If you've been building with n8n for a few months and you're hitting walls... 

Downloading templates that don't work, stuck figuring out how to tie everything together... 

Whether you're trying to automate your own business or land clients, the problem is the same. 

Nobody taught you diagnosis.

I've generated $25M+ in client revenue over 8 years building automations for e-commerce brands and service businesses.

Here's what I learned: 

The people who win don't have better technical skills. 

They have better diagnosis skills.

They can walk into any business, spot the highest-leverage automation opportunity in 15 minutes, and explain why it matters in language the owner understands. 

Commodity technicians charge $500 per project. 

AI Operators charge $5K-$50K because they diagnose problems other consultants can't even see.

In 90 days, I turn you into an AI Operator. 

Not just someone who follows tutorials. 

Someone who can diagnose what actually needs automating, design solutions that work, implement them with confidence, and charge premium rates. 

Whether you're automating your own business or building a profitable agency.

Kevin (63, never coded): 
Eliminated 20 hours of manual work per week. Took content workflows from 7 days to 7 minutes.

Tim (former agency owner): 
Booked 8 demos his first month. Now closing $5K-$10K deals with eight-figure ecom brands.

Stephen (video editor, zero background): 
Landed a client in Week 3.

AJ Vaynerchuk (co-built VaynerMedia to $130M): 
Joined to become "dangerous enough to lead automation strategy."

The program is limited to 20 people per cohort. 

Direct access to me, not support tickets. 

Get your first automation deployed in 30 days or full refund.

Become an AI Operator and join my n8n Mentorship here: 
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Claude Code + Firecrawl /agent is going to be disgusting.

Imagine: "Research all competitors in this space and build me a comparison spreadsheet."

And it just... does it. 

Searches the web, scrapes the data, exports it.

Here's what's happening:

Firecrawl just released /agent - and it's unlike any scraping tool I've used before.

You don't give it URLs. 

You don't write selectors. 

You don't maintain brittle scripts that break every time a site updates.

You just describe what data you want in plain English and it figures out the rest.

Under the hood, /agent searches the web for relevant sources, navigates to the right pages, clicks through multi-step flows, handles pagination, and returns clean structured JSON.

One prompt. That's it.

I tested it with: "Find YC W24 dev tool companies, get their founders, contact emails, and employee count."

It searched YC companies, filtered for dev tools, visited each site, pulled founder info and headcount. 

It returned structured data ready for a CRM. 

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The use cases for automation builders are huge - lead generation, competitive intel, dataset curation, product research.

And here's where it gets really interesting: n8n and Claude MCP integrations are coming soon.

Imagine an n8n workflow where a prompt goes in, /agent runs, and structured data pipes straight into your CRM or Google Sheet. 

Weeks of scraping work replaced by one node.

With Claude MCP support, you'll be able to say "Research the top 10 competitors, scrape their pricing pages, and build me a comparison doc" - and Claude will search, Firecrawl will scrape, Claude will synthesize. 

All from one conversation.

This is what agentic AI is supposed to look like.

/agent is live now in research preview with API access, Python/Node SDKs, and a playground to test immediately.

If you build automations, this is worth watching closely.

Tom Crawshaw

I Turn Non-Technical CEOs & Agency Owners Into AI Operators in 90 Days | n8n Mentorship | Generated $25M+ for Clients

I never thought I'd say this, but...

An open source model just matched Claude Opus 4.5 at 8x lower cost! 

Kimi K2.5 dropped from Moonshot AI and I had to double check the pricing.

$0.60 per million input tokens vs $5 for Opus 4.5.

$3 output vs $25.

It's topping DesignArena overall, beating Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro on benchmarks. 

76.8% on SWE-bench for coding. On agentic tasks, only OpenAI and Anthropic rank higher.

Fully open source, and handles images and video.

I've heard whispers about the gap between open and closed source was shrinking fast, just didn't expect it to close this quickly.

If you're running automations at scale and still paying frontier prices, you should probably test this. 

The weights are sitting there on Huggingface. You can self-host it. Fine-tune it and own it.

Yes, there's more technical setup, but you can literally get Claude to walk you though the entire setup.

Or just grab an API key and use it in CLI tools like Opencode or Blackbox. 

Anthropic and OpenAI still have edges in some areas. But the pricing moat? 

That's gone.

I hit 'auto-fix', made coffee, came back to a working agent.
And I’m not even joking, I’ve got video evidence.

Building AI agents is 20 minutes of fun.
Debugging is 4 hours of hell.

Vellum flips that.

Describe what you want in plain English.
It builds the workflow.
Something breaks? Hit auto-fix.
It loops until everything works.

No JSON.
No node configs.
No Googling error messages at 11pm.

I tested it on a conference speaker research agent.

It scrapes speakers from any event URL.
Researches their LinkedIn, Twitter, content.
Gives you personalized conversation starters.

Start to finish: 20 minutes.

Same build in n8n would've taken me half a day.

Want the exact prompt and full video walkthrough?

1 - Connect with me 
2 - Like + comment "FIX" and I'll send the link to your inbox.

For the last two years, n8n has been my main automation tool.  This is everything I know...

Last year I posted "The Last n8n Guide You'll Ever Need."

95,000 impressions. 2,500 comments.

I just rewrote the whole thing for 2026.

But first, let me address something.

Claude Code is everywhere right now. 

And it's a great tool, I use it myself.

But there's a key difference most people miss.

Claude Code is powerful. 

But you're staring at a terminal, trusting the code works.

n8n shows you everything. 

Data flows node to node. 

You see exactly what's happening.

For most people, that visual feedback is what makes automation finally click.

Here's what's inside the 2026 edition:

→ The only 12 nodes you need (out of 400+)
→ The questions to answer BEFORE you open n8n
→ How to use Claude to draft your workflows automatically
→ Hidden features that save hours of debugging
→ 5 mistakes that waste weeks for beginners
→ A week-by-week path to building real automations
→ My AI debug method that solves 90% of errors in minutes

8 years of building automations. $25M in client revenue.

Condensed into one guide. 

No paywall. No course. No catch.

1 - Connect with me 

2 - Comment "n8n" and I'll send the doc to your DM's.

Deploy n8n in 5 minutes for $6/month.

Unlimited workflows.
Unlimited executions.
No Docker knowledge needed.

Self-hosting used to be a nightmare.

Configuring servers. Wrestling with Docker. Spending an entire weekend on setup.

That's why most people avoided it.

But one-click installers changed everything.

Now you can go from zero to a live n8n instance in under 5 minutes.

Here's what you get:
- Unlimited executions (no caps)
- Full control over your data
- 70% cheaper than Cloud pricing
- One-click upgrades if you scale

I put together a step-by-step guide that walks you through the complete setup.

Want it?

1 - Connect with me
2-  Comment "HOST" and I'll DM it to you (free, no email bs).

I cancelled my ChatGPT subscription after 3 years.

$20/month for a tab I'd open, get disappointed by, and close again.

I've been using Claude for all my actual work. 

Code. Copy. Building n8n workflows for clients. 

Anything that matters.

But I kept paying. 

Because what if they fixed it? 

What if the next update was the one?

It never was.

Every few weeks I'd test it again. 

Ask it to write something.

Get back the same lifeless, corporate, "certainly I'd be happy to help you with that" energy. 

The kind of copy that sounds like it was written by someone who's never had a real conversation in their life.

Meanwhile the internet keeps telling me ChatGPT is the best. OpenAI keeps shipping updates. Sam Altman keeps posting.

So I thought - let me actually test this properly. 

Same prompts. Same use cases. Head to head.

Images. Code. Copy. Voice input.

I wanted to be wrong. 

I wanted the $240/year I'd been paying to make sense.

It didn't.

One of these companies is sprinting to ship features. 

The other is focused on making the product actually work.

I recorded the whole comparison - exact prompts, side-by-side outputs, and what I'd tell anyone still paying for ChatGPT in 2025.

Full video link in the first comment below. 
👇

Add these 5 AI skills and you'll do the work of entire teams in 2026.

Skill 1 turns 3-hour research into 5-minute tasks.

Skills 3 & 5 are the most ignored and the most valuable.

Learning tools like Claude Code and n8n is cool and all...

But tools alone won't make you valuable.

What makes you valuable is knowing how to plug them into your actual workflow.

Knowing what's worth automating in the first place.

And knowing how to build something that doesn't fall apart the second real data hits it.

That last part is where most people get stuck.

They build a demo that works perfectly with 5 test leads.

Then 500 real leads come through and the whole thing breaks.

I've watched this happen over and over again.

The people who don't have this problem all have the same 5 skills.

Not 50. Just 5.

1. AI-Assisted Research
2. Process Diagnosis
3. Workflow Architecture
4. AI Image & Video Creation
5. AI Copywriting

I filmed a full breakdown of each one.

What they are.

Why they matter.

And exactly how I'd learn them if I was starting from zero today.

I also included my 4-step checklist for figuring out what's actually worth automating vs. what's a complete waste of your time.

1 - Connect with me 
2 - Comment "SKILLS" and I'll DM you the video

Wish you could skip the n8n learning curve?

These 7 Claude skills are the closest thing to a shortcut I've found...

And they're free and take only 5 minutes to set up.

Here's how:

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Business Coaching - Peter Shallard

Fit Pro University - Incubator

The Foundation - Software Entrepreneurship

Let's Get Social

University of Leeds

Bingley Grammar 6th Form

TCD Capital

Email Alchemy

PT Mastermind

The Rise-Up Academy

Initi8 Marketing

The Foundation

Discover Social Media

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I was mass-deleting n8n nodes out of frustration when I realized the problem wasn't me. If you've got the n8n MCP server set up, you know how this goe

These 7 free Claude Skills turn Claude into a legit n8n architect

47 browser tabs open.

Three half-finished projects.

A course you bought in October you haven't touched.

You're not behind. You're scattered.

Wrote an article about this 👇

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You've watched the tutorials, you've read the docs, but you're still stuck.

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This is everything I know about n8n:

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