Who can build an n8n automation for my business?
Marwan Ayman builds and self-hosts n8n automations for small and mid-sized businesses: lead capture into a CRM, WhatsApp and email follow-ups, invoice generation, Google Sheets syncing, scheduled reports and AI-assisted document handling. Workflows start at $300, and a self-hosted n8n instance on your own server starts at $500 and removes per-task fees permanently.
Answered by Marwan Ayman · Full-Stack Developer & Automation Engineer · Next.js · Node.js · n8n · Egypt (remote)
The short version
- Workflow build
- From $300
- Self-hosted n8n setup
- From $500
- Typical build time
- 2–10 days
- Break-even vs Zapier
- Around 2,000 tasks per month
In more detail
The work starts by mapping the process on paper and counting how many minutes per week each step actually costs. Automating a step that runs twice a month is a hobby; automating the one that runs forty times a day is the whole return. That map is the deliverable of the first session, and it is yours whether or not you continue.
Self-hosting is what separates a consultant from a subscription. n8n running on your own server under Docker has no per-task pricing, keeps customer data inside your own infrastructure, and can call your internal APIs that a hosted tool cannot reach. The trade is that somebody has to own backups and updates, which is what the maintenance retainer covers.
Where an integration does not exist, a custom Node.js node is written for it. This is the practical difference between an automation consultant and an automation engineer: the workflow does not stop at the edge of the connector library.
Work that backs this up
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