n8n + AI: Practical Automation

What You'll Learn

n8n is a self-hosted workflow tool. It connects to APIs, databases, webhooks, and AI models without locking your data inside someone else's platform. This course shows you how to use it — starting from installation, ending at production workflows you actually run.

• The basics — Triggers, nodes, and connections. How to think about workflows before you build them. What makes n8n different from hosted alternatives.
• AI integration — n8n has native AI nodes. You can connect to Claude, GPT, or a local model and route data through them as part of a larger flow. This module shows you when that's useful and when it isn't.
• Real workflows — Not toy examples. A site health monitor that runs every six hours and pings Telegram if something breaks. A contact form pipeline that routes submissions to a notification channel. Patterns you can lift and adapt.
• n8n alongside Claude Code — These tools aren't competitors. n8n is good at scheduled, event-driven, multi-step automation. Claude Code is good at reasoning, writing, and acting on unstructured information. The best systems use both.

Every workflow described here exists and runs. The site health monitor has been running for months. The contact form pipeline handles real submissions. This isn't theory.

Time commitment: About 2–3 hours total. Module 1 is free. The rest require access.