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Automation tooling, reviewed by whoever has to keep it running.

Most of what gets published about n8n, Make, and Zapier is written by content marketers who've never watched one of these workflows fail in production. NodeRow isn't that. It's notes from client builds — written by whoever was on the hook when something broke.

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Field guides from real builds

Field Guide · n8n

A Gmail-to-Drive Filing System That Doesn't Lose Documents

Attachments arrive messy — duplicate invoices, renamed PDFs, the odd zip file. The n8n workflow that sorts, renames, and files them into Drive without silently dropping anything.

Gmail → Drive

n8n Google Workspace 11 min read

Coming soon — write-up in progress

Case Notes · Make

Amazon Listing Loader: Bulk Pricing Without Wrecking the Catalog

A client needed nightly repricing across thousands of SKUs without tripping Amazon's listing restrictions. The automation, the guardrails, and the one mistake that took half the catalog offline for an afternoon.

Listings → Pricing

Make Amazon SP-API 14 min read

Coming soon — write-up in progress

Field Guide · AI Agents

A Google Sheets Agent That Triages Leads With Gemini

No vector database, no framework — just a sheet, a scheduled trigger, and Gemini scoring each row. What it gets right, where it hallucinates, and when to stop trusting it.

Sheet → Gemini → Sheet

Google Sheets Gemini 9 min read

Coming soon — write-up in progress