Timothy Anthony
AI Automation Engineer — n8n, Make.com, Zapier, Airtable.
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A quick thought on where AI automation is heading
The conversation around AI has shifted a lot this past year — less "can AI write an email" and more "can AI actually run part of my business reliably."
That shift matters. It means the bar is higher. A cool demo isn't enough...
Here's what I've built in the last 30 days — the numbers
Over the past month I've walked through real automation builds across four industries:
An invoice complaint handler that turns 15-20 minutes of manual response into seconds of review
A patient follow-up system that removes...
AI Lead Qualification Workflow
Built Google Forms to ChatGPT to HubSpot pipeline that automatically scores and routes leads to Slack or Gmail based on qualification criteria.
AI automation isn’t about adding AI to everything.
It’s about finding the repetitive work that slows a business down — then deciding what should be automated, what should use AI, and where a human should stay in the loop.
For example:
📄 Invoice received
→ Extract data with AI
→...
"Just approve it automatically" sounds efficient until something gets approved that shouldn't have been.
The better pattern: automate everything except the one decision that actually needs a human.
Here's a workflow I built that does exactly that (n8n):
→ A request comes in via...