Use cases

What people build with n8n

Every pattern below maps to real workflows you can copy from the template library and adapt in minutes.

AI agents & RAG assistants

Chat-triggered agents with tools, memory and vector search over your own documents. Ship an internal assistant that can actually act, not just answer.

  • Support copilot over your docs
  • Meeting notes → CRM updates
  • Multi-agent research pipeline

IT Ops & SecOps

Turn runbooks into workflows: user onboarding/offboarding, alert triage, backup checks and incident enrichment across your stack.

  • Okta + Jira onboarding
  • Alert enrichment to Slack
  • Nightly infra health report

Sales & CRM

Enrich, score and route inbound leads in seconds, keep CRM records clean, and push pipeline digests to the team automatically.

  • Lead enrichment & scoring
  • HubSpot ↔ Sheets sync
  • Deal-stage Slack alerts

Marketing & content

Generate, review and publish content across channels; track campaigns and pipe every signal into one reporting sheet or warehouse.

  • Blog draft → review → CMS
  • Social repurposing pipeline
  • Ad spend daily report

Engineering & DevOps

Glue services without writing a microservice: webhooks, retries, queues, scheduled jobs and internal APIs with full execution logs.

  • GitHub PR automations
  • Deploy notifications
  • Cron ETL to Postgres

Support & operations

Classify tickets, auto-answer repetitive questions, escalate the rest, and sync every conversation to your knowledge base.

  • Ticket triage with AI
  • CSAT follow-ups
  • Refund workflow approvals
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