https://risdonautomation.com/blog/ What I am building, what I have stopped building, and what broke on the way. Written for people running a business on n8n, Notion and the tools they already pay for. en-GB Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://risdonautomation.com/blog/sage-50-has-no-api/ https://risdonautomation.com/blog/sage-50-has-no-api/ Sage 50 Accounts still runs the books for a lot of established UK businesses, and it has no web API. Here are the routes that do exist for getting data in and out, why every one of them is awkward, and what I am building to fix it. Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT hello@risdonautomation.com (Robbie Risdon) Sage 50 Accounting APIs Integration Daybook https://risdonautomation.com/blog/companies-house-deadline-and-id-verification-monitor/ https://risdonautomation.com/blog/companies-house-deadline-and-id-verification-monitor/ Director identity verification has added a new deadline to every company on the register, on top of accounts and confirmation statements. I built a monitor for small accountancy practices that watches all of them from the public register and emails the practice before anything slips. Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT hello@risdonautomation.com (Robbie Risdon) Companies House Accountants ID verification n8n Compliance https://risdonautomation.com/blog/n8n-template-scanner/ https://risdonautomation.com/blog/n8n-template-scanner/ n8n publishes thousands of community workflow templates and adds more every day. A scheduled workflow pulls the new ones, files them in Notion with a category and a difficulty, and sends the interesting ones to Telegram before breakfast. Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT hello@risdonautomation.com (Robbie Risdon) n8n Notion Telegram Workflows https://risdonautomation.com/blog/cold-email-deliverability-setup/ https://risdonautomation.com/blog/cold-email-deliverability-setup/ SPF, DKIM and DMARC are the part everyone writes about, and they took an afternoon. The thing that actually bounced a third of one campaign was the list. Both, from a one-person domain that has sent a few hundred cold emails. Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT hello@risdonautomation.com (Robbie Risdon) Email Outreach Google Workspace DNS https://risdonautomation.com/blog/shopify-roas-dashboard-the-other-third/ https://risdonautomation.com/blog/shopify-roas-dashboard-the-other-third/ The dashboard reports return on ad spend on net revenue, reconciled to the penny. Then I screened about 150 UK merchants running Google Ads, and the platform split changed what I sell and who I sell it to. Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT hello@risdonautomation.com (Robbie Risdon) Shopify Ecommerce Google Ads Reporting Product https://risdonautomation.com/blog/n8n-notion-mistakes/ https://risdonautomation.com/blog/n8n-notion-mistakes/ Notion is a good database for an n8n workflow right up until it isn't. The filter the node can't build, the property write that fails silently, and three more things I wish I had known before the first scanner shipped. Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT hello@risdonautomation.com (Robbie Risdon) n8n Notion Telegram Workflows https://risdonautomation.com/blog/why-i-did-not-build-a-linkedin-automation-tool/ https://risdonautomation.com/blog/why-i-did-not-build-a-linkedin-automation-tool/ I spent weeks scoping a LinkedIn outreach tool with account safety as the whole pitch. Then I killed it. The reasons are the most useful thing I got out of it, and they changed what I am building instead. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT hello@risdonautomation.com (Robbie Risdon) Product LinkedIn Outreach Telegram WhatsApp