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Field Notes

Real projects, real problems, real solutions. No thought leadership.

How We Built a WhatsApp Bot for a Restaurant in 48 Hours

80+ WhatsApp messages a day, handled manually. We automated reservations, menu queries, and FAQ responses — 85% fully automatic.

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How We Turned 5 Google Sheets Into a Monday Morning Slack Digest

An e-commerce ops team was spending 2.5 hours every Monday on manual reporting. We automated it with n8n in 2.5 days.

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How We Built a Lead Qualification Bot in a Weekend

A Typeform webhook, 90 minutes of n8n work, and a scoring formula. By Monday morning, every new lead was automatically graded, routed, and sitting in the CRM.

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AI Chatbots for Small Business: What Actually Works in 2026

What works, real costs, and what to avoid when adding AI chat to your business.

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The Best Zapier Alternative for Agencies in 2026

n8n vs Make vs Zapier — honest comparison with real costs and when each makes sense.

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How to Integrate AI Into Your Business (Without a Tech Team)

5 practical starting points, real costs, and common mistakes for SME AI integration.

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10 Small Business Tasks You Should Automate Right Now

The 10 highest-ROI automation opportunities for SMEs, with tools and time savings for each.

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How to Automate Your Business: A Practical Guide for SME Owners

Where to start, which processes to pick, and which tools to use — without the jargon.

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How We Built an AI Inbox Triage System for a Busy Executive

A founder spending 2+ hours/day on email. We automated classification, routing & escalation with n8n + GPT-4o-mini.

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How We Automated Shopify Order Fulfilment for a 500-Order/Month Brand

A DTC brand was copy-pasting every Shopify order into their 3PL portal. We cut fulfilment lag from 6 hours to 10 minutes.

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Automating Invoice Chasing: How One Freelancer Recovered £8,000 in Late Payments

Late invoices were piling up and manual chasing was getting awkward. We built an n8n workflow that recovered £8,000 in 6 weeks — without a single uncomfortable phone call.

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Why Zapier Gets Expensive Fast (and What We Use Instead)

Zapier starts free but scales brutally. Here's the real cost breakdown for agencies — and why we switched our clients to n8n.

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How We Automated Invoice Chasing for a 50-Client Agency

An agency was manually emailing overdue invoices every week. We automated detection, personalised chase emails, and Slack alerts — 15% revenue recovered in month one.

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How We Built a Lead Qualification Bot That Books Calls Automatically

A B2B agency was jumping on discovery calls with unqualified leads. We built a bot that qualifies first and only books the good ones — saving 5+ hours a week.

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Why Your CRM and Stripe Don't Talk — and How We Fixed It in 48 Hours

A SaaS founder was copying payment data from Stripe into HubSpot every Monday morning. Two hours a week, every week. Here's the integration we built.

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How We Automated a Booking System in 3 Days

A spa owner was spending 3 hours a day managing WhatsApp messages and a paper calendar. We fixed it with n8n, a Telegram bot, and Google Sheets — no custom app required.

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