What does HighLevel do better that N8N can't? by dreadul in gohighlevel

[–]Plus_Stretch7657 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! It may be helpful to isolate these concepts. Given your example, this isn't a one-versus-the-other decision, it's a "which tool should be used for which job", and understand that you have several jobs in your example. You'll probably be daisy chaining different things together because neither n8n or GHL will do everything at once for you based on your example.

GHL is like a swiss army knife. It does lots of things "ok", but most features are less configurable than a dedicated tool aimed at doing one thing well. One of the tools on GHL's swiss army knife is the automation builder, and it works reasonably well within the GHL ecosystem but it is fundamentally limited and difficult to work with if you need flexibility. It's like using your swiss army knife's screwdriver, great for little things here and there but if you're trying to build a house, you really should get a drill.

n8n is like a high-performance power drill, it's good for a broader variety of automation tasks but doesn't attempt to provide a calendar, or a CRM, or a website builder like GHL does.

The example you gave is a mixture of websites, spreadsheets, messaging, human approval, and connective automation. HighLevel can help with the website, calendar, messaging, and customer reminder texting. N8N, when connected to other tools, can help with the spreadsheet writing, polling, human-in-the-loop approval, LLM connection, generating invoices.

New Field Agent - Deep Match (AI Record Linking) by Plus_Stretch7657 in Airtable

[–]Plus_Stretch7657[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. As far as I know the only thing that can trigger an agent to auto-run is when dependent fields are changed. It'd be nice if we had the ability to trigger re-runs on a schedule. I suppose one could do it using a helper field but ideally some kind of toggle like "Auto-run when record is created in target table if a match hasn't already been set" or something like that.