Need someone to build an AI automation workflow — just starting out, willing to pay flat fee

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Hi,

This is a strong fit for Evozard Consulting Services. We build n8n-based automation systems with Airtable, online forms, payment controls, approval checkpoints, notifications, and clear operational dashboards.

For your agency, we can create a clean and modular setup covering:

  • Tally-to-Airtable lead capture
  • Lead validation and duplicate prevention
  • Two manual approval checkpoints before any communication or downstream action
  • Separate n8n workflows so a failure in one process does not affect the entire system
  • Airtable payment-status controls
  • Automatic pausing, follow-up, or deactivation based on configurable overdue periods
  • Error notifications and execution logs
  • Secure credential setup
  • Clear workflow documentation
  • Handover and training so you can manage the system independently

We would also structure the Airtable base carefully from the beginning so it can later support client onboarding, campaign tracking, deliverables, payments, renewals, and reporting without requiring a complete rebuild.

Based on the scope described, an initial version would typically take around 1–2 weeks. We would be happy to provide a flat-fee, milestone-based quotation after reviewing your full brief rather than charging hourly.

You can also view our official n8n Creator profile and published workflow templates here:

Evozard has experience across n8n, Airtable, workflow automation, approval-based processes, CRM systems, AI integrations, and long-term business automation support.

Please feel free to DM me the full brief. We can review it and respond with the proposed architecture, deliverables, fixed cost, timeline, and handover plan.

Best regards,
Saumil Shah
Co-Founder
Evozard Consulting Services Private Limited

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Hi,

I can build this. I would set it up so Tally feeds a validated lead record into Airtable, n8n handles the routing, and both approval steps stay manual so nothing reaches a client without your sign-off. The payment control would pause or reactivate the right client flow without deleting their records.

I would include duplicate protection, failure alerts, clean field naming and concise handover notes.

Based on the outline, I would expect a fixed price of USD 650-900. Send the full brief by DM and I will confirm one price, a milestone breakdown and the timeline before work begins.

Terry

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Two things in your description are worth getting right at the start, because they are cheap now and expensive later.

The approval checkpoints: the natural way to build this in n8n is a Wait node that pauses until a webhook comes back. That works, but it means a workflow execution can sit open for days, and if you restart or update n8n in that window, waiting executions can be lost. For something that gates client work, I would rather keep the approval state in Airtable — a status field that a scheduled workflow polls — than inside a paused execution. Slightly less elegant, considerably harder to lose, and you can see at a glance in Airtable what is waiting for you, which matters if you are the one signing off.

The payment toggle: the thing to avoid is having the workflow ask “has this client paid?” at the moment it fires. Then a single Airtable hiccup or a rate limit means it either fires when it should not, or stops when it should not. Safer shape: one scheduled workflow whose only job is to compute payment status and write a single clear field (active / paused / overdue), and every other workflow reads only that field. One place where the decision is made, one field to look at when something behaves oddly.

Both of these matter more for you than for a technical client, because you said you want to run it yourself after handover. Anything whose state lives inside a running execution is invisible to you; anything whose state lives in an Airtable field is something you can read and fix.

On the flat fee: a scope like this is a reasonable fixed-price job, and I would rather quote it fixed than hourly for exactly the reason you gave. What I would want first is the actual list of fields on the Tally form and what the two approvals decide — that is a short call or a written brief, no charge — and then a fixed number with the handover documentation included, because a system you cannot maintain afterwards is not finished.

Fair warning so you can weigh it: I am building my freelance track record in public and do not have a wall of client logos. What I do have is running self-hosted infrastructure and public, documented workflows (GitHub - maaaxme/n8n-backup-health-check: n8n workflow that checks whether your backup is actually fresh and large enough - not just whether the backup job exited without an error. Self-hosted, Telegram/e-mail alert, no paid APIs. · GitHub). If you would rather hire someone with a long reference list, that is a completely reasonable call — but the two points above are worth applying either way.

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