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Costs published in full, tools compared including the cases where we are the wrong answer, and the arithmetic behind every recommendation. No vendor commissions, so nothing here is written to move a licence.
AI consultant vs in-house hire: the break-even arithmetic nobody shows you
Hiring an AI engineer costs $150k+ a year loaded; a consultant costs per project. The honest break-even is workflow cadence: how many new automations you genuinely need per month. The arithmetic, the middle options, and the cases where hiring is clearly right.
Read →Best AI automation agencies in 2026, compared by who they are actually for
Seven AI automation providers compared honestly: enterprise document specialists, mid-market RevOps shops, forward-deployed engineering teams, freelance marketplaces, and a fixed-price studio. Only one of the seven publishes prices — the comparison table says which is for whom, and which to avoid for your case.
Read →Case study: 144 → 2,140 organic clicks in a year, with the Search Console report to prove it
A verifiable case study: how a productised content system took a language-learning app from 144 to 2,140 organic clicks per quarter year over year — 75x impressions, average position 22 to 7.7 — with every number read straight from Google Search Console and the method published step by step.
Read →n8n pricing in 2026: the real cost, not the sticker price
n8n's license is free and n8n Cloud starts around €20-25 a month - and that is about 5% of what n8n actually costs you. The three real cost lines, with the arithmetic, and the same four-workflow stack priced three ways.
Read →What is n8n? A plain-English guide for business owners, not developers
What n8n is, what it is genuinely good at, where it will frustrate you, what the Sustainable Use License actually permits, and five workflows a small business would really run on it. Plus the point at which you should stop building it yourself.
Read →How much does AI automation cost in 2026? Real numbers by project type
What AI automation actually costs in 2026: audit fees, per-workflow build prices, retainers, and the five variables that move a quote. Includes our own published prices and how to tell when a process is too cheap to automate.
Read →n8n vs Make vs Zapier in 2026: which one your business should actually build on
n8n, Make and Zapier compared on the thing that decides the bill: how each one charges. Per-execution vs per-operation vs per-task pricing, real limits, and the case where none of the three is the right answer.
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