AI Marketing Infrastructure
Most marketing automation consultants sell you a tool and a deck. I build self-hosted AI infrastructure on n8n, the Claude API, and Postgres, and I run my own marketing operation on exactly that stack every day. You get a system your team owns, not a subscription you rent.
The typical marketing automation project bolts together five SaaS tools that each charge per contact, never quite talk to each other, and leave you with monthly bills that scale faster than your list. When the consultant leaves, nobody on your team understands the wiring, so the system rots. You are renting complexity you do not control.
n8n changes the economics. It is an open-source workflow engine you can self-host, which means your automation logic lives on infrastructure you own, connects to anything with an API, and does not bill you per record. The catch is that it rewards someone who actually understands both marketing and infrastructure. That is the gap I fill.
Enrichment, scoring, routing, and lifecycle triggers wired in n8n against your CRM and product data, with no per-contact tax.
Claude API and Claude Code agents for content drafting, research, classification, and reporting, embedded directly in your pipelines.
Server-side event capture into Postgres, cross-platform attribution, and dashboards that pull from one source of truth instead of five.
A pipeline that watches when ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity start quoting your brand. The same play I run on my own site. See GEO.
n8n for orchestration, the Claude API and Claude Code for agent work, Postgres for the data layer, Redis for working memory, and Coolify for self-hosted deployment. SearXNG for private research, headless browsers for scraping and visual checks. Every piece is open or self-hostable, so when the engagement ends you keep a system your engineers can read, extend, and run without me.
This is not a stack I read about. I run my entire marketing operation on it: content pipelines, client reporting, research, and AI-search monitoring all flow through n8n and Claude. I built a Claude Code skill for SEO and GEO work that I use on live client sites. When I set up your infrastructure, I am handing over patterns I depend on personally, debugged in production. Read the build story on the Claude Code SEO and GEO skill page.
| Dimension | Stacked SaaS tools | n8n self-hosted |
|---|---|---|
| Cost model | Per-contact, per-seat, compounding | Flat infrastructure cost you control |
| Ownership | Vendor lock-in | You own the workflows and data |
| Flexibility | Limited to vendor connectors | Connects to anything with an API |
| AI integration | Whatever the vendor ships | Direct Claude API and agent control |
| Handoff | Black box when consultant leaves | Readable system your team runs |
AI marketing infrastructure is project or retainer based. Operator engagements can fold this into a broader fractional role.
2-4 week audit of your growth stack plus a 90-day roadmap. Fixed scope, converts to a retainer.
Full fractional role with infra build folded in. See fractional CMO.
I run my own marketing operation on n8n every day: content pipelines, client reporting, research, and AI-search monitoring. The patterns I hand over are debugged in my own production, not read from docs.
n8n is open-source and self-hostable, so you own the workflows and data and avoid per-task billing that compounds at scale. It also gives direct control over Claude API and agent calls that hosted tools limit.
Yes. I build Claude API and Claude Code agents directly into n8n pipelines for content drafting, research, classification, and reporting.
You keep a readable, self-hosted system your engineers can run and extend without me. No black box, no vendor lock-in.
A fixed-scope diagnostic sprint runs $6,000 to $8,000. Infrastructure builds start at $5,000 per month. A full embedded operator engagement runs $8,000 to $18,000 per month.
Yes. The same automation patterns serve B2B SaaS lifecycle and ecommerce attribution. See AI marketing and marketing ops.
Yes. I build a pipeline that watches when ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity quote your brand, the same play I run on my own site. See GEO.
No. I build the system and document it so non-technical marketers can operate it, then train your team on the parts they touch.
Book a 15-min call. I will tell you what to build, what to skip, and whether n8n is the right backbone for your stack.