--- title: "n8n automation agency: workflows built and maintained" description: "We design, install and maintain your n8n workflows: CRM, invoicing, email, AI agents. Documented, and looked after. Free quote within 48 hours." canonical: https://sdk.enterprises/en/n8n-automation language: en --- # n8n automation: your tools connected, no more retyping. n8n is an automation tool that connects your software: CRM, email, spreadsheets, invoicing, business applications. We design your workflows, install n8n on the hosting you choose, add AI where it adds something, then look after it all: error monitoring, updates and changes. - Free quote within 48 hours - Documented workflows, handed over to your team - On n8n Cloud or installed on your own servers [Book a call](https://sdk.enterprises/en/book-a-call). [Free AI audit](https://sdk.enterprises/en/free-ai-audit). ## The tasks n8n makes disappear - **Typing the same data twice**: A form filled in on the website, copied into the CRM, then into the tracking spreadsheet. A workflow does it once, for every new request. - **Forgotten follow-ups**: Unanswered quotes, unpaid invoices, missing documents: n8n sends the reminder at the right time and tells the person in charge. - **Monday's exports and reports**: Figures pulled together by hand from several tools. The workflow collects them and sends the report on its own. - **Home-made automations**: Scripts or scenarios nobody knows how to maintain anymore. We take them over, document them and make them reliable. ## Workflows that run, and someone who looks after them - **Workflows designed with you**: Each step described with the team doing the task today, so we automate the real process and not an ideal one. - **n8n set up**: On n8n Cloud or on your servers, with access, backups and security set up. - **AI where it helps**: Reading an email, extracting an invoice's fields, summarizing a document: AI steps in the workflow, with a person signing off if needed. - **Error monitoring**: Every failure is reported and fixed. Workflows are documented, so your team knows what runs and why. ## From manual task to workflow in production - **Mapping**: We list with you the repetitive tasks, the tools involved and the volumes. - **Free quote within 48 hours**: The workflows to build, the tools to connect and the hosting chosen, in writing. - **Build and try**: We build the workflows and try them on your real data before switching them on. - **Launch and follow-up**: Workflows go into production, with an alert on any failure. We change them as your needs change. ## Four workflows that end retyping Every workflow starts from a trigger (an email, a form, a date) and chains actions across your tools. - **New lead**: Website form → CRM record completed → sales team notified → reply email sent. - **Supplier invoices**: Email received → amounts and dates extracted by AI → matched to the order → entry prepared for approval. - **New customer**: Contract signed → accounts, shared folder and kick-off tasks created, with nothing forgotten. - **Business reporting**: Every week, the key figures collected from your tools and sent in a readable report. ## n8n or custom development? n8n covers a lot of needs, not all of them. Here is how we decide with you. | Question | n8n workflow | Custom development | | --- | --- | --- | | Best for | Connecting existing tools and chaining actions. | Complex business logic, an interface for your users, a product. | | Getting started | Quick to build and to change, step by step. | Longer to build, with no limit on what the software can do. | | Changes | A workflow is edited visually; your team can read it. | Every change goes through code, tested and reviewed. | | Volumes | Fits most of a small company's flows. | Designed for high volumes or real-time processing. | | Our advice | Start here when the need is connecting tools. | Move here when the workflow becomes a product in its own right. | ## Engineers used to data flows Our engineers have built systems that ingest continuous data streams, such as Slump's 5G monitoring, and AI-driven internal tools at NorthStar Network. An n8n workflow needs the same discipline: error handling, logs, recovery after an incident. - [Re-architecting APIs for a sports media platform with 50M+ monthly users](https://sdk.enterprises/en/work/northstar-sports-media-apis) - [Real-time 5G network monitoring for operators in southern Spain](https://sdk.enterprises/en/work/slump-5g-monitoring) ## Common questions about n8n ### What is n8n? A workflow automation tool: you connect your software and chain actions (create a record, send an email, call an AI model) without developing everything. It runs online or on your own servers. ### Why n8n rather than Zapier or Make? All three connect tools. n8n is the one we work with: it can run on your own servers and accepts JavaScript or Python steps when a workflow needs them. The right choice depends on your tools, your volumes and your data rules: we look at it with you during the audit. ### Does our data stay with us? If n8n is installed on your servers, the data the workflows process stays there, except for calls you allow to outside services, an AI model for example. We agree this with you before we build. ### Who maintains the workflows? We do, if you want: error monitoring, n8n updates and changes. Workflows are documented, and your team can also take them over. ### How much does an n8n automation cost? It depends on the number of workflows, the tools to connect and the hosting. You get a free quote within 48 hours, with the scope in writing. ## Start from your need - [Free AI audit](https://sdk.enterprises/en/free-ai-audit): A 45-minute video call to find what AI can automate in your business, then a written summary of 3 automations or AI agents to start with. - [AI for SMEs](https://sdk.enterprises/en/ai-for-smes): AI agents and automations connected to your tools that take over repetitive work, with a person signing off where it matters. - [Mobile app development](https://sdk.enterprises/en/mobile-app-development): iOS and Android apps for your customers or your teams, with the APIs and back office that keep them running. - [Website development](https://sdk.enterprises/en/website-development): Fast business websites structured for Google and connected to your tools, built to bring in enquiries. - [AI agents](https://sdk.enterprises/en/services/ai-agents): AI agents that take repetitive work off your team, with people in control. - [Custom software](https://sdk.enterprises/en/services/product-engineering): Web and mobile apps, platforms and APIs that stay fast as you grow. - [Hire AI agent developers](https://sdk.enterprises/en/hire/ai-agent-developers): Vetted freelance developers who build AI agents on OpenAI and Anthropic Claude, with logs and human approval. - [Hire full-stack developers](https://sdk.enterprises/en/hire/full-stack-developers): Vetted freelance full-stack developers who ship features from the database to the screen. - [What is n8n? Definition, uses and limits](https://sdk.enterprises/en/insights/what-is-n8n) - [n8n vs Make vs Zapier: which to choose for an SME?](https://sdk.enterprises/en/insights/n8n-vs-make-vs-zapier) - [How to automate supplier invoice processing](https://sdk.enterprises/en/insights/automating-supplier-invoices)