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Here’s how it works: Over two weeks, we'll work together to build your first AI agents. No fluff. No theory. Just hands-on building with me and the AI Automation Society team. By the end, you'll have working AI agents in your portfolio and the confidence that comes from actually doing it. You also have the foundation you need to begin charging businesses for developing custom AI agents. And the best part? The whole class is FREE (with a small catch). If you're ready to stop sitting on the sidelines, click below to grab your spot. ANNOUNCING: An automation accelerator for beginners (it's free) Talk soon, Nate PS: Some of my students are making $10,000 + from creating automations like these. If you want to start your own AI automation agency one day, this is the perfect first step.

I’ve been getting this question a lot lately. With AI automations becoming easier to build with AI, and OpenAI releasing AgentKit, people are wondering if n8n is even worth learning anymore. But here’s the truth: if I had to start all over again knowing nothing, I’d still learn everything I could about n8n. Because when you learn n8n, you’re not just learning one tool, you’re learning how systems think. You start to see how triggers connect, how data flows, and how logic turns into results. And once you understand that, you can jump to any platform in the world and master it instantly. You become tool-agnostic, and that’s where the real freedom lies. When you learn how to build workflows yourself, you also learn lessons that can’t be taught through flashy AI demos. You start to see what automations can really do, how reliable AI actually is, and what’s possible when you combine logic with creativity. You learn how to build systems that save time, cut costs, and actually work in the real world, not just on paper. That skill separates you from everyone else trying to sell the same thing. Because when clients hire you, they’re not hiring you to drag nodes on a screen, they’re hiring you to think like an automator. They want someone who understands the logic behind the system, can identify what’s going wrong, and knows how to make it better. The people who skip this step, the ones relying entirely on “AI agents that build workflows for you”, are like someone trying to sell a cake after only seeing a picture of it. They don’t know the ingredients, how it was baked, or even the flavor. So when they try to explain it to others, they sound the same as everyone else. But when you’ve actually baked the cake yourself, you can describe the flavor, the texture, the process, and that builds trust. And in this space, trust is everything. Automation is one of the few skills in the world that directly compounds over time. Once you know how to identify bottlenecks, map processes, and connect systems, you can apply that skill to any business or industry. And the ROI is real, recent studies by Deloitte and McKinsey show companies that invest in automation see up to a 30% reduction in operating costs and often double or triple their productivity within months. The people who understand how to build and maintain these systems are the ones leading that transformation.

40-year-old construction company client. Their document sources made me cry. THE FRANKENSTEIN INPUTS Fax machine from 1997 still receives quotes Email attachments in 12 different formats Photos from job sites with handwritten estimates on napkins Scanned contracts from the 90s Modern PDFs from new suppliers Excel sheets with bizarre macros Built the ugliest n8n workflow ever. 23 nodes of pure chaos. THE MONSTROSITY ARCHITECTURE 5 input nodes: Email, fax server, Dropbox, API webhook, manual upload 7 document detection types: Fax quality, photo, scan, PDF, Excel, Word, other 12 different processing paths based on document characteristics Fax documents get noise reduction plus OCR enhancement Photos get perspective correction plus handwriting OCR Scans get deskew plus quality improvement PDFs get standard extraction Tables get structure preservation Legacy formats get conversion first Validation layer with confidence scoring, human review queue, retry logic Output integration to their ancient ERP system using SOAP API from 2003 Email notification system with color-coded status reports IT'S HIDEOUS BUT PROFITABLE Monthly processing volume: 847 fax documents (yes really) 1,230 email attachments 456 job site photos 2,100+ total documents Results after 8 months: 97.3% processing success rate Saved 3 full-time data entry positions Client fee: $3,800/month API costs: $127/month Profit: $3,673/month THE UGLY TRUTH My prettiest 6-node workflows: Average $900/month My ugliest 23+ node monsters: Average $3,200/month Clean workflows impress developers. Working workflows impress clients. Current ugly workflow revenue: $14,800/month across 4 clients Pretty workflows: $4,200/month across 7 clients The construction client just referred me to 3 competitors. All have similar document chaos. What's your ugliest automation that somehow prints money?