Stop Doing the
Same Thing Twice
We build bulletproof automations that connect your tools, eliminate repetitive work, and run reliably in the background. Powered by n8n - self-hosted, cost-predictable, and fully yours.
Manual Work Is Eating Your Team Alive
Your team spends hours every week on tasks that should take seconds. Copy-pasting between tools, manually sending follow-ups, updating spreadsheets, chasing status updates. It's not just slow - it's expensive.
Self-Hosted n8n.
No Per-Task Pricing.
Unlike Zapier, n8n runs on your infrastructure. No per-task billing that scales out of control. Full data control, predictable costs.
Error Handling
Built In.
We don't just connect A to B. Every workflow has retries, error handling, monitoring, and alerts. Your automation doesn't silently break at 3am.
Connect
Everything.
APIs, webhooks, databases, email, Slack, CRMs - if it has an endpoint, we can automate it. One platform, unlimited connections.
Sound Familiar?
Here's how a typical discovery call sounds with our founder.
Business Owner
Every time we get a new lead from our website, someone has to manually add it to HubSpot, send a welcome email, notify the sales team on Slack, and create a task in Asana. It takes fifteen minutes per lead.
Blackbird Labs
And I bet when things get busy, some of those steps get skipped - leads sit in a form submission for hours, or the Slack notification never goes out. How many leads come in per day?
Business Owner
Around twenty to thirty. It's manageable now, but we're growing and I can see it breaking soon. We tried Zapier but the costs went through the roof once we added all the steps.
Blackbird Labs
Yeah, Zapier's per-task pricing stacks up fast when you're chaining five or six actions per lead. We'd set you up on n8n - self-hosted, so you pay for the server, not the usage. That same workflow would cost a fraction of what you're paying now.
Business Owner
Can it handle more complex logic? Like if a lead comes from a specific campaign, route them to a different sales rep and use a different email sequence?
Blackbird Labs
Absolutely. n8n has conditional branching, so we can build logic like 'if source is Google Ads and deal value is over ten thousand, route to the senior rep and trigger the enterprise sequence.' It handles the complexity that Zapier makes painful.
Business Owner
What happens if something breaks at 2am?
Blackbird Labs
Every workflow we build has error handling and retry logic baked in. If something fails, you get a Slack alert with exactly what went wrong. We also set up a monitoring dashboard so you can see execution health at a glance. No more silent failures.
Business Owner
Our accounts team processes about two hundred invoices a month. They manually check each one against the PO, enter it into Xero, and file the PDF. It takes three days every month.
Blackbird Labs
Three days of manual data entry is exactly what automation was made for. We'd build a workflow that scans incoming invoices - whether they come via email or upload - extracts the key data, matches it to your POs, and pushes it straight into Xero.
Business Owner
What about invoices that don't match? We get pricing discrepancies pretty often.
Blackbird Labs
The workflow flags those automatically. If the invoice total doesn't match the PO within a tolerance you set, it routes to your accounts team for manual review with both documents side by side. Only the exceptions need human attention.
Business Owner
We get invoices in every format - PDF, Word, even photos of paper invoices sometimes.
Blackbird Labs
That's fine. We use OCR for extraction, so it handles PDFs, images, and scanned documents. For structured formats like EDI or CSV, we parse those directly. The system learns your vendor formats over time and gets more accurate.
Business Owner
How much time would this actually save?
Blackbird Labs
Based on similar setups, you're looking at eighty to ninety percent reduction in processing time. Those three days become half a day - and that's just the exception handling your team still reviews manually.
Business Owner
Every Friday my team spends four hours pulling data from different tools and building client reports. We've got thirty clients and each one gets a custom PDF. It's killing us.
Blackbird Labs
Thirty custom reports every week is brutal. Let me guess - you pull from Google Analytics, ad platforms, maybe a CRM, paste into a template, screenshot some charts, and email it out?
Business Owner
Exactly that. And if a client asks for a change to their report format, it takes ages to update the template.
Blackbird Labs
We'd automate the entire pipeline. Data pulls happen automatically on Friday morning, reports generate using each client's custom template, and they land in your inbox for a quick review before sending. Your team would go from four hours to fifteen minutes of review time.
Business Owner
Can clients have different metrics? Some care about SEO, others about paid ads.
Blackbird Labs
Each client gets their own report config - which data sources, which metrics, which visualisations. We build it once, and the automation handles the rest every week. Adding a new metric is a five-minute config change, not a template rebuild.
Business Owner
What about white-labelling? Some of our reseller clients need reports in their branding.
Blackbird Labs
Fully supported. Each report can have custom logos, colours, and domains. Your reseller clients would never know it's automated - it looks like a premium hand-crafted report.
Automations That Run Your Operations
Every automation we build is production-grade - monitored, documented, and designed to scale with your business.
Lead Routing
Automatically route leads to the right rep based on geography, deal size, or source.
CRM Syncs
Keep HubSpot, Salesforce, or your custom CRM in sync with every other tool in your stack.
Reporting Pipelines
Pull data from multiple sources, transform it, and push it to dashboards - automatically, every day.
Data Enrichment
Enrich leads and contacts with third-party data as they enter your system.
Onboarding Sequences
Trigger welcome emails, Slack invites, tool access, and task creation when a new client or employee joins.
Invoice Processing
Extract data from invoices, match to POs, and push to accounting software - no manual entry.
How We Build It
Four steps from idea to live product. Clear timelines, real progress every week, no surprises.
Discovery
Deep dive into your operations, workflows, and pain points. We map what exists, what's broken, and what to build first.
1–2 weeksDesign
Clickable prototypes you can share and test with your team. We iterate until it feels right before writing a single line of code.
2–4 weeksDevelop
Real progress every week with clear updates. We build, test, and integrate - with error handling and monitoring baked in.
3–6 weeksDeliver
Smooth handover, live support, and ongoing improvements. We don't just ship and disappear - we stick around to make it better.
OngoingCommon Questions
Everything you need to know about working with Labs.
Why n8n instead of Zapier?
What can be automated?
How do you monitor automations?
Can you migrate us from Zapier?
What happens if something breaks?
Simple, transparent pricing.
No hidden fees. No long-term contracts. Just results.
Automation Starter Audit
We'll audit your current workflows and show you where automation can save the most time.
- Automation opportunity scan
- n8n + AI workflow examples
- Quick-win implementation map
Free
Book a callAutomation Accelerator
We'll design and launch 4 production-ready automations, train your team, and hand over the playbook.
- Company-wide automation workshop
- Access to n8n Expert Partners (Slack + syncs)
- Up to 4 automations - built for you
- Hands-on training through real builds
- Documentation and Loom walkthroughs
$5,000
Get started nowCustom
A dedicated automation team to scale and maintain your systems long-term.
- Dedicated experts
- Continuous workflow builds
- Ongoing Slack support
- Tailored roadmap + maintenance