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Jul 25 •
Welcome to The Build Lab—Your Hub for AI and Automation!
I'm Dan McCoy—former healthcare CEO turned AI strategist. I've helped organizations save millions through smart AI and automation strategies, and now I want to help you build the same capabilities. This isn't another theory-heavy AI group. This is where we roll up our sleeves and actually build things with AI. What you'll find here: 📚 The Classroom → Start with "AI Automation Fundamentals" for AI tools and workflows that deliver results in days, not months 🔬 Private Practicum Forum → Exclusive space for our graduate students from the AI and automation practicum program. (Invitation only, but everyone can engage in the broader community discussions) 🎯 Weekly Deep Dives → I'll share the exact AI prompts, automation workflows, and tools we use at RocketTools to transform how businesses operate Your first mission: Drop a comment below with: Your biggest AI or automation challenge right now One task you'd love AI to handle for you What you're hoping to automate or enhance with AI in the next 30 days I read every response and often turn your challenges into our next classroom lesson. Fair warning: I believe in learning by doing with AI. Expect hands-on projects. Expect to actually build AI-powered solutions. Expect to surprise yourself with what's possible when you combine human creativity with artificial intelligence. Ready to turn your busywork into breakthrough work with AI? Let's automate the ordinary and amplify the extraordinary through intelligent automation. — Dan
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Google just dropped a game-changer: Context URLs
I spent the last 3 hours building something in n8n that would've taken me 3 days to code from scratch. No web scraping. No API limits. No blocked requests. Here's what happened: Google quietly released Context URLs - a way to pull structured content from ANY website without traditional scraping. Think of it as giving AI agents x-ray vision for web content. In my n8n demo, I'm pulling real-time data from a sites that normally block automated requests. The Context URL feature treats it like a human browser session, but returns structured JSON that my AI agents can actually understand. The workflow I built: - Input any website URL - Google's Context API extracts the meaningful content - n8n processes it through my custom AI agent - Output: Clean, structured data ready for analysis What used to require complex proxy rotations and headless browsers now takes 3 nodes in n8n. Success rate? Not 100%. But, it still works great! No rate limits hit. No captchas triggered. No IP blocks. The real power isn't just avoiding scraping headaches - it's that Context URLs understand the semantic structure of pages. For anyone building automation workflows, this changes everything. You can now build reliable data pipelines from sites that were previously off-limits. Who else has tried Context URLs yet? What's your biggest challenge with web data extraction that this might solve?
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🚀 N8N Just Changed the Game with Data Table
Quick heads up on something that's about to save you hours (and probably thousands in infrastructure costs). N8N just released Data Tables, and I've spent the last 24 hours going deep on this. What this means for us: You can now store and manage data directly inside your N8N workflows. No external database needed. No SQL knowledge required. No separate infrastructure to maintain. Real build I just tested: Created a complete lead scoring system that: - Captures form submissions - Stores contact data in N8N's native table - Automatically enriches with API data - Scores leads based on behavior Time to build: 22 minutes. Cost: $0 extra. Technical details that excited me: - Full CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete) - REST API access to your tables - Real-time syncing - Export to any format - Query from any node in your workflow For the solopreneurs here: Test your MVP ideas without technical debt. I watched a founder yesterday replicate what would normally be a $5k/month database setup in about an hour. Challenge for the community: What's one manual process in your workflow that you could eliminate if your data lived inside your automations? Drop your use case below. Who's already playing with this? Share your experiments!
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Creating a Searchable Database with Exact Citations
I just built something that completely changes how we access clinical knowledge. You know that frustration when you need exact language from a clinical guideline, but you're digging through 200-page PDFs? I connected an AI agent in n8n directly to a Pinecone vector database containing uploaded clinical algorithms. Now I get precise citations and exact language from any document in seconds, not hours. The best part? I recorded the entire build process from scratch. In 18 minutes, you'll see exactly how to: - Set up the n8n workflow with Pinecone integration - Configure the vector store for clinical documents - Build the agent that delivers exact citations - Test it with real clinical algorithms - This isn't theory. I've been using this system daily at RocketTools for client work, and it's cut my research time by 80%. The precision is incredible - it doesn't just give you "related content." It gives you the exact paragraph, page number, and context you need for compliance documentation. Watch the full build here: https://vimeo.com/1120642938/d18fc27121?share=copy Who else is building AI agents for healthcare workflows? What's your biggest challenge with clinical documentation?
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14d •
A little stuck here...
trying to get typebot to use n8n to use openrouter then respond back to typebot but can't seem to figure out how to close the loop... many times when we counsel patients especially on several medications at once you can tell the patient is not retaining enough of the information, curently we ask them to call us back if they forgot something but im thinking of creating a way to generate a transcript of the discussion which would capture the patients specific questions and then send them an email. I believe this would be especially helpful for patients with specialty medications which can be quite complicated and for spanish speakers (prevalent in El Paso, TX).
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