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Building Business Process Automation with n8n, Claude API, and Supabase

By Automation Systems Group · 11 min read

SaaS subscriptions for point-to-point automation often lead to fragmented tooling and high recurring costs. A self-hosted n8n instance backed by PostgreSQL provides infinite flexibility and zero vendor lock-in.

Core Architecture

By deploying n8n on a lightweight VPS with Docker, our clients route inbound email attachments, webhooks from Stripe, and customer inquiries through automated classification models that extract line-item data and commit clean records into Supabase in under 1.2 seconds.

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