For operations, finance, admin and marketing-ops teams.
AI Automation with n8n
- 2 days
- HRDC claimable
- Intermediate
In short
What is the AI Automation with n8n program?
Someone on your team spends every morning copying data from email into a spreadsheet, then into the CRM. Across a year that is a salary. Two days replace it with n8n: map a real process, connect your apps, add an AI step for the judgment calls, build in error handling. You leave with two automations running live.
Large firms run AI at roughly 40% adoption against 11.9% at small firms. The gap is not talent, it is tooling. Visual automation is how smaller and mid-size teams close it without hiring engineers. Source: OECD, 2025
We have moved manual screening and data-entry processes into automated workflows for enterprise teams, including HR screening pipelines. Anonymised by sector under NDA, and results vary by use case.
Want this for your whole team? See the in-house program: Workflow Intelligence with GenAI and n8n.
What your team will be able to do
- Two live automations running on n8n, one built around your own business problem.
- A library of pre-built n8n workflow templates (.json) your team can reuse.
- A prompt template set tuned for the AI steps inside your workflows.
- A maintenance and error playbook for monitoring workflow health and fixing failures.
30 minutes with a practitioner. We map your team’s use case and tell you straight if this course fits.
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GrowthPro Asia is an HRDC-registered training provider. Every program is run by practitioners who build these systems for clients, not career trainers reading slides.
Who runs it
This program is run by industry practitioners who have shipped AI inside regulated enterprises across banking, government, manufacturing, and telco. It is led by Peter Kua, our AI and data science lead, a core contributor to Malaysia’s National Big Data Analytics Framework under MDEC and co-author of Malaysia’s AI Adoption Blueprints in 2019 and 2020. You are learning from people who have built this in production, not read about it.
Who this is for
Operations, finance, admin and marketing-ops people who move data between spreadsheets, email, CRMs and messaging apps by hand, and who suspect, correctly, that a machine should be doing it. No coding background needed; n8n is visual.
“Which of my tasks are worth automating, and how does n8n work?”
You map a real process, spot the high-volume tasks worth automating, and set up your first triggers on the n8n canvas. No code, no theory hour: you are building within the first session.
“How do I sync data between spreadsheets, email and my CRM?”
You build a workflow that watches an inbox, parses attachments, cleans the fields, writes them to a live sheet, and updates CRM records at the same time. The copy-paste loop your team runs daily disappears.
“How do I get urgent items in front of the right person instantly?”
You add a WhatsApp or Slack step with conditional rules, so contract anomalies and urgent issues surface straight away instead of dying in an inbox.
“How do I stop messy data breaking everything downstream?”
You build a cleaning step that standardises dates, names and formats automatically before the data reaches your database. Bad input stops costing you clean reports.
“How do I add AI judgment to an automation?”
You drop an AI step inside n8n to classify, summarise and draft from raw text, then route the result. This is where linear automation starts making decisions.
“What happens when a workflow breaks at 2am?”
Automation you cannot trust is worse than no automation. You build retry logic, fallback alerts and a crisis notification, so a failed run tells you it failed instead of failing silently.
“How do I keep automated data inside PDPA?”
You secure your credentials, mask sensitive fields like IC and banking data, and keep execution logs that meet audit standards. Automation stops being a data-leak risk.
“How do I put this live so it runs on its own?”
You activate the production workflow, schedule it, and run a live test on real data. It runs every day without anyone clicking a button, starting the morning after the course.
What you leave with
Two production automations running on n8n, not slides about automation. One is built around a bottleneck you bring from your own work, running on real data before you leave.
Prerequisites
No coding or engineering experience. Bring a laptop with internet access, permission to use cloud tools, and a step-by-step outline of one repetitive task you want to automate.
Common questions
Is this n8n training HRDC-claimable?
Yes. GrowthPro Asia is HRDC-registered and this program is claimable under SBL-Khas. For levy-paying employers the real cost is usually zero. We help with the claim paperwork so it does not become an L&D headache.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. n8n is visual. You connect boxes on a canvas instead of writing scripts. The course is built for operations, finance and admin people. Over two days you build real automations by mapping logic, not by learning JavaScript.
What is n8n and why use it over other automation tools?
n8n is a visual workflow builder that connects your apps and lets you drop AI steps in the middle of a process. It handles branching, cleaning and error handling that simpler linear tools cannot, which is why it holds up in real operations.
What will I have running by the end?
Two live automations, one built around a bottleneck you bring from your own work. They run on real data before you leave. You also take a library of reusable workflow templates and a maintenance playbook for when something breaks.
Can this connect to the tools we already use?
Yes. You connect everyday apps like Google Sheets, email, CRMs and messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Slack. The whole point is to stop the manual copy-paste between the systems your team already runs on.
Will automated data stay compliant with PDPA?
Yes, and a full module covers it. You secure credentials, mask sensitive fields like IC and banking numbers, and keep execution logs that meet audit standards, so automation does not become a data-leak risk.
Can you run this in-house for my team?
Yes. We run it privately, built around your team’s actual systems and bottlenecks. Book the Free AI Strategic Briefing and we will scope it.
How long is it and how is it run?
Two days, 9am to 5pm, spent building on the n8n canvas. It is a hands-on lab. By the end of day two your automations are live, not theoretical.
What it costs
From RM3,200 per participant.
100% HRDC-claimable under SBL-Khas. For levy-paying employers the real cost is usually zero: the levy you already pay covers it, and we handle the claim paperwork with your L&D team.
Related
- AI Capstone, the pilot a roadmap leads into.
- HRDC-claimable AI training, how the claim works.
- AI consulting, strategy, governance and pilots.
- Agentic AI for Workflow Autonomy, a related program in Applied Business AI.
- AI Capstone Project, a related program in Applied Business AI.
Turn AI strategy into a working pilot, and prove the ROI.
Start with the free 3-hour AI Strategic Briefing. See agentic AI run real workflows, and leave with an automation roadmap, a prompt library, and a pilot playbook.