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Self-hosted n8n with branching, loops and custom nodes for the tools that have no integration — so your data and API keys never leave your infrastructure.
We build n8n and AI automations that run the copy-paste work your team does by hand — enrich a lead, classify a ticket, scrape a source and act on it. The engineering that matters is not the happy path; it is what happens when a step fails.
A workflow that fails silently is worse than no automation — you trust it, it stops, and nobody notices for a week. We build the retries, dead-letter handling and alerting that make an automation something you can actually forget about, which is the entire point of building one.
Self-hosted n8n with branching, loops and custom nodes for the tools that have no integration — so your data and API keys never leave your infrastructure.
We drop AI in where it earns its keep — classifying, summarising, drafting, extracting — and keep the deterministic steps deterministic, using small cheap models where a small model is enough.
Pull data from a site with no API, enrich it, and act on it — post to Slack, update the CRM, kick off the next step — as one reliable pipeline.
Retries with backoff, dead-letter queues for the runs that still fail, and alerts with the real error — so a 2am break wakes a monitor, not a customer.
We trace the manual process step by step, find where AI actually helps, and give a fixed estimate before any build.
We build the automation in a live environment, connect your tools, and test it against real runs each week — including the failure cases.
Retries, alerting, monitoring and readable workflows your team can edit — plus the run cost laid out and support after launch.
| Duskel (n8n) | DIY in-house | Zapier / Make | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost at scale | A flat self-hosted server bill — volume does not change it | Server bill plus the staff time to build and babysit it | Per-task pricing that climbs the more it runs — you are taxed for succeeding |
| Reliability & error handling | Retries with backoff, dead-letter handling and real alerts we build in | As good as the time someone had to build it — usually the happy path only | Basic retries; failures often go quiet until you notice the gap |
| Custom logic | Branching, loops and custom code nodes for anything the tools choke on | Whatever you can build, if you have the engineering hours | Fine until you hit a case the drag-and-drop cannot express, then a wall |
| Data ownership | Self-hosted — your data and API keys stay on your infrastructure | Yours, on your infrastructure | Routed through their cloud, on their terms and their retention |
| Maintenance | We build it readable and hand it over, or watch it on a retainer | Falls on your team, forever, alongside their real work | They maintain the platform; you maintain every workflow inside it |
One clear chain — a trigger, a few steps, an action — built self-hosted with retries and alerting so it holds up. The honest way to test whether automation earns its keep for you.
Several connected workflows with AI steps, custom nodes and monitoring, built and maintained as your operations grow. For teams automating a real slice of how they run.
Automation across many tools and edge cases, with custom integrations for the systems that have no node, on a retainer. For when the automation is core infrastructure, not a nice-to-have.
Typical ranges, not a fixed menu — the failure cases are where the real work hides. You get a fixed quote before any build.
The copy-paste jobs. The "when a form comes in, check the CRM, enrich it, post to Slack, then email the rep" chains that a person does forty times a day. We wire those into n8n with AI where it earns its keep — classifying, summarising, drafting — and leave the deterministic steps deterministic.
n8n is self-hostable, so your data and API keys stay on your infrastructure, and there is no per-task pricing that punishes you for scaling. It handles branching, loops and custom code that the drag-and-drop tools choke on. When Zapier is genuinely the better fit, we will say so.
It fails loudly, not silently. We build retries with backoff, dead-letter handling for the runs that still fail, and alerts to Slack or email with the actual error — not a generic "workflow failed." An automation you cannot trust is worse than doing it by hand.
Usually yes. If there is an API we build a custom node against it; if there is only a website, we drive it with a scraper. Most "there is no integration for that" problems are a few hours of custom code away from being solved.
Self-hosted n8n is a small monthly server bill — often under the price of one seat of the SaaS alternatives. The AI steps cost per call, which we keep cheap by using small models where a small model is enough. We lay the run cost out before you commit.
Self-hosted, almost always, and it is why we reach for n8n in the first place. On your own server your data and API keys never leave your infrastructure, and you pay a flat bill instead of per-execution pricing that punishes you for scaling. n8n Cloud is fine for a quick trial, but for anything you rely on, self-hosted wins on both cost and control — and we set it up so you are not the one babysitting it.
Yes, and it is a common reason people call. We map what your existing Zaps or scenarios actually do — including the quiet edge cases nobody documented — rebuild them in self-hosted n8n with proper error handling, and run both side by side until the new one is proven before we switch you over. You usually come out with lower running costs and automations that fail loudly instead of silently.
Self-hosting is the first answer — your credentials and data stay on your infrastructure rather than passing through a third-party cloud. Beyond that we store API keys in n8n's encrypted credential store, scope each integration to only what it needs, and keep the instance behind your own auth and network rules. An automation touches a lot of systems, so we treat its access like any other privileged service.
Yes. Automations break when the tools underneath them change — an API deprecates a field, a site moves a button, a service rotates a token. A retainer means we watch the alerts, fix the breakages, and adjust workflows as your process shifts, so you are not the one debugging n8n at 2am. If you would rather own it fully, we hand over readable workflows and documentation and step back — no lock-in.
It depends on volume, but the shape is simple: Zapier and Make charge per task or per operation, so a workflow that fires thousands of times a month gets expensive fast. Self-hosted n8n runs those same executions on a flat server bill — often less than a single mid-tier SaaS seat — no matter how many times they fire. The more an automation runs, the more the maths tips toward self-hosting, and we lay the actual numbers out before you commit.
Tell us the workflow. We will scope an automation that runs it — and tells you when it breaks.
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