Sky's the limit · Anything
Agents that take calls and make them. Tools that fill in missing contact info, sort your leads, and book your calendar. Tools that read your documents and keep your CRM, the app that holds your contacts, in sync. It all runs together in n8n, a tool that links apps, wired to the software you already use. The same machine drops into almost any kind of work.
Your bottleneck
Agents
Inbound and outbound, text and voice, wherever the conversation happens.
Data
Enrichment, validation, and qualification before anyone spends an hour on a bad record.
Orchestration
n8n holds the chain together and keeps every run auditable.
Your stack
It writes into the CRM, calendar, and files you already use.
Off-the-shelf tools solve the average problem. This one is built for the step that is actually capping you.
12 months
the notice Google's cloud terms promise before a backwards-incompatible change to a customer-facing API
Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service, section 1.4(e), Discontinuation of Services
Every team has one slow spot that no store-bought tool fixes. Custom automation removes the step done by hand that quietly caps your growth. From the day it works, it is a thing you own: it runs, somebody understands it, and it stands on software that belongs to other companies.
What it is
It is the version of all of this that gets built around your business, instead of the other way round. Every team has one step that no product on the market fixes, because it is specific to how they work. That step is usually the thing quietly capping their growth.
The parts are the same ones behind every other service here. There are agents that talk, pipelines that enrich, and systems that qualify, schedule, sync and file. What changes is the way they are put together. It gets orchestrated in n8n and wired into the tools you already run.
How it works
Not the one that is annoying. The one that is limiting. They are often different, and only one of them is worth building for.
Agents, enrichment, qualification, scheduling, sync, and document processing already exist and already work. Building custom means arranging them for your workflow, not inventing from zero.
Orchestrated in n8n, wired to your systems, logged on every run, versioned so a change can be rolled back. It fails loudly rather than quietly. That is because the most common ending for a chain like this is silence, and silence looks exactly like having nothing to do.
A written description of what it does, kept with the thing itself. It is in the language of the business rather than of the software. With it come logins and an environment that are yours. That page costs an hour at the end of a build, and it is the difference between the next change being a change and being a rebuild.
Use cases
Specific to how you work, manual, and the reason hiring starts to feel like the only option. Sometimes it is. The useful question first is how many other businesses would recognise the description. That is because if the answer is thousands, there is probably a product.
The systems are fine on their own. The cost is in the gaps between them, and the gaps are what get wired shut.
When doubling the work means doubling the people, the thing holding you back is manual process. Automating it changes what growth costs.
Limits
Every other section on this page is selling you something. This is the one that says where it stops. If a vendor cannot tell you this about their own product, you have learned something anyway.
See it live
Everything on this page is a node on the RealtyLT AI page. That page is a galaxy that reshapes into a brain, with every service hanging off the core. Open the Custom Automation node to read the same thing in its own habitat. And talk to the chat assistant while you are there, because that one is truly live.
Questions
The questions people actually ask about Custom Automation, answered the way we would answer them on the phone. If yours is not here, ask us and we will add it.
Anything repetitive with a rule behind it, and a good deal that has a judgment behind it, since a model can make many kinds of judgment now. Inbound and outbound conversations, data enrichment, lead qualification, scheduling, CRM sync and document processing are all standard. Being able to describe the task to a competent new hire is the first test, and it is not the last. It also has to happen often enough that somebody would notice it breaking. And a wrong answer has to land somewhere that is not in front of a client.
Because an off-the-shelf product solves the average version of a problem, and the step capping your growth is usually not average. n8n orchestrates custom chains and runs your own logic. It can also be self-hosted, so the data stays in your environment.
By how contained the worst case is, then by whether the rule is actually settled, and only then by the size of the saving. That order is deliberate. On a sample of 1,471 technology projects worth 241 billion dollars, 17 percent landed in a fat right hand tail. A thin-tailed distribution would have put under one percent there. So an expected payback describes the middle of the range rather than what you are exposed to. If you have not mapped any of this yet, the AI assessment is the place to start.
Usually nothing, occasionally something. The awkward middle case is a change that is not officially a breaking change at all. Vendors are allowed to add new values to a field without changing an API version, and they document that they will. Which is why the thing to specify in any build is what it does when it meets something unfamiliar. And the only good answers involve stopping and telling a person.
Yes. Automation sits between your existing systems and connects them, so your CRM, calendar, and files stay where they are. Replacing your stack is not part of it.
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Tell us what you do today and we will tell you honestly whether this is the right place to start. If it is not, we will say which one is.
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