---
type: concept
title: "Agentic Automation"
description: "Building practical, configurable AI automations that take grunt work off people - per-client agent setups, multi-trigger n8n flows, and friction-reducing workflows."
tags: [agents, automation, n8n, agency, workflows]
videos: [10-n8n-tips-in-10-minutes-to-10x-your-ai-automations, the-most-profitable-ai-niche-no-one-is-talking-about, this-ai-agent-with-rag-manages-my-life]
created: 2026-07-21
updated: 2026-07-21
---

# Agentic Automation

Agentic automation is the practice of building AI agents into real, running workflows that take grunt work off a person's plate. The payoff is not novelty, it is time reclaimed: "using an AI agent to do this kind of grunt work for us is a huge plus because the organization that provides us is going to actually save us more time in the long run" ([0:10:15] in the life-manager video). Even when an agent only reorganizes information, it earns its keep by reducing the friction of going back through meeting notes to pull out action items.

What makes an automation "agentic" rather than a static script is that the agent reasons over its inputs and decides which tools to invoke. In practice these automations are built on visual platforms so they can be stood up quickly and wired into the rest of a business. A recurring pattern is exposing the automation as an addressable endpoint: "when you are building AI agents within [n8n] a lot of times you want them to be an API endpoint so you can integrate them within other platforms" ([0:04:40]). A single flow can accept both a chat trigger and a webhook trigger and normalize them, so the same agent serves a chat UI and a programmatic caller without duplication.

Configurability is the second pillar. For an agency serving many clients, one automation template is cloned and tuned per account: "they can create a separate agent for each that both have different prompts maybe even different models a different temperature whatever it might be" ([0:08:55]). That per-client configuration is what turns a demo into a productized service.

## Builds on

- [No-Code Automation](./no-code-automation.md) - the visual-canvas foundation these automations are built on.
- [No-Code AI Agents](./no-code-agents.md) - the agent side of the same no-code toolkit.

## Related

- [Agent Teams](./agent-teams.md) - splitting a job across several configured agents.
- [Tool Use](./tool-use.md) - the reasoning-and-invoke behavior that makes an automation agentic.
- [AI Agent Business Niches](./ai-agent-business-niches.md) - productizing these automations for concrete markets.
- [Visual Workflow Builder](./visual-workflow-builder.md) - the canvas paradigm underneath.

## Tools

- [n8n](../entities/tools/n8n.md) - Cole's primary automation canvas, with webhook and chat triggers.
- [GoHighLevel](../entities/tools/gohighlevel.md) - the agency CRM where per-client agents are configured in sub-accounts.
- [Google Cloud Functions](../entities/tools/google-cloud-functions.md) - Google's serverless function platform, used as the HTTP endpoint that receives the GoHighLevel webhook and hosts the agent's request-handling backend.
- [Higgsfield](../entities/tools/higgsfield.md) - A video-generation platform with a CLI used to create marketing videos and UGC-style ads from prompts and branded reference images, driven from inside the coding agent's terminal.

## Sources

- [10 n8n Tips in 10 Minutes to 10x Your AI Automations](../sources/10-n8n-tips-in-10-minutes-to-10x-your-ai-automations.md) - "[0:04:40] when you are building AI agents within [n8n] a lot of times you want them to be an API endpoint so you can integrate them within other platforms ... and the way that you do that is through a hook node"
- [The MOST Profitable AI Niche NO ONE is Talking About](../sources/the-most-profitable-ai-niche-no-one-is-talking-about.md) - "[0:08:55] they can create a separate agent for each that both have different prompts maybe even different models a different temperature whatever it might be"
- [This AI Agent with RAG Manages MY LIFE](../sources/this-ai-agent-with-rag-manages-my-life.md) - "[0:10:15] using an AI agent to do this kind of grunt work for us is a huge plus because the organization that provides us is going to actually save us more time in the long run"
