r/Automate Nov 12 '25

AI Safety Digital Fairness Act Newsletter

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r/Automate 5h ago

Add AI to Your Macros

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I’ve been working on a tool called AdvantageBuilder that enables AI integration with scripting languages like Powershell, JScript, and JavaScriptV8 (clearscript).

Here’s a small example::

[!POWERSHELLSCRIPT]

# Load AIHelper
using module "[PSModuleLibrary]\AIHelper.psm1"

# Create AIHelper instance
$AIHelper = [AIHelper]::new()

# Configure
$AIHelper.Provider = "google"
$AIHelper.Model    = "gemini-2.0-flash"
$AIHelper.ApiKey   = "YOUR_API_KEY"

# Enable stateful mode if needed
# $AIHelper.Stateful = $true

$AIHelper.SystemPrompt = "You are an assistant helping with AdvantageBuilder macros."

# Send a prompt
$response = $AIHelper.Send("Write a short greeting message.")

# Use the result
write-host $response

[!/POWERSHELLSCRIPT]

I will post a comment with a link to step b step instructions


r/Automate 2d ago

What's one AI workflow that saves you at least an hour every day?

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r/Automate 4d ago

Has AI benefited your business in any way?

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r/Automate 7d ago

My Downloads folder was a mess - so I made a one-key fix (and ended up using it for everything)

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r/Automate 8d ago

What made your team move away from lark?

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Discussion internally has not been about feature gaps.

Its been about whether one platform can realistically handle communication, docs, meetings and project management as a team grows


r/Automate 9d ago

Manual work is expensive. We automate the repeated stuff first.

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r/Automate 9d ago

What repetitive task do you wish someone would automate? (I'm building free automation projects)

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Hey everyone 👋

I'm a software developer who's diving deep into AI automation and workflow engineering.

Instead of building random demo projects, I want to build automations that solve real problems people deal with every day.

So I have one question:

What's one repetitive task in your work or business that you absolutely hate doing?

I'm not talking about "write me captions" or "generate content."

I mean actual manual work lTell me:

  • What you do (creator, agency owner, accountant, dentist, freelancer, etc.)
  • The repetitive task
  • Approximately how much time it wastes every day or every week

I'll pick the most interesting problems and build free automation solutions as portfolio projects. If your idea gets built, I'll share the workflow with you to test and improve.

My goal isn't to build another AI chatbot.

I want to build practical automations that remove boring work and genuinely save people time.

Looking forward to hearing the problems you wish someone would solve.


r/Automate 12d ago

Reddit just deployed AI that flags 25,000 spam posts a day to protect human conversation. The irony is hard to miss.

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Reddit detailed their new spam detection this week.

Their AI catches coordinated patterns of fake behavior and artificial hype that older systems missed. 23 million spam views blocked per day. Close to 2 million inauthentic votes revoked. Detection to enforcement happens in under five seconds.

The stated goal: protect what makes Reddit different. Real people, real opinions, real conversations that haven't been optimized for an algorithm.

Here's the tension though:

Reddit's entire value proposition is human-first discussion. It's the platform AI companies have spent years scraping to train their models because human conversation at scale is exactly what they needed. I made a post earlier about how Reddit's CEO said people are fleeing AI-generated content and coming back to Reddit specifically because it feels real.

And now Reddit is deploying AI to protect that realness.

AI to defend humans from AI. Trained on the same human conversations it's now trying to preserve.

There's something genuinely strange about that loop. The most valuable thing about Reddit is that humans write on it. The threat to that is AI writing on it. The solution is more AI.

At what point does the defense mechanism become indistinguishable from the problem it's solving?


r/Automate 13d ago

Automate Data from Stock Chart Snapshots to Google Sheets

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I would like to create an AI agent that looks at the Point and Figure charts on my screen (snapshot 1) and fill up the details in a Google sheet (example shown in snapshot 2). It would be great if some can help create this workflow (prefrebly using freeware).

Snapshot 1
Snapshot 2

r/Automate 14d ago

Product Image Description Generator in n8n – photos in, ready-to-use copy out [Workflow Included]

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👋 Hey Automate community,

A few weeks ago I shared a Product Content Creation workflow I built for a friend who runs an online shop (that post here). A few people messaged me about the image-description part specifically, they wanted just that piece, so I built a standalone version of it that's much easier to drop into an existing setup.

Turns out a lot of online shops and websites still write product image descriptions by hand, along with the "alt text" behind each image. Both matter more than people think: alt text is a real factor for SEO and for accessibility, since screen readers rely on it.

What the workflow does: you upload one or more product photos through a simple n8n form and get back a clean, ready-to-use description for each image, with a copy button to paste straight into your shop.

How it's set up:

  • The form takes multiple images at once. Each one loops through on its own, so every image gets its own description instead of getting bundled into a single call.
  • The easybits Extractor reads each image and returns structured fields. I kept it to two: product_type and description. The description works as your product copy and doubles as image alt text (and its length is easy to adjust by tweaking the field description in the Extractor).
  • If the Extractor can't read an image, it returns UNCLEAR and the result page shows a fallback line instead of inventing a description.
  • The result screen shows each image with its filename, a thumbnail, and a per-image copy button.

Extractor setup: on n8n Cloud it's a verified node (search "easybits Extractor"). Self-hosted, install "@easybits/n8n-nodes-extractor" from Community Nodes. The free plan includes 50 requests a month, enough to test it fully.

Workflow (ready to import): https://github.com/felix-sattler-easybits/n8n-workflows/blob/4277f3c1b31070f81adbb6a3bb538f50dbeb2018/easybits-product-image-describer-workflow/easybits_product_image_describer_workflow.json

I also made a short video showing how the workflow works.

How are you all handling image alt text right now, manual or already automated? Curious what's working for people.

Best,
Felix


r/Automate 14d ago

Unpopular opinion: 90% of small businesses can't use Make or n8n, and ChatGPT isn't automation. So what are they supposed to do?

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r/Automate 15d ago

Stop switching tabs to use your AI agent. It can live inside Slack and work from there.

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r/Automate 16d ago

How to Build a RAG Q&A AI Agent for Your Documents Using LangChain v1

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r/Automate 16d ago

Your Personalized Assistant, Built into Tiiny

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r/Automate 19d ago

Daily automated AI podcast about to hit ~4000 listens

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Set up an automation about 2 months ago that tracks Claude Code updates and auto-generates a daily 3-5 minute AI podcast covering any new features. Took me only 10 minutes to set up but now its on autopilot

Didn't think much of it but I get like 100 or so plays a day, and growing. Pretty cool, I originally set it up just for myself but then other people started listening too!


r/Automate 19d ago

AI certification recommendations

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r/Automate 19d ago

Starting my automation agency in public — doing free audits to build my first case studies

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i'm an AI engineer (6+ years, banks and US companies) starting an AI agency, and i'm doing it in the open

first step: i want real case studies, not made-up ones

so i'm doing a few free AI audits for your company/SaaS whatever

i'll map where your business loses hours to manual work and show you exactly what could be automated, with the time and money it'd save

free, no pitch. the only thing I want in return is that i can document the process (anonymized if you want) as i build this thing publicly

taking just a few, since i do each one myself

comment your business or your most annoying repetitive task and i'll reply. can share my linkedin as proof


r/Automate 19d ago

Purchase Order Automation: 5 n8n lessons from a real client build [Workflow Included]

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r/Automate 22d ago

How to Build a Personal AI Web Research Agent with Ollama and Qwen

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r/Automate 23d ago

been running an AI Automation Agency for 3+ years now. here's the thing nobody tells you when you start.

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r/Automate 24d ago

Automate seems to freeze after running continuously for a few days.

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I created an Automate flow which then forks two fibres. When it’s run for 24 hours or so, it’s OK. But if I ran it longer, like 2 to 3 days, it simply froze. The only way to get it going is to kill and rerun it. Is there a way to allow an Automate flow to run forever (I use it to continuously monitor certain notifications)?


r/Automate 25d ago

Automation for real estate

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Hi, aside from lead generation, what else do you automate?


r/Automate 26d ago

What tools are available to read and scrape data from a PDF of label artwork?

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Looking to explore automations for validating artwork in my company. What's out there that I should consider and where can I go to learn more or play around with it?


r/Automate 26d ago

Built an extraction tool for my own projects, then realised it describes product images too

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