single personal instance or multiple environments for different clients, these docs give you a solid, upgrade-proof foundation to start building automations locally.

Hello everybody! We are hosting an online event for people to learn how to setup n8n locally and run it for free forever! Join us on the 9th of June at 6 PM (WET) We all also share the materials!

🔧 WHAT YOU'LL SEE IN THIS SESSION ✅ Multi-source job aggregator — one n8n workflow that automatically collects jobs from 8+ public job boards (Himalayas, Remotive, We Work Remotely, RemoteOK, JobEC, Jobspresso, Remote Jobs, Active Jobs) and consolidates everything into a single Google Sheet — filtered by keyword and date ✅ LinkedIn job collection with Apify — how to use your own LinkedIn search filters and automate the collection of matching job listings directly into your job tracker without manual searching ✅ AI-powered Harvard resume generator — paste a job description (or pull it directly from your Google Sheet) and get a fully tailored, Harvard-format resume generated in seconds using your experience, skills, education and achievements