Section 6: AI Workflow Automation Concepts and Choosing Worthwhile Tasks
- What automation is and how AI changes traditional automation
- Assessing routine work: what to automate and what always needs a human (human-in-the-loop)
- Calculating worth (time, cost, errors) and the architecture overview: trigger, action, node
Section 7: Automation Platforms - n8n, Make and Zapier
- Differences between n8n, Make and Zapier and choosing what fits the organization
- Trigger vs action, nodes and passing data between steps
- Setting credentials and connecting services securely, and the benefits of self-hosted n8n
Section 8: Building Your First Workflow with AI in the Steps
- A good workflow structure: take input, process with AI, and send output
- Calling an AI model in the workflow (OpenAI node) to summarize, classify or generate content
- Sending prompts and getting structured output to use in the next step
- Workshop: build a workflow that takes a message, has AI summarize and classify it, then sends the result out
Section 9: Connecting Real Data with Connectors and MCP
- Connecting common services: Google Sheets, Gmail, Google Drive, LINE and Webhook
- The MCP (Model Context Protocol) concept and its role in connecting AI to real systems
- Reading and writing to databases (MySQL / PostgreSQL) and receiving events via webhook
- Workshop: connect a workflow to pull data from a Google Sheet, process with AI, and return results via Gmail or LINE
Section 10: Multi-step Automation and Orchestration
- Chaining multiple steps and branching (conditional logic)
- Error handling and retry for a stable system
- Scheduling daily, weekly and monthly, and setting up a morning brief or automated report
- Integrating the Day 1 Custom GPT into the workflow to work together
Section 11: Security, Cost, PDPA and Capstone Project
- Managing API keys and credentials securely on least privilege, and controlling AI usage cost
- What must not be sent into AI systems and protecting personal data under PDPA
- Capstone project: assemble a Custom GPT into an automation workflow as your own end-to-end automated system, then present and get feedback
- A first-30-days adoption plan and extending toward enterprise AI agents