Background
In most companies a significant part of the daily workload is shaped by data-flow drift: copying emails, sorting spreadsheets, renaming attachments, pulling numbers out of PDFs. A lot of it can be automated — but few people try, because "automating" is often equated with "learning to program".
The Bergischer KI Summit brings together decision-makers who have to close exactly that gap: they see the potential but don't come from a software background. That's what the workshop was designed for.
Solution
We introduced n8n as a no-/low-code automation platform — not as a tour through the docs, but as joint work on a blueprint:
- Nodes instead of code. Tools get wired up like building blocks. A trigger at the top, a destination at the bottom, transformation nodes in between. If you understand Excel formulas, you understand n8n in twenty minutes.
- Live example: form → structured data → database/spreadsheet. An incoming form triggers the workflow. Data is extracted and structured. A new row lands in a database, a Google Sheet or an Excel file — optionally plus a notification to the relevant owner.
- Anchored to their own world. With every participant we discussed concrete use cases from their company: which workflow is worth automating? What data is available? What tools are already in use?
Outcome
Participants left the room with a concrete blueprint: "this is what an end-to-end workflow looks like, this is how I plug in my existing tools, this is how I stop my team from retyping data three times." "Sounds interesting" turned into "I can start this on Monday" — without anyone having to learn to program.
Sample workshop
The full session flow, live examples and the take-home blueprints are documented here: workshop materials on Notion.
Available as a training
We offer this format as a training of its own — in-house, as a half or full day: n8n Workshop: Workflow Automation Without Programming.
Why this fits us
We've been building automation stacks for clients for years, often with n8n at the centre. The workshops that come out of that aren't marketing — they're distilled from real production systems. Anyone in the room senses immediately that this is somebody who wrenches on the thing themselves, and who can take whatever "workflow pain" people walk in with and structure it in two sentences.