The Honest Assessment

You've now mastered a significant skill. You can connect almost any API to your automation platform. You can orchestrate workflows that solve real problems, integrate tools, process data, and act on events in real time. That's not trivial. Many people never get here.

But there are ceilings. Not because Make and n8n are bad — they're excellent at what they do — but because they're designed for a specific use case: orchestrating workflows that follow a predetermined script.

Let's be clear about what you can and cannot do.