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n8n for AI

n8n is a visual automation tool you can run on your own machine. You wire together nodes — a trigger, a few steps, an AI agent — into a workflow that does a job for you, on repeat. This is a plain-language tour: why you'd own your automation instead of renting it, where it runs and who holds your data, how the node canvas works, the AI Agent node that uses tools and remembers, and how to make an agent answer from your own documents. Every screen is drawn, so it stays clear no matter which week n8n ships an update.

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Course lessons

Why n8n?

Free, open-source, self-hostable, and agent-first — why you'd own your automation instead of renting it.

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Cloud or self-host?

Where your workflow runs, and who holds the data — the one choice that shapes everything else.

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Nodes & workflows

Your automation is a diagram — nodes wired on a canvas, started by a trigger, with data flowing through.

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The AI Agent node

A node you give a goal, not steps — with a model, tools, and a memory attached.

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Chat with your data

Point an agent at your own documents so it answers from them — grounded, with a citation.

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Putting it together

Five ideas, one tool — pull the whole picture of an agent-first automation together.

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