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10 articles tagged Automation.

AI isn't taking the jobs, it's taking the boring bits

In today's post I'm looking at the AI jobs market through Anthropic's Economic Index and my own job board, and why the busywork is the part to hand over.

Automation · ai-at-work
What is n8n? A Beginner's Guide to Workflows, Pricing and Self-Hosting

In today's guide I'm taking a closer look at n8n, the workflow automation tool behind the price data on simracingcockpit.gg, and at the choice a beginner faces with it: pay for n8n Cloud, or host it yourself for free and look after the server. There's a first workflow built step by step, too, and a comparison with Zapier and Make.

Automation · n8n
How to Use AI for Market Research with Claude

I gave Claude a market researcher's brief and a fixed list of tools, and it came back with a 12-page sourced report on the sim racing hardware market. Every figure went through a script that checked it against its source, and when Gemini looked for the reported ones itself, it caught one that was wrong and led the run to Simucube's company accounts. The whole run is saved as one prompt for a quarterly re-run, and a capped headless test rebuilt the report unattended in 39 minutes.

claude-code · gemini
n8n MCP: How to Connect Claude Code to n8n and Use Its API Safely

In today's post I'm connecting Claude Code to n8n two ways: calling a tool you build behind an MCP Server Trigger, and managing the workflows themselves through n8n's public API. I ran both against my own self-hosted n8n, and tested two API calls that n8n lets through without a warning: one PUT deleted a node's credential, and another put a change live.

claude-code · mcp
How to Build a Competitor Price Monitoring Pipeline with n8n

I built an n8n workflow that normalises 375 products from three public Shopify stores and flags any price that has changed since the last run, modelled on the product scraper I run every day. On the way, all three stores refused my server with a 429, and workflow static data never saved from the editor. So I finished the build on responses fetched from my desk, with the last run kept in a file.

Automation · shopify
How to Make a PDF Report with Claude

In today's post I'm showing how I make a monthly PDF report in Claude from a CSV, and why I think it's a perfectly legitimate way to report, provided Claude checks every number against the file. A house-style Skill sets the look, and the outline is agreed before anything is built.

Claude · Automation
How to Make a Presentation with Claude

In today's post I'm sharing how I make presentations with Claude, a way of working that keeps my time on the data and my insight rather than on PowerPoint. Claude writes the storyline first and puts every number in one data file, Gemini draws the charts, and the same source builds both a PDF and an editable PowerPoint file. When next month's numbers arrive, the deck rebuilds in under three minutes.

claude-code · gemini
What is a Marketing Engineer (and do you need one)?

In today's post we're taking a closer look at the marketing engineer, the role Greg Isenberg reckons becomes tech's next big hire. The title may or may not stick, but the job is certainly real: I've been running the systems it describes for a year. Here's what it involves, what to build first, and what the sceptics get right.

Automation · AI agents
Infographics and articles that update themselves, built on free APIs

Once an article goes live, it starts to go stale, so I built The Daily Visual, a prototype site that rebuilds its charts, its data and the numbers in its sentences every morning from free public APIs. In today's post we're taking a closer look at how far that goes, what broke in its first month, and where I'd take it next.

claude-code · Automation
Complex ERP trade pricing on Shopify Plus B2B, native-first

We've put a global hardware distributor's ERP trade pricing live on Shopify Plus: about 70 hand-set price lists, with per-customer specials and volume breaks on top. In today's post we're taking a closer look at what native Shopify Plus carried, and the one gap in it we filled with a small first-party layer.

Automation · shopify-plus