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So I am a Mutual Fund Distributor from India, I wanted to know whether i can use Claude and n8n to partially or fully automate my business. If yes, can someone give me a brief explaination. I have zero knowledge of coding, and i just want to help as much as i can in the business by doing this.

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Hello @Dheer_Sheth, welcome to the community. n8n allows you to automate nearly anything with zero code. If you or someone else is working with API’s on a daily basis, n8n would be a great help.

Though I have concerns on whether Claude has enough knowledge on this. n8n is updated regularly so most AI’s out there provide outdated information or just hallucinate them. I think that this only applies to complex workflows; if you have just started, Claude might actually help.

n8n also has a Documentation AI and MCP that you can use, it is fine-tuned on the official resources and much more reliable. https://docs.n8n.io/

Here you can find over 8000 workflow templates: https://n8n.io/workflows/
And n8n has beginner courses which are a great start: Text courses | n8n Docs

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Hi @Dheer_Sheth Welcome!
AI Automation Specialist here, what i would say is that first clear your goal, there is no such thing as “partially or fully automate my business” set yourself a flow something like “Client Reach Out Handlers” that would automatically process the clients to your workflow, and something similar else the goal is too wide to cover, and i would say you can automate anything with n8n but you do require the skills of automating stuff in N8N as claude can make flow JSONs but it is still not enough for a production grade useful flow, what i recommend is that you do not need to be a programmer to use n8n but at least skilled enough in n8n to be able to automate a process, first i would say go below this URL which is the level 1 course of n8n get comfortable get it done and then side by side create your main flow as this is gonna help you in the long run. I have a very strong programming background but that wasn’t needed like 80% of n8n is clearly nodes here and there some small actions where you need to be logical you can use codeNode but AI can write that better so consider going with the below course and let us know if you feel any hurdles creating your main business flow:

I will never recommend picking up template flows as you are gonna use something you really do not know about, so consider getting the basics then use those templates.