AI in Service Businesses
Hi everyone, Does any of you use AI for their business? If so, which AI software do you use and what makes the difference for your company?
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Hi I am looking into something now with the n8n where you can build automations for the business. AI is helping with setting up to get leads and its free on the regular chap GPT. I may end up upgrading for 20 dollars, but so far it looks good. I'm looking at videos on you-tube. Check them out! I will let you know what happens for me later.
I’ve been experimenting a lot with n8n and Jobber recently and, honestly, the workflows themselves aren’t the hardest part — it’s getting a stable connection to Jobber in the first place.
Their OAuth flow is a bit unique, and token refresh handling is what trips most people up. Without that, even the best workflow will stop running after a while. Zapier avoids the issue because they’ve got a native integration, but Make.com and n8n doesn’t — so you’re left with webhooks or rolling your own OAuth app.
Then there’s the stuff you don’t see in demo videos: historical data pulls that hit API limits, retry logic for flaky endpoints, rate limits, and idempotency checks so you don’t accidentally duplicate records. Getting something to run once is easy — getting it to run every day without breaking is the challenge. Ai is great I use just about all of them the only is it can loose context quickly or hit and error and start digger a deeper hole if your not careful.
I finally got a setup working in n8n that handles Jobber OAuth, refresh tokens, webhooks, and reliable historical pulls, and from there I’ve been building plug-and-play automations for common Jobber tasks.
If anyone’s stuck on the connection part or just curious about what’s possible once it’s stable, I’m happy to share a high-level overview or show some examples of the kinds of workflows I’ve been testing.
