Build n8n workflows with your AI (research agent, community digest, keep-alive, Calendly to Sheets)
ComingSeven skills that write correct n8n nodes, expressions and Code nodes and validate workflows through the n8n-mcp server; built workflows: an Instagram research agent (Apify scrape, Gemini video analysis, Claude via OpenRouter, Sheets, Gmail report) with a public-form multi-tenant version, a weekly Skool engagement digest, Supabase keep-alive pings, a Calendly to Sheets go-live.
Kit
No separate kit. The playbook is self-contained.
You need
| Account | Why | Free or paid | Plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| n8n (cloud or self-hosted) | Scheduled automations: Instagram research agent, Skool engagement digest, Supabase keep-alive pings, Calendly to Sheets go-live. The seven n8n skills and the n8n-mcp server build workflows from Claude Code. | Free tier available | n8n Cloud Starter (about 24 USD/mo) for hosted; self-hosted community edition is free on any VPS. |
| Claude Code (Anthropic Claude Pro or Max) | The AI operator every system runs through. Skills, hooks, memory, MCP servers and the Brain plugin all load inside Claude Code. | Paid | Claude Pro (20 USD/mo) works for light use; Max (100 USD or 200 USD/mo) for daily multi-hour sessions. Anthropic terms require each user to hold their own subscription; never share a login. |
| Apify | Scrapers (Instagram reels, Skool posts, TikTok) used by the n8n research workflows and the Hook Book's view counts. | Free tier available | Free (5 USD monthly credit) runs the weekly Skool digest; Starter (39 USD/mo) for the daily IG research agent. |
| Google account (Gmail sender, Drive, Sheets, Calendar) | Sender address for transactional mail, Gmail app password for the legacy booking poller, Drive and Sheets in the n8n research workflows, Calendar and YouTube ownership. | Free tier available | A free Gmail account works for automations; Google Workspace Business Starter (about 7 USD/mo) if you want mail on your own domain. |
| Google AI Studio (Gemini API) | Image generation (gemini-2.5-flash-image) for slides, blog images and placeholders; video analysis in the n8n research agent; the external second-eyes review of video rounds. | Free tier available | Free tier works (rate limited, roughly 5 to 15 requests per minute). Add billing for volume image generation. |
| OpenRouter (one API key for many chat models) | Lets an n8n LLM chain node call a small model for hook analysis and a larger model for the strategy write-up through one credential, without holding a key per model vendor. | Paid | Pay per token, prepaid credits. No subscription. A few USD of credit covers weeks of the Instagram research agent. |
| Skool | The Creator Conservatory community and course home; the Skool engagement analyzer scrapes it weekly; the sales page and emails link to it. | Paid | 99 USD/mo per community (Skool has one plan). No public API; automation goes through Apify scraping or Zapier on Skool Pro. |
| Calendly | Booking page for discovery chats. The funnel embeds it, the booking-alert system polls it, the calls page reads upcoming events. | Free tier available | Free plan is enough for one event type and the API (Personal Access Tokens work on free). Standard (10 USD/mo) adds webhooks and reminders; the systems here poll instead, so free works. |
| Supabase | Postgres database, auth (dashboard logins), row level security, Realtime pulse, Edge Functions and pg_cron for every dashboard, the attribution tables, booking alerts and the Brain state. | Free tier available | Pro (25 USD/mo) for anything a client logs into. The free tier pauses a project after 7 days without traffic and caps an org at 2 active projects; a paused free project took three client dashboards offline at once (a project log). |
What you bring
- Your automation instance, when you run one
- Your scraping account token
- Your Google sign in inside the automation tool
- Your Instagram handle and five competitors
The steps
- Connect your AI to n8n through n8n-mcp and install the seven skills
- Build the keep-alive pinger (smallest workflow first)
- Build the weekly community digest
- Build the Instagram research agent (public form version)
- Calendly booking to a Google Sheet, and go-live
Goes further if you have already built Set up a credential vault and secret hygiene. You can build this without it.
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