Why
Onboarding new hires involved a dozen manual steps across HR, IT, and Slack. The newsletter team was also reading every news feed by hand. Both were obvious automation candidates.
All work
Automation · 2024
n8n Workflows
Employee onboarding pipelines and newsletter automation with AI-assisted summarisation. Self-hosted n8n with custom nodes and AI-powered routing.
Internal & personal
- Client
- Internal & personal
- Role
- Solo
- Duration
- Ongoing
- Year
- 2024
- Onboarding workflow
- Newsletter pipeline
- Custom nodes
Deliverables
Build
Self-hosted n8n running workflows that fan out provisioning tasks on Day 1 and pull/summarise articles for the weekly newsletter using OpenAI. Custom nodes wrap the company-internal API. Logging and error routing keep operators in the loop without burying them.
Outcomes
- Onboarding from days to hours
- Newsletter triage automated
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