Hello. So I'm still in the getting clients phase of automation and I've been reaching out to property managers in the real estate space. My question is I've been exclusively working with Make.com for my automations and airtable for my CRM. Is it worth learning n8n also? If so, is there a free version of it? I know I can create automations that work in make.com but is that platform still beneficial?

What I Scheduled: Two scripts, two times, every trading day — no input from me. morning_prep.py runs at 8:00am. It scans for pre-market gappers, pulls the fundamentals, filters out ETFs, and emails me a game plan before the open. gapper_tracker.py runs at 4:30pm. It collects end-of-day data — gap %, volume, how it traded, next-day follow-through — and syncs everything to a Google Sheet automatically. Both run through Windows Task Scheduler. Scheduled Task or Loop? Scheduled task. The market runs on a fixed clock, so the automation does too. 8am before the open, 4:30pm after the close. One Surprise: The agent caught a bug I hadn't noticed. My gap % column was showing near-zero on stocks Finviz had flagged at 10%+. It traced the root cause to Polygon's adjusted=true flag inflating previous close on reverse-split stocks — silently corrupting my historical data. Two-line fix. But I wasn't looking for it. The agent found it on its own while doing something else. That's the part that stuck with me — it catches things you weren't watching for.