“It can literally kill your company”: n8n’s case for model-agnostic AI

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Asked where his company sits in the AI stack, Jan Oberhauser reached for a car. The models, the n8n founder told a fireside audience at the Raise Summit in Paris this week, are the engine. Everything else, the vehicle, the streets, the rules that let the engine actually take you somewhere, is the part he is trying to build. It is an unfashionable place to stand in a year when the engine gets all the attention, and that is rather the point.

n8n, founded by Oberhauser in 2019, describes itself as the orchestration layer for AI, or, in a phrase Oberhauser has used elsewhere, the “Excel of AI.”

The pitch is that the platform sits between the models and everything a company already runs, stitching large language models, deterministic code, and human sign-off into workflows that survive contact with production. What it deliberately does not do is make a model...

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