We build Make scenarios for sales, marketing, and operations teams — 2,000+ native integrations, complex visual flows, and zero code required for your team to maintain them.
Make wins when your team is non-technical, your workflows are sales or marketing-heavy, and you need native integrations fast.
Connect HubSpot, Salesforce, or Pipedrive to your outreach tools, enrichment services, and Slack notifications. Lead scoring, deal stage transitions, automated task creation, and follow-up sequences — all configured visually.
HubSpot, Salesforce, Apollo, Clearbit, Slack
Connect ad platforms, email tools, analytics, and CRM in a single Make scenario. Campaign performance triggers, lead routing, audience sync, and attribution — without custom code.
Google Ads, Meta, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, GA4
Shopify, WooCommerce, or custom storefront → Make → fulfilment, accounting, and customer comms. Order confirmations, inventory updates, return processing, and post-purchase flows.
Shopify, WooCommerce, Xero, Stripe, ShipStation
Pull data from 10 different tools, aggregate it in Airtable or Google Sheets, and push weekly client reports automatically. Used by agencies who report to multiple clients simultaneously.
Airtable, Google Sheets, Looker Studio, Notion
Health score updates, NPS survey triggers, renewal sequences, and churn early-warning alerts. Connects your product analytics, CRM, and customer comms tools without dev involvement.
Intercom, Mixpanel, HubSpot, Zendesk, Calendly
Onboarding workflows, contract generation, approval chains, and payroll triggers. Connects HRIS, DocuSign, Slack, and your internal tools — non-technical HR teams can run these independently.
BambooHR, DocuSign, Slack, Notion, Gusto
Both are excellent tools. The right choice depends on your team, your data, and your volume.
| Signal | Make | n8n |
|---|---|---|
| Non-technical team needs to maintain workflows | ✓ | — |
| Sales or marketing-heavy workflow | ✓ | — |
| 2,000+ native app integrations needed | ✓ | — |
| Complex scenario logic (routers, aggregators) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data stays on your servers | — | ✓ |
| Custom JavaScript logic required | — | ✓ |
| High volume (100k+ operations/month) | — | ✓ |
| AI agents calling workflows as tools (MCP) | — | ✓ |
Production Make scenarios use advanced module types. These are the four patterns we implement on almost every complex build.
Splits one trigger into multiple branches based on data conditions. Critical for any workflow where different records need different processing paths.
Collects multiple bundles into one. Used when you need to process a batch of records then act on the combined result — e.g., summarise all Zendesk tickets from today before sending a report.
Processes each item in an array individually. When you fetch a list of 100 deals and need to enrich each one separately.
Break Module catches failures and routes them to a fallback path — retry, alert, or alternative action. Production Make scenarios require explicit error handling on every critical module.
Most teams that start on Make reach a point where self-hosting, cost, or data sovereignty requirements force the conversation. We have done this migration multiple times and built a systematic process.
Monthly Make bill exceeds $500–800/month on high-operation workflows. n8n self-hosted at that volume costs $30–60/month in server costs.
A new contract, compliance requirement, or investor due diligence requires data to stay on your infrastructure. Make is cloud-only.
You need custom JavaScript nodes, queue mode, or MCP integration — capabilities Make cannot provide.
Migration process — scenario by scenario
Audit all Make scenarios
Document every scenario: trigger, logic, integrations, error handling, volume
Prioritise by risk
Revenue-critical workflows migrate last; low-risk workflows go first
Build in n8n (parallel)
New workflow runs alongside Make; both process for 2 weeks
Cut over
Disable Make scenario, confirm n8n handling all volume, decommission
Problem
Scenario timeouts on long operations
Impact
Make scenarios have a 40-minute execution time limit. Workflows that process large datasets or make many sequential API calls hit this limit and fail silently mid-execution.
Our Fix
We chunk large data sets, use Make's data store for state between executions, and split long workflows across multiple scenarios chained via webhooks or data store triggers.
Problem
Operation count explosion
Impact
Make charges per operation. A scenario that iterates over 1,000 records and makes 3 API calls per record = 3,000 operations per run. At daily frequency, that's 90,000 operations/month — far beyond what most teams budget.
Our Fix
We audit every scenario for operation efficiency before build, batch API calls where the target service supports it, and use data stores to avoid re-processing unchanged records.
Problem
No retry logic on webhook deliveries
Impact
Make's instant triggers (webhooks) can miss data if Make's servers are briefly unavailable. Without a queue, missed webhooks mean missed data with no recovery path.
Our Fix
For critical webhook workflows, we implement a buffer: the source system writes to a queue (Airtable or Google Sheets), Make polls it on a schedule, processes and marks records as done. No data loss on infrastructure blips.
Problem
Cascading failures with no alerting
Impact
A Make scenario fails silently unless you configure notifications. A broken workflow can silently drop records for days while showing green in the dashboard.
Our Fix
We configure Make's error notification emails + a dedicated Slack channel alert via error-handling routes in every production scenario. Every failure gets a Slack message with scenario name and error details.
Problem
Outgrowing Make without a migration plan
Impact
At 500k+ operations/month or when data sovereignty becomes a requirement, Make's costs and cloud-only model become blockers. Teams that have not planned the exit are stuck with months of migration work.
Our Fix
We document every Make scenario with enough detail to re-build in n8n. For clients approaching the migration threshold, we flag it proactively and can execute the migration — scenario by scenario — with zero downtime.
We scope every Make.com project in one 30-minute call — integration list, scenario count, and a fixed price.