n8n workflows that quietly do the work a human used to do.

We build the automation that replaces manual data entry, inbox triage, CRM updates, and the hundred other small tasks that bleed your team’s day. Self-hosted or cloud, documented, monitored, yours.

Live · workflow running
Flow · invoice processingn8n · v0.42
247 runs today99.6% success · avg 1.2s
1 wkpilot to live
100%you own the workflows
70%+cheaper than Zapier at scale
The problem

Why most automation breaks every Tuesday.

Most workflow automation is built by someone who’s no longer at the company. The Zapier zap nobody documented. The webhook nobody understands. The n8n flow that breaks when an API changes and nobody notices for three days. Built right, automation is invisible. Built wrong, it’s a tax on someone’s afternoon. We build the invisible kind — documented, monitored, with on-call when it breaks.

Automation incident log · sample3 incidents
01 · Fail·STALE_WEBHOOK
CRIT

Stripe webhook silently failed three days ago. New orders went to /dev/null and nobody noticed.

orders lost:47·no monitoring
02 · Fail·ZAPIER_OVERAGE
WARN

Hit the 5K-task plan limit; overage at $0.30 per task; last month’s bill spiked $1.2K with no warning.

overage:$1.2K/mo·unscoped plan
03 · Fail·ABANDONED_FLOW
WARN

The contractor who built the 14-step automation left six months ago. Nobody on the team understands it.

maintainers:0·undocumented
What we ship

Four shapes, one engineering team.

01

n8n workflow builds

Self-hosted or cloud. We pick the right tool for your scale and lock-in tolerance.

02

Document pipelines

Inbox → extract → classify → store. Or PDF → OCR → structured data → CRM. The boring middle of every ops team’s day.

03

AI-enriched automation

Workflows that call LLMs at the right step — summarize, classify, draft — with human gates where they matter.

04

System integrations

Stripe ↔ CRM, helpdesk ↔ Slack, calendar ↔ everywhere. The plumbing that keeps your SaaS stack honest.

Why Zaibex

Side-by-side with a typical agency.

We don’t outbid the cheap shops, and we don’t pretend to be McKinsey. Here’s where the real practical difference lives.

Typical agency
Zaibex
n8n freelancer, no docs
Documented, monitored, on-call
Zapier $0.30/task at scale
Self-hosted n8n, fixed monthly cost
Hourly billing, scope creep
Fixed-price per workflow
Built then abandoned
On retainer for monitoring + changes
Locked into one vendor
Code you own, portable to any platform
Generic flow templates
Custom-built for your operations
The stack

The exact tools and why we chose them.

No mystery stack, no platform lock-in. You see what we use, you read why, and you own the keys on day one.

01 · Automation
n8n (self-hosted or cloud)

Open-source, 70%+ cheaper than Zapier at scale, full AI agent support.

02 · Quick wins
Make · Zapier

When the workflow is small and time-to-live matters more than cost.

03 · Custom code
Next.js API routes

When the workflow needs more than a no-code tool can give.

04 · Data
Postgres · Airtable

Where the workflow needs a real source of truth.

05 · AI
Claude · OpenAI

For extraction, classification, drafting — where LLMs replace 80% of human effort.

06 · Monitoring
Custom + Slack alerts

When a workflow breaks, the team knows in minutes, not days.

The process

Discover · Architect · Build · Ship.

Four stages, named timelines, named deliverables. No open-ended discovery. No moving goalposts.

01·1 day

Discover

We watch your team do the work. The first time, that’s where the workflow lives.

  • Workflow map
  • Edge-case inventory
  • Success metric
02·1 day

Architect

We pick the tool, design the flow, define error handling, write the eval cases.

  • Tool recommendation
  • Flow design
  • Error handling spec
03·3–5 days

Build

Build it, run it through edge cases, get sign-off.

  • Workflow on staging
  • Test cases pass
  • Documentation
04·1 day

Ship

Cutover with team training. We monitor for 14 days.

  • Production cutover
  • Team training
  • 14-day hyper-care
In production

Real numbers, named client.

800+calls auto-processed through n8n + CRM workflow
Recruitment automation
Read the full case study
The problem

A recruitment firm needed every voice agent call to land in the CRM, scored, with calendar links to recruiter follow-ups — without a human typing them in.

Our approach

We built an n8n flow that captured every call, ran it through Claude for qualification scoring, pushed it to HubSpot, and sent booking links to the candidate.

The outcome

800+ calls auto-routed in 90 days. Zero manual data entry. Recruiters only see qualified warm leads.

Pricing & timeline

Fixed price. Fixed scope. Public ranges.

We don’t hide pricing behind a sales call. Pick the tier that matches your stage. The discovery call confirms scope, not budget.

Pilot
$1.5K
1 week
  • One workflow built (n8n, Make, or Zapier)
  • Documented and tested
  • Monitoring + Slack alerts
  • Source code / config yours
  • 3 months of support
Custom
Let's talk
Tailored to scope
  • Multi-workflow operations
  • Self-hosted n8n + custom code
  • AI enrichment at the right steps
  • Ongoing retainer + on-call
Honest answers

The questions we actually hear on calls.

n8n, Make, or Zapier — which?

Depends on scale and lock-in tolerance. Zapier is fastest for one-off, Make is mid-tier, n8n is what we recommend for anything serious — open-source, self-hostable, and 70%+ cheaper at scale.

Can you migrate us off Zapier?

Yes. We’ve moved teams off Zapier when the monthly bill crossed $500 — usually onto self-hosted n8n with a one-time setup.

Will the workflow break when APIs change?

It might — every workflow eventually does. We build with version-pinned API calls and alerts on failure. Monthly retainer covers fixes.

Can it call LLMs for things like classification?

Yes. Most modern workflows include at least one Claude call — extracting structured data, summarizing, classifying, drafting. We design the human-in-the-loop gates where they matter.

Will my team need to learn n8n?

No, but they can. We document the workflow, write a runbook, and train one person on your team if they want to make small changes themselves.

Do we own the workflow?

Yes. Self-hosted n8n means the JSON config is yours, on your server. Even on cloud, the config is exportable. No lock-in.

Ready when you are

Every team has a workflow that’s quietly killing morale. The repetitive thing nobody wants to do, that a person does for two hours every week, that adds up to a week per year per person. We make it invisible — documented, monitored, fixed when it breaks. The kind of automation that feels boring, because it works.