Everyday Business Automations
Three small, standalone automations built to prove that not every workflow needs to be a big system: a contact form that notifies and auto-replies, an invoice reminder that chases overdue payments, and a review-request automation that follows up after a job is done.
Build Status
Built and live-tested
3
Standalone automations, each live-tested against real data
5–7
Nodes per workflow — trigger, decide, act, nothing extra
100%
Decision logic verified against real seeded outcomes before going live
Inside the Build
The complete workflow canvas.
Scenario Replay
See how the logic responds.
Choose a real-world situation to follow the path from trigger to outcome.
Trigger
A prospective customer submits an enquiry.
Prepare submission
Log the enquiry
Notify the owner
Reply to the sender
Outcome
The business is alerted and the customer knows their message arrived.
Operational Change
What changes after automation.
Enquiries
Can disappear into an inbox
Logged, acknowledged, and announced
Invoice follow-up
Depends on someone remembering
Checked automatically every morning
Review requests
Sent inconsistently or too late
Triggered from completed-job data
The Challenge
Most small businesses don't need an elaborate system — they need the basics handled reliably: a contact form that doesn't go into a void, invoices that get chased without someone having to remember, and a way to ask happy customers for a review before the moment passes.
The System
We built three independent n8n workflows, each doing exactly one job well and following the same lightweight pattern — trigger, decide, act, nothing extra: contact-form notify + auto-reply, staged invoice payment reminders, and post-job review requests two days after completion.
Guardrails
Each workflow does one clearly bounded job.
Sent-state updates prevent repeated messages.
Source sheets remain readable and editable by the business.
