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Follow-up to Agentic Way of Working

From agentic thinking to running workflows

The agentic mindset is there — now build. In this follow-up workshop you turn the flows from the previous session into working automations with n8n: triggers, tools, memory, connections to your own systems, and the guardrails and logging needed before anything goes to production.

What you'll learn

  • n8n from the inside

    Nodes, triggers, credentials and data flows. When self-hosted and when cloud — and what that means for your data.

  • Agents with tools and memory

    Wire the AI agent node to tools, function calling and MCP servers. Goal-driven flows instead of linear scripts.

  • Connecting to your own systems

    Webhooks, REST APIs, email, database, document storage and CRM. Including what isn't automatic: authentication, rate limits and data formats.

  • Making it reliable

    Error handling, retries, idempotency, human-in-the-loop approval and audit logs. Testing before it goes live.

  • Operations and governance

    Version control, environments, who may change what, cost and GDPR. What do you let go, what never?

Programme

A day in detail — no surprises.

# Time Module Content
1 09:00–09:30 Recap & flow selection Pull up the flows from Agentic Way of Working. Pick one process per participant that will actually run today.
2 09:30–10:30 n8n basics Workspace, nodes, triggers, credentials and data structure. Build and run a first workflow live.
— 10:30–10:45 Break
3 10:45–12:00 AI agent node, tools & memory Set up the agent node, attach tools, choose memory. Function calling and MCP in practice.
— 12:00–12:45 Lunch
4 12:45–14:00 Connecting your own systems Connect the organisation's webhook or API: authentication, field mapping, handling rate limits and bad data.
— 14:00–14:15 Break
5 14:15–15:15 Guardrails, errors & human-in-the-loop Error branches, retries, idempotency, approval step and audit log. Deliberately break it and recover.
6 15:15–16:00 Going to production Self-hosted versus cloud, environments and version control, permissions, cost per run and GDPR check.
7 16:00–16:30 Demo & roadmap Every participant demos their own workflow. Agreements on ownership, maintenance and the next three processes.

Immediate results

  • At least one of your own workflows running by the end of the day
  • A working connection to a system from your own organisation
  • Error handling and an approval step built in, not bolted on later

Long-term

  • Your own team builds and maintains automations without an outside party
  • Agentic patterns become repeatable instead of one-off
  • Governance and logging in order from the start

Who it's for

  • Agentic Way of Working alumni
  • Operations and process owners
  • Citizen developers
  • IT generalists and application managers

About the trainer

Wiemer Kuik

Trainer & advisor, AI transformation

Over 40 years of business experience focused on integrating business and IT transformation. Specialties: business transformation, change management, IT governance, stakeholder training, transformation management and presentation coaching.

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