Master 80% of n8n in 59 Mins - Free Course
Building real workflows from scratch - from competitor monitoring to AI agents. Here's everything you need to master the most powerful workflow automation tool
Hey, just recently, I sat with Aakash Gupta to discuss n8n - the best no-code agentic framework. During our 59-minute conversation, I demonstrated how to build from scratch:
an LLM workflow
an AI agent (low autonomy)
an autonomous AI agent
We also discussed:
Building multi-agent systems
How to (ethically) hack the free n8n version from Hostinger
Best practices and common mistakes
The recording is 100% free. n8n will help you:
Build a deep intuition for AI agents and multi-agent systems without coding.
Automate your repetitive tasks (market research, product discovery, SEO, etc.).
Integrate with virtually any system (1,000+ integrations)
Demonstrate an AI PM portfolio with RAG, AI agents, and multi-agent systems.
Implement a backend or background jobs for your vibe-engineered products.
You can watch it for free on YouTube:
Some of the takeaways summarized by Aakash:
n8n combines traditional workflow automation AND AI agent building in one platform. Makes it more powerful than Zapier or Make for complex automation needs.
Real use cases span from simple business workflows to chatbots, competitor monitoring, multi-agent research systems, and inbox workers. Sky is the limit.
Pawel's competitor monitoring workflow costs $1-2/week using the FREE version of n8n. Just needs Perplexity API and OpenAI credits. Enterprise tools charge $500+/month.
Pin your data during development. n8n caches API responses so you don't burn credits while testing workflows. Click the pin icon and work with cached data.
n8n automatically loops through items. No for-loops needed. When you connect a node with 6 items, n8n repeats the action 6 times automatically.
Compress context before sending to LLMs. Pawel cuts 70% of tokens by extracting only summary content and citation URLs, ignoring irrelevant snippets.
Use ChatGPT to write n8n code snippets. Pawel never writes code blocks himself. Just screenshots data and asks GPT "how do I compress this?"
Traditional workflows beat AI agents for predictable tasks. Workflows save tokens and rarely hallucinate. Agents are flexible but use more tokens and make mistakes.
Set GPT reasoning effort to "low" for simple tasks. When you just need formatting or summarization, low reasoning effort saves tokens significantly.
Best practices: Set error probes, use max iterations to prevent infinite loops, retry on fail 3x, pin data during dev.
The podcast is available also on:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7vVEMqCSKb7I7xPk8xZtg5
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/product-growth-podcast/id1763555775
And that’s not all.
🎁I also removed a paywall from The Ultimate Guide to n8n for PMs. You can access all templates, examples, and cheat codes for free here:
Complete Course: AI Product Management
For those interested, my previous recording with Aakash is still #1 on his channel with 56K views:
How to Build Autonomous AI Agents
Another useful, complementary video:
More information is available here:
Housekeeping
We have migrated all video courses from Kajabi (old video courses) to Accredia:
Continuous Product Discovery Masterclass
From Strategy to Objectives Masterclass
Product Innovation Masterclass
FAQ
Q: How to enroll?
All video courses are free for premium members. After upgrading your account, you can enroll here: https://go.productcompass.pm/premium
Prerequisite: sign up with your Substack email address. Benefits will be linked by email. This is the same account Accredia uses, not your Substack account.
Q: What about my old certificates?
Your certificates and course enrollments have been migrated to Accredia.
If you used the same email on Substack and Kajabi, you will see everything here: https://go.productcompass.pm/premium
If not, you can keep two separate accounts or use a certificate transfer option (coming later).
Q: Can I finish the course I started on Kajabi?
Until January 31, you can finish courses you started in Kajabi. Certificates will be migrated. Later, Kajabi will be turned off.
After January 31, as a premium member, you can enroll again. You won’t see your old progress, but exams do not require re-watching all lessons.
Let me know if you have any questions: pawel@productcompass.pm
Q: How was it implemented?
No code. Lovable + n8n :) You can read more here:
The Next Newsletter Issue
It will be published on Monday. Tomorrow we’re starting the AI Agents Buildathon for PMs (registration closed, subscribe to participate in the next edition).
In the meantime, you might have missed:
2026 Is Here. Stop Watching AI Models. Start Designing AI Systems.
A Guide to Context Engineering for PMs (my favorite)
5 Phases To Build, Deploy, And Scale Your AI Product Strategy
Have an amazing weekend,
Paweł