Ever notice how the best companies are built on great teams? That's what drives me at KMP Consultants. We're all about putting people first to fuel sustainable growth and create workplaces where top talent thrives. 

My journey? It's been quite the ride! I've spent years in aerospace and defense, leading global teams with some pretty hefty budgets. I've had the chance to shake things up with innovative products and weather storms like economic downturns and natural disasters. Trust me, nothing teaches you about leadership quite like those experiences! 

But wait, there's more! I also helped kick off Excelation, where we're all about boosting company performance through smart benefits, savvy financial moves, and some cool automation tricks. Our goal? Save companies millions while making work better for everyone involved. 

Oh, and did I mention I lived in Asia for 16 years? Talk about an eye-opener! It really shaped my global perspective. When I'm not working, you might find me in the cockpit – I'm a commercial pilot and flight instructor. I also love participating in international missions, which keeps me on my toes and constantly learning. 

So that's me in a nutshell – always looking for new ways to lead, innovate, and make work life awesome for everyone involved. Let's connect and chat about how we can make great things happen!

Karen M. Pierce

Over the last 20+ years, I’ve helped companies across finance, logistics, fashion, and public administration design and deliver software that actually works at scale.  
From distributed systems and microservices to cloud-native and AI-driven solutions—I’ve been the person teams call when the architecture has to withstand real-world complexity.

But I don’t just build systems.  
I also build content and communities.

• As a ghostwriter, I help founders and professionals share their ideas on LinkedIn without staring at a blank page.  
• As the creator of ShipWithAI, I publish weekly step-by-step guides showing developers how to move from “idea” to “first user” with AI. → https://shipwithai.substack.com  

Who I work with:  
• CTOs and engineering leaders who need senior-level architecture and system design expertise  
• Founders and professionals who want to grow their personal brand with content that actually lands  
• Developers who want practical, repeatable ways to ship their side projects with AI  

If that sounds like you, let’s talk.  
👉 Drop me a DM or book a call—I’d be glad to see how I can help.  

If not, I hope you still get value from my content here.

Manuel Martone

I spent 47 hours building my first n8n workflow.
Most of that time wasn't actually building.
It was:

- Googling "n8n HTTP request node tutorial"
- Debugging JSON formatting errors at 11 PM
- Restarting workflows because one connection failed
- Wondering if I'm even doing this right

n8n is powerful. That's not the problem.
The problem is the gap between "I want to automate X" and "X is actually working."
That gap costs you hours. Sometimes days.

So we built Autom8n, the Bolt.new for n8n workflows.
You describe what you want to automate in plain English.
You get:

→ A complete, working n8n workflow (ready to import)
→ A detailed, human-written guide explaining each step
→ Everything configured and ready to deploy

No tutorials. No debugging. No wasted weekends.

Real examples:
"Notify me in Slack when someone fills out my website form"
→ Working workflow + setup guide in 2 minutes

"Sync new Airtable records to my Google Sheet daily"
→ Working workflow + setup guide in 2 minutes

"Send me a Telegram alert if my server goes down"
→ Working workflow + setup guide in 2 minutes

The power of n8n. 
Without the pain of n8n.

This is just the beginning.

Manuel Salvatore Martone

Startup Software Engineering Ghostwriter | 25+ years in industry, 8+ in microservices | Obsessed with solution design

Hey there, Something interesting is happening. More and more MVPs aren’t starting with: a backend framework a database schema or weeks of setup They’r

Open article: n8n is quietly becoming the MVP stack by Manuel Salvatore Martone • 1 min read

Everyone says AI “saves time.”
Funny, because most teams I see look busier than ever.

They write more prompts, patch more glue code, and fix more things at 2 a.m.
AI didn’t remove work. It multiplied coordination.

If your workflow lives partly in your head, partly in Slack, and partly in a Notion doc nobody updates, you don’t have automation.
You have a fragile ritual.

That’s the real bottleneck nobody talks about.
If this feels uncomfortably close, you already know why tools like Autom8n exist.

We built we built Autom8n to be the Bolt.new for n8n workflows.
You describe what you want to automate in plain English.
You get:

→ A complete, working n8n workflow (ready to import)
→ A detailed, human-written guide explaining each step
→ Everything configured and ready to deploy

No tutorials. No debugging. No wasted weekends.

The power of n8n. 
Without the pain of n8n.

Get early access https://autom8n.app

Most teams don’t see how fragile their AI workflows are until they try to scale them.

By then, assumptions harden, shortcuts pile up, and nobody wants to touch anything.
Autom8n is what we wish we’d had before that mess set in.
If you’re early but serious, this is your cue.

We built Autom8n for you.

You describe what you want to automate in plain English.
You get:

→ A complete, working n8n workflow (ready to import)
→ A detailed, human-written guide explaining each step
→ Everything configured and ready to deploy

No tutorials. No debugging. No wasted weekends.

The power of n8n. 
Without the pain of n8n.

Get early access https://autom8n.app

Automation without observability is wishful thinking.
If you can’t see what happened, why it happened, and what changed, you’re not in control.
You’re hoping.

AI workflows make this worse because they’re probabilistic by nature.
Autom8n was built for that reality, not in denial of it.

We built Autom8n to be the Bolt.new for n8n workflows.
You describe what you want to automate in plain English.
You get:

→ A complete, working n8n workflow (ready to import)
→ A detailed, human-written guide explaining each step
→ Everything configured and ready to deploy

No tutorials. No debugging. No wasted weekends.

The power of n8n. 
Without the pain of n8n.

Get early access https://autom8n.app

A new ShipWithAI issue is available! 
Practical extract + copy/paste prompt inside.

Read the full story on Substack → https://shipwithai.substack.com/p/sequence-the-work-ship-the-mvp-turn Before we dive into today’s post, we have some

Open article: ShipWithAI #19 - 3 STeps To Turn Your Tiny MVP Into a Buildable Plan [FREE prompt inside] by Manuel Salvatore Martone • 2 min read

ShipWithAI #19 - 3 STeps To Turn Your Tiny MVP Into a Buildable Plan [FREE prompt inside]

Every serious AI setup runs into the same three problems.

1. Context slips away
2. failures hide
3. and fixing one thing breaks two others.

Teams don’t cause this.
They lack a control layer.

You can’t duct-tape this forever.
If you already see the cracks, we built Autom8n for you.

You describe what you want to automate in plain English.
You get:

→ A complete, working n8n workflow (ready to import)
→ A detailed, human-written guide explaining each step
→ Everything configured and ready to deploy

No tutorials. No debugging. No wasted weekends.

The power of n8n. 
Without the pain of n8n.

Get early access https://autom8n.app

Ship5 #28 is out! 
Check it out to find your next side project idea + grab our one-page teaser and get all 5 concepts at a glance

Read the full issue with 5 new curated side project ideas on Substack → https://shipwithai.substack.com/p/ship5-28 Before we dive into today’s 5 new i

Open article: Ship5 #28 [FREE one-page teaser] by Manuel Salvatore Martone • 2 min read

Forget the myth of the “aha!” moment striking out of thin air.
The most successful ventures don’t start with a brilliant idea, they start with a burning problem.

A new ShipWithAI issue is available! 
Practical extract + copy/paste prompt inside.

Read the full story on Substack → https://shipwithai.substack.com/p/stop-inventing-ideas-find-real-problems Before you spend another hour configuring 

Open article: ShipWithAI #23 - Stop Inventing Ideas. Find Real Problems on Reddit [FREE prompt inside] by Manuel Salvatore Martone • 2 min read

ShipWithAI #23 - Stop Inventing Ideas. Find Real Problems on Reddit [FREE prompt inside]

We didn’t build Autom8n because we wanted another AI tool.
We built it because we got tired of workflows nobody could explain, manual retries, prompts copied across tools, and systems everyone is afraid to touch.

At some point you stop asking how to automate.
You start asking how to stay in control.

That’s the shift Autom8n is built for.
If your AI workflows feel smarter than the process around them, take a look.

Get early access https://autom8n.app

If you’re writing code before a single email signup, you’re guessing.
Features don’t validate ideas.
Strangers giving you their email do.

If people won’t give you an address, they won’t give you money.
That’s not cynicism.
It’s market gravity.

What are you building without proof?

A new ShipWithAI issue is available! 
Practical extract + copy/paste prompt inside.

Read the full story on Substack → https://shipwithai.substack.com/p/5-steps-to-validate-market-demand Before you spend another hour configuring n8n no

Open article: ShipWithAI #24 - 5 Steps To Validate Market Demand With A Waitlist Landing Page Even If You Have Zero Audience [FREE prompt inside] by Manuel Salvatore Martone • 2 min read

ShipWithAI #24 - 5 Steps To Validate Market Demand With A Waitlist Landing Page Even If You Have Zero Audience [FREE prompt inside]

Your UI isn’t blocking you because it’s bad.
It’s blocking you because you’re afraid to show it.

That fear delays shipping, validation, and feedback.
A usable UI beats a perfect one every time.

Which screen are you avoiding right now?

A new ShipWithAI issue is available! 
Practical extract + copy/paste prompt inside.

Read the full story on Substack → https://shipwithai.substack.com/p/3-tips-to-build-a-professional-ui Before you spend another hour configuring n8n no

Open article: ShipWithAI #25 - 3 Tips To Build A Professional UI With AI Even If You’ve Never Touched Design Tools [FREE prompt inside] by Manuel Salvatore Martone • 2 min read

ShipWithAI #25 - 3 Tips To Build A Professional UI With AI Even If You’ve Never Touched Design Tools [FREE prompt inside]

You watch the code compile and still feel annoyed.
You already know you’ll spend 30 minutes fixing five minutes of output.

That frustration isn’t failure.
It’s missing context.

Where does AI keep drifting for you?

A new ShipWithAI issue is available! 
Practical extract + copy/paste prompt inside.

Read the full story on Substack → https://shipwithai.substack.com/p/build-your-agents-brain Before you spend another hour configuring n8n nodes, pause

Open article: Build Your Agent's Brain [FREE prompt inside] by Manuel Salvatore Martone • 2 min read

Build Your Agent's Brain [FREE prompt inside]

Try this.

Can someone new understand your AI workflow, replay it, debug it, and change it without calling the person who built it?

If not, that workflow is a liability.

We built Autom8n to turn clever setups into systems your team can rely on.

If you’re building real workflows and not demos, this will hit home.

Get early access https://autom8n.app

The real enemy isn’t complexity.
It’s the kind you can’t see.

It hides between tools, lives in someone’s head, and only shows up when things break at the worst time.
AI doesn’t fix that, it makes it louder.

If you want workflows you can inspect, reason about, and change without holding your breath, prompts won’t cut it.
That’s the gap Autom8n closes.

We built we built Autom8n to be the Bolt.new for n8n workflows.
You describe what you want to automate in plain English.
You get:

→ A complete, working n8n workflow (ready to import)
→ A detailed, human-written guide explaining each step
→ Everything configured and ready to deploy

No tutorials. No debugging. No wasted weekends.

The power of n8n. 
Without the pain of n8n.

Get early access https://autom8n.app

People ask us: “Why not just use n8n, scripts or docs?”
Because orchestration without visibility turns into chaos with more steps.

Autom8n doesn’t replace your tools.
It gives them structure.

If ad hoc automation already creaks under your feet, this will click.

We built Autom8n to be the Bolt.new for n8n workflows.
You describe what you want to automate in plain English.
You get:

→ A complete, working n8n workflow (ready to import)
→ A detailed, human-written guide explaining each step
→ Everything configured and ready to deploy

No tutorials. No debugging. No wasted weekends.

The power of n8n. 
Without the pain of n8n.

Get early access https://autom8n.app

Here’s the difference nobody explains about AI automation.

The old way is simple.
You wire a prompt to a tool, it works, you move on.
Then you hope it keeps working.

The new way treats the workflow as a system.
You expect change and plan for it.
You design for inspection, replay, and evolution.

The AI is the same.
The tools are the same.
The outcome is completely different.

Autom8n exists because we crossed that line and couldn’t go back.
If your setups feel fragile instead of clever, you’ve crossed it too.

Get early access https://autom8n.app

Set it and forget it is the most dangerous phrase in AI automation.

Models change.
Inputs drift.
Edge cases pile up quietly.

Nothing involving AI stays stable by default.
The moment we accepted that, our approach changed completely.

Autom8n is built on the assumption that things will change.
It’s designed so you can understand why when they do.

If your workflows already feel like moving targets, you’re not imagining it.

We built Autom8n to be the Bolt.new for n8n workflows.
You describe what you want to automate in plain English.
You get:

→ A complete, working n8n workflow (ready to import)
→ A detailed, human-written guide explaining each step
→ Everything configured and ready to deploy

No tutorials. No debugging. No wasted weekends.

The power of n8n. 
Without the pain of n8n.

Get early access https://autom8n.app

What actually breaks AI workflows isn’t complexity.
It’s unspoken assumptions.

Teams assume things about input shape, model behavior, retry logic, and the cases that usually seem to work.
Those assumptions live in someone’s head.
Until one day they don’t.

We didn’t learn this as a theory.
We learned it while fixing the same workflow again and again.

Autom8n grew out of that frustration.
It removes assumptions from people and puts them into a system.

That’s the difference between clever setups and dependable ones.

Get early access https://autom8n.app

If explaining your AI workflow needs a Loom, a long Slack thread, or a “just trust me,” pause.

That’s not documentation.
That’s damage control.

Workflows should explain themselves.
Autom8n makes execution visible and reasoning possible, even for people who didn’t build it.

If team ownership matters, this lands.

We built Autom8n to be the Bolt.new for n8n workflows.
You describe what you want to automate in plain English.
You get:

→ A complete, working n8n workflow (ready to import)
→ A detailed, human-written guide explaining each step
→ Everything configured and ready to deploy

No tutorials. No debugging. No wasted weekends.

The power of n8n. 
Without the pain of n8n.

Get early access https://autom8n.app

Debugging AI workflows isn’t like debugging code.

You’re not fixing deterministic logic.
You’re investigating behavior.

Why did this output happen?
Why now?
Why only sometimes?

Without execution context, you’re guessing.

We built Autom8n assuming debugging would be a first-class activity, not an afterthought.
If you’ve asked “why did it do that?” lately, you already get it.

Get early access https://autom8n.app

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