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I'm Tim Sergev, the COO at Pipeline Upgrade. We help UK IT providers fill their calendars with qualified meetings without the gamble of retainers or hiring SDRs.

We've delivered 2,500+ qualified meetings and generated £10M+ in client revenue by solving one critical problem: getting IT providers in front of buyers exactly when they're ready to switch.


HERE'S HOW WE WORK:

You tell us your ICP (company size, sector, services, buying signals). We find them, qualify them, and book the meetings. You only pay when they show up qualified.

No retainers. No ramp periods. No wasted ad spend.


WE CAN HELP YOU IF:

- You're an MSP, VAR, or IT reseller doing consistent revenue but growth has plateaued. You need predictable pipeline without hiring a sales team

- You've burned cash on retainer agencies (£5K+/month) that delivered reports instead of meetings. You want results you can actually measure

- You want 10-20 qualified meetings per month with IT buyers actively evaluating new providers


REAL RESULTS:

• One client got 80 meetings in 60 days and created a £2M pipeline. 

• Another invested £10K with us and signed a £250K contract.

• Our meeting rejection rate sits below 10% (most agencies are 30%+).


SO IF YOU:

- Are a UK IT services provider doing £10M+ annually
- Sell solutions with contract values £20K+
- Want your sales team calendar filled with qualified IT buyers

Send me a DM, or book free consultation at 👉 https://www.pipelineupgrade.com/

Tim Sergeev

Most marketing agencies sell visibility.

Very few sell outcomes.

Our appointment setting delivers 4x higher ROI than traditional marketing services.

Not because we are smarter.
Not because we are louder.

Because we optimise for the only metric that matters.

→ Qualified appointments
→ Real conversations
→ Actual opportunities

SEO looks good.
Content looks good.
Social media looks good.

But none of them pay salaries.

Appointments do.

And that is why appointment setting is not sexy.

No fancy graphs.
No vanity metrics.
No dopamine hits.

Just booked meetings and close rates.

Businesses do not need more exposure.

They need more conversations with the right people.

Everything else is noise.

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Tim Sergeev
COO @ Pipeline Upgrade
I make business run smoothly

COO @ Pipeline Upgrade | Predictable Revenue for UK IT Providers 👉 pipelineupgrade.com

Lately I keep coming back to the same thought.

Most service businesses are not limited by sales.

They are limited by operations.

I did not fully realise this until we hit the wall ourselves in 2025.

We were working hard but every new client made the business harder, not better.

That was the warning sign.

So instead of pushing for more growth, we slowed down and fixed delivery.

We've made one clear way of doing things.

Nothing fancy.

However the outcome was astonishing.

With the SAME TEAM, we started handling around 4x MORE CLIENTS.

Thats insane, right?

4x revenue doing the same thing.

That changed how I look at growth.

If operations are messy, growth just amplifies the mess.
More clients do not fix the business.

I genuinely believe this will become obvious to a lot of founders in 2026.

Not because it is trendy, but because the ceiling becomes impossible to ignore.

If growth feels hard, it might not be a demand problem.

It might simply be how your business runs.

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Tim Sergeev
COO @ Pipeline Upgrade
I make business run smoothly

I do not believe in New Years resolutions.

I believe in written goals and brutal focus.

I have been writing my goals every year for the last three years.
And every year, I achieved them.

Not because the goals were easy.
And not because I knew how to achieve them.

But because written goals change how you operate.

Here is what writing goals really does:

→ It forces you to choose
→ It removes ambiguity
→ It turns ideas into commitments

When goals are written, everything else becomes noise.

You stop asking
"What should I do next?"

You start asking
"Does this move me closer to the goal?"

That shift changes everything.

The days when you feel lost?
↳ The goals tell you what to do.

The days when everything feels urgent?
↳ The goals tell you what to ignore.

The days when you doubt yourself?
↳ The goals keep you moving.

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So here is the question for you:

Did you write your goals or are you hoping the year figures it out for you?

♻️ Share your opinion in comment section bellow

Want to equip yourself or your team with the one skill that's reshaping content, marketing, and operations? 

I'm talking about AI automation. 

I'm deeply passionate about this tech, and my mission is to help you not just adopt it, but to 
- build it
- learn it 
- own it 
turning it into your team's superpower.

My approach is to make automation accessible and manageable for you. 

Here’s how we can work together:
- Learn the Ropes: Check out my free YouTube tutorials for practical guides on automation.
- Build With Your Team (Workshops): In focused, hands-on sessions, you learn by doing, with expert support.
- Strategic Automation Partnerships: For businesses needing ongoing support, I offer consulting and co-creation on content automation or marketing ops projects (these engagements start at $5,000/month).

I love working on projects that automate:
- Content creation and management from start to finish.
- Key marketing tasks to improve efficiency.
- Data gathering and analysis for better insights.
- The behind-the-scenes work of personal brands and YouTube channels.

How to get started (choose what works best for you):
- Explore my tutorials on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCRKoQ6K4-bgTB_XArcl2Dg
- Send me a message to discuss a workshop or project,
- Book a free 30-min Intro Call to get to know each other and discuss your idea

Nadia Privalikhina

n8n, Claude Code, or Clawdbot? Wrong question.
Here's the right one ↴

The past week, everyone discovered a new shiny thing. A month before it was Claude Code. Now it's Clawdbot/Moltbot. YouTubers jumping ship. FOMO everywhere. The usual hype cycle.

I've been using n8n for a year. Started using Claude Code last month. Here's what actually happened:

My first Claude Code experiment: "Let's scrape LinkedIn posts from a few profiles." Connected my API key. Asked Claude to create a scraping skill. Auto-accepted the code. 

15 minutes and 3 profiles later → my $5 balance was gone.

Turns out, Claude decided to scrape comments too. They blew up the token count. A mistake I'd have spotted instantly in n8n's visual flow.

After that I switched to a subscription model. But it made me reflect on when to use what:

n8n = backend automation that runs without you
→ Runs on schedule, app events, form submissions 
→ Secure, can be self-hosted, scalable
→ When something breaks, you clearly see what, where and why
→ The only tool in this list where you can build customer support bots that survive prompt injection and handle RAG on 1000s of files

n8n might be losing popularity among AI enthusiasts. But it's gaining traction among actual businesses. Even slow enterprises consider it over Power Automate now.

Claude Code = personal productivity for tech and non-tech users
→ Reactive - you trigger it, it doesn't trigger itself 
→ Not visual - if it breaks, you might spend hours fixing it
→ Prone to logic mistakes. You give up control, so planning upfront becomes essential
→ Fantastic as a personal productivity system. I reference local files, create skills, connect apps. 100x more useful than ChatGPT and fills the gaps n8n couldn't fill
→ Great for workflows needing iteration - content creation, research, anything where you're actively involved. Skills, context and MCPs make it fit the natural flow better than n8n ever could

You CAN make it proactive by hosting an app. But then you're managing servers, infrastructure, security vulnerabilities yourself.

Clawdbot = tech playground
→ Too non-deterministic for practical business use
→ No brake pedal, lacks controls and observability
→ Security nightmare, can be prompt injected
→ Fun for enthusiasts, but "call a restaurant" or "send a message"? You'd spend less time doing it yourself

(Cheering for the creator though - he's also based in Vienna)

So, the right question?
"What problem am I actually trying to solve - and how much control do I need?"
Not "what cool thing can this tool do?" or "what's the most popular right now?"

Match the tool to the job. Don't invent a job for the tool.

AI Automation Architect | n8n Educator | AI Insiders (YouTube) | I teach the missing 50% of automation: Stability & Architecture

LinkedIn: "I built an autonomous agent swarm that runs my business." AI dev conference: "We took down 10 out of 11 AI agents."

Yesterday I attended AgentCon Vienna - a conference for developers building AI agents. 

The keynote from Dona Sarkar (Microsoft) was the best I've heard in years.

Some grounding truths she shared:

→ AI hype is mainly created by tech companies. They say AI will replace devs... and quietly list 100s of dev jobs on their websites. Just to fire them next year, I suppose.

→ AI is just tech. It needs to be programmed. Guess by whom? By developers. Without programming, AI is like an iPhone without apps. Capable but not transformational.

→ Agent projects fail frequently. Out of 11 agents, Dona took down 10. Most common reasons: 1) installing AI agents where automation would be enough 2) forcing agents into processes that are human by nature

→ One example of a bad and funnily the most requested AI agent: AI phone support. Reasoning - if a customer picks up the phone to call, they've probably already searched online and need a human. Sending an angry customer to AI may cost you that customer. (Curious what AI voice devs in my network think about this)

My take from other companies' talks: real use cases are surprisingly basic. No agent swarms. Predictability and transparency win. And these are companies with budgets, IT teams and time.

I left inspired and reassured that the world hasn't gone crazy as it might seem on social media, where AI agents seem to run on everyone else's server and do 100x the job for them.

Maybe one day we'll be there. But for now, I'll trust the builders who share what didn't work. That's how you find what does.

The next AgentCon events are in Stockholm and Zurich. If you're into AI and nearby, worth it just for the keynote.

In 2025, we were promised AI employees. What we got instead were research reports on why AI projects fail.

I delivered multiple AI and automation projects last year, and in this article I share why some of them brought real ROI while others were abandoned.

If you scrolled through your LinkedIn feed in 2025, you probably saw 100s of posts: "This AI agent replaced my entire marketing department!", "This AI

Open article: What 150+ Conversations and 20+ Implementations Taught Me About AI & Automation Projects by Nadia Privalikhina • 17 min read

What 150+ Conversations and 20+ Implementations Taught Me About AI & Automation Projects

You've bookmarked 15 n8n tutorials but haven't started one.
We're running a FREE 3-day challenge that fixes that and gets you from 'no n8n account' to 'working automation' by Friday.

Clear structure. Clear goals for each day. Clear deadlines. Only 30 min a day. And you'll not feel alone:
→ Day 1: Set up your account
→ Day 2: Learn n8n building blocks
→ Day 3: Build your first automation

This challenge is for you if:
✓ You're an AI consultant whose clients keep asking about n8n
✓ You've used other automation tools and want to switch
✓ You're a non-techie curious if automation is for you
✓ You're tired of bookmarking tutorials and ready to actually build something
No coding experience required.

And I'm not going to make you jump through hoops.
✗ You don't need to connect with me
✗ You don't need to comment "CHALLENGE"
✗ You don't need to send me a DM
(Though I'd appreciate a like or comment to help this post reach more people)

Just do 2 things:
1. Join our free community: https://lnkd.in/drsbwXGh
2. Show up to the kickoff call 13.01 at 7 PM CET to meet me, my cofounder and other n8n learners
Then set aside 30 minutes a day for 3 days.

The best time to start was when you bookmarked tutorial no.1. 
The second best time is tomorrow at 7 PM CET ;)

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