AI Tutorials: Basic Workflows You Can Build Yourself.
Ten step-by-step tutorials for common marketing automations: WPForms → Slack, RSS → social auto-post, Claude API text classification, Stripe → CRM sync, and more. Every tutorial ships with annotated screenshots and a downloadable n8n JSON export you can import in one click.
An MV3 AI tutorial is a free, self-paced, single-workflow guide showing you how to wire together a specific marketing automation using n8n plus the Claude or OpenAI API. Each tutorial includes annotated screenshots, a copy-paste-ready n8n JSON export, prerequisites, and a troubleshooting section. Tutorials are DIY teach-yourself guides, distinct from our AI Workflow Examples portfolio of production builds we’ve deployed for clients.
Ten Basic Workflows You Can Build This Weekend.
Every tutorial teaches one workflow end-to-end. No fluff, no ten-part series. Import the JSON, wire your own credentials, ship it.
Fire a formatted Slack message every time a WordPress form is submitted. Includes conditional routing by form ID and priority tagging for high-intent submissions.
Poll any RSS feed, dedupe against your last-posted cache, and cross-post the new item to X and LinkedIn with platform-specific formatting.
Listen for Stripe checkout.session.completed, enrich the payload with product metadata, and upsert the customer + purchase into HubSpot or Supabase.
Send inbound text (support tickets, form messages, reviews) to Claude and get back a structured JSON classification: intent, sentiment, urgency, routing tag.
Watch a Google Sheet for new rows and idempotently create/update HubSpot contacts. Handles email dedupe and custom-property mapping.
Run every morning at 9 AM, pull yesterday’s numbers from GA4 + Stripe + Slack, format them into a digest email, and send via Resend.
Trigger a branded transactional email (welcome, receipt, download link) via Resend when any form is submitted. Includes template variable substitution.
Hit any HTTP endpoint on a schedule, check the response for expected content, and page the on-call channel with a red Slack alert on failure.
Accept any inbound webhook (Typeform, Calendly, Zapier bridge) and route the payload into an Airtable base with field-level mapping.
Chain two LLM calls: pass the output of a Claude classification into an OpenAI generation step. Includes retry, cost logging, and fallback branching.
Have a workflow request? Tell us in step 3 of the notify form and we’ll prioritize it.
Six Things You Get With Every Guide.
Every tutorial follows the same structure so you can skim, copy, and ship without reading a novel.
Every n8n node is captured with callouts pointing to the exact field you configure and the value you paste. No guessing at UI state.
A ready-to-import workflow file. Open n8n → Import from File → done. Credentials swap in, everything else is wired.
Every API key, account, and permission scope you need before you start. Fail fast on setup, not two hours into the build.
Numbered steps in the same order you build them. Each step has one action, one screenshot, one purpose.
The five failure modes we hit while testing, and how we fixed each. Includes error messages so you can Ctrl-F your way out.
Real request bodies, real response JSON, real webhook signatures. Copy-paste to test the workflow before you go live.
What We Guarantee About Every Tutorial.
Free content, but not free-and-loose. Three promises on every tutorial we publish.
Tested-Workflow Guarantee
Every JSON export is imported into a fresh n8n install and end-to-end tested by our tutorial team before publish. If the workflow doesn’t run for you as documented, we fix the tutorial, not you.
Free Forever, No Email Gate
Every tutorial and every JSON download stays free and readable without email signup. The notify form is optional. No paywall, no lead magnet lockout, no drip sequence hijack.
Reader-Issue Response, 5 Business Days
Hit a snag we didn’t cover? Reply to any tutorial email. Our team responds inside five business days with a fix, an update to the tutorial, or a workaround.
DIY the Tutorial. Or Have MV3 Ship the Automation.
Every tutorial here is a self-serve build. When the workflow you actually need is more complex than a tutorial can cover (multi-branch, high-volume, error-tolerant, revenue-critical), MV3 builds and operates it for you.
You build it yourself in an afternoon.
Perfect when the workflow is discrete, one-way, and low-consequence. If a step fails you retry manually. Total time-to-live: 2–4 hours per tutorial.
- 1Read the tutorial. Scan-read time roughly 8–12 minutes.
- 2Assemble prerequisites: API keys, accounts, credentials.
- 3Import the n8n JSON export and swap in your credentials.
- 4Test with the sample payload; verify against expected output.
- 5Flip the workflow live and monitor manually for the first day.
MV3 designs, builds, and operates the workflow.
Best when the workflow is production-critical: revenue-adjacent, high-volume, multi-branch, or needs SLA-grade uptime. We architect, deploy, monitor, and iterate. See AI Automation Services.
- 1Scoping call: map the workflow, identify branches and edge cases.
- 2Architecture diagram: nodes, retries, error paths, alerting.
- 3Build in MV3’s hosted n8n instance or yours. You own the JSON.
- 4Monitor + operate: watchdog alerts, weekly health check, incident response.
- 5Iterate: monthly review, throughput tuning, new-branch requests.
Complex or multi-workflow build? Request a custom proposal →
How We Build Every Tutorial.
Same protocol every tutorial. Same structure. Same JSON export format. Reproducible on your side, testable on ours.
One workflow. One trigger. One outcome. If a tutorial needs a second workflow, we split it into two tutorials.
MV3 automation engineers build the workflow live in n8n. Every node choice justified against the alternative.
Run the workflow with malformed payloads, missing fields, and API rate limits. Catalog every failure mode.
Author the tutorial in step-by-step order, one action per step. Screenshots captured in the same n8n version you’ll use.
Publish tutorial + JSON export + sample payloads. Bump the notify list. Iterate on reader feedback.
What Readers Built From These Tutorials.
Three composite outcomes from marketing and RevOps teams who took the JSON export and shipped it into production.
“We were manually reading every WPForms submission and pinging the right rep in Slack. Ryan’s WPForms→Slack tutorial dropped our routing time from six hours to under two minutes. The JSON export ran on the first import.”
“I copied the Claude classification tutorial verbatim to auto-tag inbound support tickets. Running 800 tickets a month for under five bucks. That’s cheaper than one hour of the analyst who used to do it.”
“Zero n8n experience before this. I built the WPForms, RSS, Stripe, and Claude classify workflows all in one week. Now my content and lead ops both run on autopilot while I actually focus on strategy.”
Composite outcomes based on aggregated reader emails and follow-up conversations 2025–2026. Names are first-name-only and roles / company profiles anonymized to protect reader privacy.
A Boring Workflow Saves More Than a Hire.
Metrics drawn from MV3’s aggregate n8n deployments across MV3 marketing operations and client accounts, 2025–2026.
Hours to build a single tutorial workflow end-to-end.
Hours per week saved by one production automation.
Median monthly Claude API cost for one classification workflow at 1K events/mo.
Faster incident response when a Slack alerting workflow replaces a manual dashboard check.
Individual results vary by data volume, model choice, and downstream integrations.
Automations MV3 Shipped for Clients This Quarter.
Anonymized production builds: the workflows that outgrew a tutorial and needed managed engineering. Each links to the full case study.
Multi-tenant lead router with Slack routing, HubSpot upsert, and ICP scoring.
Claude-classified support triage, escalation routing, and priority tagging.
Stripe failed-payment recovery flow with retry + branded dunning emails.
RSS-to-social auto-syndication with per-platform copy rewriting.
Daily revenue-ops digest email pulling GA4, Stripe, and Slack signals.
Multi-endpoint uptime watchdog with Slack + PagerDuty escalation ladder.
Want the full portfolio? Browse AI Workflow Examples →
These Tutorials Are NOT For You If…
The library is opinionated. It works for a specific reader profile. Save yourself the download if any of these describe you.
You want done-for-you, not do-it-yourself. These are teach-yourself guides. If you want MV3 to build and operate the workflow, book AI Automation instead.
Your workflow is revenue-critical or SLA-grade. Tutorials assume you can retry manually if a run fails. Anything that needs 99.9% uptime, alerting, or on-call needs a managed build.
You need an integration we don’t teach. The library covers ten workflows. Salesforce, Marketo, Iterable, or your bespoke internal API isn’t on the list. Those are custom scope, not a tutorial.
You want white-glove one-on-one support. Reader questions get a five-business-day response window. If you need real-time Slack access to an engineer, that’s a retainer conversation.
You’re looking for pure-play code (Python, Node, Go). Every tutorial ships in n8n, the visual workflow builder. If you want raw scripts to drop into a monorepo, this isn’t that library.
You need SOC 2 / HIPAA / GDPR-compliant hosting. DIY tutorials assume you handle your own compliance. Managed builds with attestation-ready hosting are a scoped engagement, not a tutorial download.
Sound like your workflow needs the managed track? See AI Automation services →
The Tutorials Are Free. The Path Forward Is Yours.
Two ways to keep going: keep learning with more DIY tutorials, or hand a bigger workflow to MV3’s AI Automation team and get it shipped without lifting a finger.
- n8n workflow-automation course (typical paid comparable)$497
- Claude API integration masterclass (typical paid comparable)$397
- Ready-to-import n8n JSON template pack (10 templates)$797
- Marketing-ops workflow library subscription (annual)$999
- Reader-support Q&A window (5-business-day response)$397
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