Automation audit: a map of your tools and the manual handoffs quietly costing you hours every week
Productized · 1–3 Week Delivery
Workflow Automation & Systems Integration
n8n is the connective tissue, not the CRM. We wire your CRM, ERP, inbox, Stripe, and Slack together, then automate the handoffs that eat your team's day — self-hosted on Railway, owned by you.
1–3 weeks $5k–$15k
Limited slots · First-cohort pricing · Your competitors are already automating
Let's be precise about what n8n is, because the internet gets this wrong: n8n is a workflow automation engine — a visual way to connect systems, listen for triggers, and run logic between them. It is not a CRM, and you should not try to build your system of record inside it.
What n8n is exceptional at is the part nobody enjoys doing by hand: a lead hits a form, gets enriched, de-duped against your CRM, routed to the right owner, logged, and announced in Slack — automatically, in seconds, every time. A Stripe payment fires a fulfillment task. A closed deal syncs to NetSuite and kicks off onboarding. That's the work we automate.
If you also need a CRM, we'll stand you up on the right one — GoHighLevel for sales-and- marketing teams who want it turnkey, your existing HubSpot / Salesforce / NetSuite, or a homegrown Postgres-backed stack you fully own — and then wire n8n around it so everything talks. We run this exact stack for 9o4t Inc ourselves: live n8n instances, production Postgres, active email ingestion. We sell what we ship.
Here's the part that should make you move: those manual handoffs aren't free. They're paid for every week in your team's hours and in the leads that slip through the cracks while a human is busy copy-pasting. Your competitors are already automating this. Every week you wait is money left on the table.
Deliverables
What You Get
- Self-hosted n8n instance provisioned on Railway — the automation hub you own outright
- Integrations wiring your CRM, ERP, inbox, Stripe, calendar, docs, and Slack together
- Trigger-based automations: lead-in → enrich → de-dupe → route → notify → log, with no human in the loop
- Optional CRM stand-up — GoHighLevel onboarding, or a homegrown Postgres CRM you own
- Data hygiene workflows: enrichment, de-duplication, and field normalization
- A documented runbook plus handoff training so your team can extend it
- 30 days of post-delivery support included
Why 9o4t
n8n Is the Glue, Not the CRM
We don't sell you a fantasy 'CRM built inside n8n.' We use n8n for what it's best at — integration and automation — and pair it with a real system of record (yours or one we stand up). Honest architecture that won't collapse at scale.
We Run This Stack Ourselves
Most automation consultants live in Zapier or n8n Cloud. We self-host n8n (local + cloud), manage production Postgres databases, and run live email-ingestion pipelines. You're buying a system we demo from our own screens.
CRM-Agnostic by Design
GoHighLevel, HubSpot, Salesforce, NetSuite, or homegrown — we integrate whatever you've got or recommend the right fit. No religious wars, no rip-and-replace. The automation layer sits on top and connects them all.
Own It, Don't Rent It
A $20–$50/month Railway bill replaces per-task Zapier fees that balloon with volume. Your workflows, data, and logic live in infrastructure you control — exportable, backable-up, no per-seat surprise pricing.
Fit Check
Ideal For
- B2B teams ($1M–$50M) drowning in copy-paste handoffs between tools that don't talk to each other
- Companies paying escalating Zapier task fees who want to own their automation layer
- Operators who need lead capture, enrichment, routing, and notification to run themselves
- Teams who need a CRM stood up (GoHighLevel or homegrown) and wired into the rest of the stack
- Anyone whose CRM, ERP, Stripe, and inbox each live on their own island
- Founders who want one integration layer that talks to NetSuite, Stripe, and Slack on day one
FAQ
Is n8n a CRM?
No — and we won't pretend otherwise. n8n is a workflow automation engine. It connects systems and runs logic between them. We use it as the integration and automation layer that sits on top of a real CRM (GoHighLevel, HubSpot, Salesforce, NetSuite, or a homegrown Postgres stack). If you need a CRM, we'll stand up the right one and wire n8n around it.
Then what do I actually get from an n8n project?
Automation of the manual handoffs that eat your team's time: lead capture and enrichment, de-duplication, owner routing, stage-change email sequences, Stripe-to-fulfillment triggers, CRM-to-ERP sync, Slack and WhatsApp alerts, and document generation. Anything that today is 'someone copies this from tool A into tool B.'
What's the true total cost of ownership?
One-time build: $5,000 to $15,000 depending on the number of integrations and workflow complexity. Ongoing: roughly $20 to $50 per month for Railway hosting, regardless of how many tasks run. Compare to Zapier or Make, where per-task pricing climbs as your volume grows.
Can it integrate with NetSuite, Stripe, QuickBooks, Slack, and GoHighLevel?
Yes. n8n has 400+ native integrations plus webhook and REST support for everything else. Common integrations we ship: NetSuite, Salesforce, HubSpot, GoHighLevel, Stripe, QuickBooks, Slack, WhatsApp, Gmail, Outlook, LinkedIn, calendar tools, and generic REST APIs.
Do you set up the CRM too, or only the automation?
Either. Many clients keep their current CRM and just want the automation layer. Others want us to stand up GoHighLevel (turnkey, lower cost, fewer plugins) or a homegrown Postgres-backed CRM they own, then automate around it. We scope both paths in the discovery call.
Who maintains it after delivery?
We document everything and train your team during handoff so you can maintain and extend it in-house. If you'd rather not, we offer an ongoing retainer at $500–$1,500/month for monitoring, new automations, and on-call support.
Don't Wait
Every Week You Wait Is Money Left on the Table.
Your competitors are already automating. David Cullum scaled a telecom brokerage from $50M to $150M — and he still ships code. Lock in first-cohort pricing on the $999 AI Assessment before the slots are gone.
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