Workflow Automation
Make.com, Zapier and n8n scenarios built to survive contact with production.
Workflow platforms are excellent until a scenario matters. Then the things that were fine in a prototype start to hurt: no version control, tokens pasted into module bodies, an operations bill that scales with a loop nobody noticed, and a failure mode where the scenario quietly stops and nobody finds out for a week.
We build scenarios properly: filters and routers that express the real business rules, error handlers on the modules that can fail, and secrets in connections and variables rather than in the JSON.
And when a platform stops being the right answer, we can lift the logic out. We have built a runner that executes Make blueprint JSON natively (the same modules, the same expression language, the same routing) on infrastructure you control.
What you end up with
Scenarios that fail loudly
Error handlers, retry policy and alerting on the paths that can break, so a stopped scenario is a notification rather than a discovery.
Operations under control
Iterators, aggregators and filters arranged so work is done once per bundle instead of once per row, which is usually where a runaway bill comes from.
Secrets out of the blueprint
Hardcoded bearer tokens extracted into variables and connections, so a blueprint can be exported, shared or version-controlled without leaking credentials.
An exit route
Blueprint-compatible self-hosted execution (routers, iterators, aggregators and the full expression language) for when per-operation pricing stops adding up.
What actually lands
Shaped to the engagement, but this is the shelf it comes off.
- 01Scenario design, build and documentation on Make.com, Zapier or n8n
- 02Audit and rescue of existing scenarios: error handling, deduplication, cost
- 03Custom modules and API calls for services with no native connector
- 04Self-hosted blueprint execution with per-module run logs
- 05Scheduling, webhook triggers and background execution
- 06Team handover so your operators can maintain and extend the scenarios
Where this has shipped
Workflows, specifically
Zapier for breadth of connectors and simple linear automations. Make for anything with real branching, iteration or data transformation; its router and aggregator model is genuinely better for complex work. n8n when self-hosting, unlimited executions or code-level control matters more than connector count. Most businesses end up on Make for the complex flows and keep Zapier for the simple ones, which is a reasonable place to land.
Almost always a loop doing per-row work that could be batched, a polling trigger running far more often than the data changes, or a scenario iterating a full table when a filtered search would return three records. All three are fixable without changing what the scenario does, and the saving is usually immediate.
Yes, and it is a common way to start. The first pass is an audit: what runs, what it touches, where the credentials are, what happens when each step fails. That produces a list of what to fix now and what to leave alone, before anything is changed.
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Where this is applied
Tell us about the process that keeps costing you.
A 15-minute call is usually enough to say whether this is an automation, an integration, or something that should be built, and whether we are the right people for it.
What happens on the call
- 15 minutes, no deck
- We map the process on the call
- A written scope, or an honest no