I work as a development manager at a media company and discovered n8n about 3-4 years ago. Started using it to handle simple IT operations and employee onboarding workflows on a local server.
What happened next:
Eventually, my team started building more complex automations that actually solved business problems. We created data pipelines, connected different systems, and built dashboards that management actually uses. When AI APIs became popular, we added those into our workflows too.
The cool part is that n8n helped our department become more strategic instead of just taking orders from other teams. Now people come to us with ideas instead of just dumping requests.
My question:
I know this community has grown huge (congrats on 100k members!) and I see lots of posts about agency work and making money online. Nothing wrong with that at all.
But I’m curious about people using n8n in regular corporate jobs. Are you automating stuff at your current workplace? Has it changed how your department operates or helped you get recognition?
Would love to hear stories from other people who use n8n as an internal tool rather than a client service. What kind of workflows have you built and did it impact your career?
I’ve been running n8n at our logistics company for two years. Started with basic invoice processing, then connected our CRM to shipping and inventory systems. The game-changer was automating quarterly reports - what used to take three people two full days now runs overnight and delivers clean reports by morning. Management saw the impact right away - accurate data without delays or errors. My job evolved from system maintenance to designing solutions for operational problems. I focused on obvious pain points and tracked time savings. Now other departments come to us asking for workflow automation. It shifted my whole career from IT support to business process consulting.
Been using n8n at my marketing agency for 18 months. Honestly saved my butt when our team got downsized but workload stayed the same. Built workflows that pull social media metrics, generate weekly reports, and sync leads between platforms automatically. My boss noticed I was hitting deadlines easier and asked how - showed him the dashboards and now he wants me to automate other departments too. Definitely changed my role from just executing campaigns to optimizing processes.
I work in healthcare admin and n8n completely changed how we handle patient data. We’re talking thousands of appointments every month - staff used to manually update multiple systems every time someone rescheduled or cancelled. Built a workflow that automatically syncs our scheduling with billing, insurance verification, and reminder notifications. The game changer? Our annual audit went from weeks of data reconciliation down to just hours. Management noticed fast when error rates dropped and patient satisfaction jumped because reminders were hitting at the right times. Suddenly IT wasn’t just fixing tickets - we were actually solving problems. That credibility scored us budget approval to automate other clinical workflows too.