Seeking pricing feedback: PDF to Drupal automation with Claude AI

Hello community. I built an automation system for a Spanish magazine that processes PDF articles and publishes them to Drupal. Looking for feedback on what something like this should cost.

Scope:

Processes ~40 PDF articles/month
Saves ~18 hours/month of manual work (30min → 2-3min per article)
Built with n8n (21-node workflow), Claude Vision API, Drupal JSON:API

What it does:

Detects new PDF in Google Drive
Claude Vision extracts: title, author, section, lead, content, magazine issue, featured quotes
Transforms content to HTML, splits by H3 tags into separate sections
Maps PDF sections to Drupal taxonomies (built custom mapping logic with defaults)
Creates multiple paragraph entities in Drupal (one per section)
Searches for author, categories, section, magazine UUIDs in parallel
Creates complete article with all relationships
Moves file to completed/error folders, sends email notifications

Technical challenges solved:

Dual taxonomy mapping (web categories vs print sections don't match 1:1)
Content splitting by regex for modular paragraphs (enables future image insertion)
Claude prompt engineering for consistent JSON output
Error handling with defaults and notifications
Parallel API calls to Drupal

Development time: ~2 weeks (including Postman testing, prompt refinement, error handling)

Current status: Tested with 3 PDFs, ready for production

What would you charge for something like this? Trying to understand market rates for workflow automation + AI integration projects.

Thank you very much!

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