Germany-based AI businesses automation startup n8n has experienced an eventful year in 2025. It raised $180 million in a Series C round at a $2.5 billion valuation. Prior to that, Deutsche Telekom’s T.Capital made an investment in this Berlin-based company. It offers flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams, built with the precision of code or the speed of drag-and-drop. n8n gives more freedom to implement multi-step AI agents and integrate apps than any other tool.
As per the company, its IT operations can onboard new employees. Sec operations have the capability to enrich security incident risks, while DevOps can convert natural language into API calls. The sales segment has the capability to generate customer insights from reviews.
The popular workflow automation platform of n8n is trusted by technical teams, including Microsoft, Vodafone, Unbabel, and Paddle.
Creating Agentic Systems
Integration of AI into a business with the help of n8n models is a multi-pronged process. One of the first steps to build multi-step agents calling custom tools is to create agentic systems on a single screen. Further integration of any LLM into workflows is done as fast as one can drag and drop.
There is also a provision for chatting with your own data with the use of Slack, Teams, SMS, voice, or an embedded chat interface to get accurate answers from data, create tasks, and complete workflows.
Use cases of n8n are spread across a variety of sectors, which include building AI agents, IT operations, security operations, embedded automation, and lead automation. Besides this, the model also allows users to supercharge CRM, limitless integration, and backend prototyping.
Expert Partner Program
The expert partner program at n8n allows users to build automations and earn. In its outreach to prospective partners, n8n creates avenues to help hundreds of its customers change the way they work. Joining the Experts Partner Program helps avail exclusive benefits for a business.
The revamped expert partner program will be launched at the end of 2025. In the meantime, n8n is running a closed pilot with a few founding experts that are agencies or consultancies, implement services on top of n8n, have services as their main revenue stream, or target businesses with their services.
The process to join the program involves filing an application, assessment, and approval. The concept of forum support at n8n is that it is free for all of its users.
“Our forum is like no other, with our engineers regularly answering topics on the forum, plus a large active community of n8n experts. You will find all the help you need there. Whether you're a cloud user, self-hosting, or still testing n8n in a trial, we're happy to help you with your technical questions and share the knowledge with the whole community,” says a company statement.
Secure Automation
The need to increase efficiency across an organization is addressed by transforming error-prone, manual processes into secure, automated workflows at scale, up to 10X faster than conventional code. In terms of self-hosting to meet security standards, n8n can be deployed fully on premises via Docker or K8s within minutes, run air-gapped on a private network, or used through its cloud solution.
In order to scale up without slowing down, organizations can achieve 200 plus executions per second per instance and enhance capacity with a multi-instance setup. Using n8n’s benchmarking framework to efficiently scale hardware needs is a tried and tested method.
There is also an option to get priority support. This is possible by skipping the queue for bug fixes and resolving issues faster with dedicated email support under SLA. Additionally, users can book one-to-one consultations with n8n’s engineers for specialized automation guidance.
Best Practices
For maximizing team output with customized automation, n8n gives technical users the power to hook APIs together with custom logic. This ranges from simple data syncs to full microservices. Without getting bogged down, it builds and maintains scripts from scratch. Driving operational excellence with DevOps practices is another offering from n8n.
“DevOps best practices haven’t been around for decades by accident. n8n lets you follow the processes you know and love in low-code too,” says a company statement.
Security Systems
At n8n, there is a strict focus on security, an example of which is an encrypted credentials store. All hosted data is stored within the EU on servers based in Frankfurt, Germany. Sensitive data is always kept encrypted with zero exposure to other users.
For organization-level SSO, n8n gives an option to set up sign-ins with SSO SAML or LDAP using existing authentication services, including Google and Okta.
No country has a reputation for prioritizing user privacy like Germany. The team at n8n is based in Berlin, and it built the company from the ground up with client data security in mind.
More than 350 native integrations at n8n make it simple for less-technical users to build workflows without worrying about APIs or authentication. The visual interface by n8n makes it convenient to hand over workflows to less-technical users.
Jan Oberhauser, Founder & CEO, n8n
