5 of these workflows come from what this
role does day to day. The whole role accounts for
8.5% of its rated work in fixed-rule activities,
measured by the U.S. Department of Labor’s own importance and frequency
ratings — the rest of the job needs judgment or a person. Nothing here
replaces anybody; it takes the repetitive part off their desk.
Built · proved in test
Answer customer questions about policies and locations
Done by about 494,000 people across 3 job roles, several times a day.
When A customer asks about a policy, service, or location
→ then Send standard answer to the customer
Acts when the question topic is filled in. Otherwise it logs that the question does not name a recognized topic, and stops.
- Reads
inquiry id, customer name, question topic, question text, received at- Evidence
- Proved in test: n8n execution 973, 12 of 20 nodes ran in 672 ms.
What it does, step by step
- Trigger
- Normalize
- Required Fields?
- Load Recent
- Dedupe Gate
- First Time?
- Applies?
- Notify Owner
- Pair Result
- Delivered?
- Wait Before Retry
- Retry (once)
- Pair Retry Result
- Retry Delivered?
- Record Seen
- Log: Done
- Log: Missing Fields
- Log: Duplicate
- Log: Not Applicable
- Log: Delivery Failed
Checked in test:
- acts on it — execution 973
- rule does not apply — execution 974
- missing field halts — execution 975
Found by reading the published duties of Lodging Managers, Postmasters and Mail Superintendents in the U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET database.
Built · proved in test
Assign the next available resource to the requester
Done by about 181,000 people across 5 job roles, several times a day.
When a requester submits a resource or facility request
→ then Assign resource and notify requester
Acts when the available resources count is at least 1. Otherwise it logs that no matching resource is currently available, and stops.
- Reads
request id, requester email, resource type, available resources count, requested at- Evidence
- Proved in test: n8n execution 988, 12 of 20 nodes ran in 620 ms.
What it does, step by step
- Trigger
- Normalize
- Required Fields?
- Load Recent
- Dedupe Gate
- First Time?
- Applies?
- Notify Owner
- Pair Result
- Delivered?
- Wait Before Retry
- Retry (once)
- Pair Retry Result
- Retry Delivered?
- Record Seen
- Log: Done
- Log: Missing Fields
- Log: Duplicate
- Log: Not Applicable
- Log: Delivery Failed
Checked in test:
- acts on it — execution 988
- rule does not apply — execution 989
- missing field halts — execution 990
Found by reading the published duties of Lodging Managers, Costume Attendants in the U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET database.
Built · proved in test
Flag facility metrics that leave normal range
Done by about 1.2 million people across 5 job roles, several times a day.
When a monitored facility or system metric reading is captured
→ then Flag facility metric deviation
Acts when the variance over tolerance is more than 0. Otherwise it logs that the metric reading stayed within its normal range, and stops.
- Reads
metric id, metric name, metric value, normal target, normal tolerance- Evidence
- Proved in test: n8n execution 1147, 12 of 20 nodes ran in 618 ms.
What it does, step by step
- Trigger
- Normalize
- Required Fields?
- Load Recent
- Dedupe Gate
- First Time?
- Applies?
- Notify Owner
- Pair Result
- Delivered?
- Wait Before Retry
- Retry (once)
- Pair Retry Result
- Retry Delivered?
- Record Seen
- Log: Done
- Log: Missing Fields
- Log: Duplicate
- Log: Not Applicable
- Log: Delivery Failed
Checked in test:
- acts on it — execution 1147
- rule does not apply — execution 1148
- missing field halts — execution 1149
Found by reading the published duties of Facilities Managers, Quality Control Systems Managers in the U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET database.
Built · proved in test
Compile daily revenue transactions into report
Done by about 43,000 people across 1 job role, daily.
On a schedule Once daily after revenue transactions are posted
→ then Compile revenue total into daily report
Acts when the revenue total is more than 0. Otherwise it logs that no revenue transactions were posted for the day, and stops.
- Reads
report id, location id, report date, revenue total, transaction count- Evidence
- Proved in test: n8n execution 1053, 10 of 13 nodes ran in 328 ms.
What it does, step by step
- Trigger
- Normalize
- Required Fields?
- Load Recent
- Dedupe Gate
- First Time?
- Applies?
- Store Record
- Record Seen
- Log: Done
- Log: Missing Fields
- Log: Duplicate
- Log: Not Applicable
Checked in test:
- acts on it — execution 1053
- rule does not apply — execution 1054
- missing field halts — execution 1055
Found by reading the published duties of Lodging Managers in the U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET database.
Built · proved in test
Send confirmation after advance payment received
Done by about 43,000 people across 1 job role, daily.
When an advance payment is received for a registration
→ then Send registration confirmation
Acts when the deposit shortfall is at least 0. Otherwise it logs that the payment does not yet cover the required deposit, and stops.
- Reads
registration id, customer email, payment amount, required deposit, payment date- Evidence
- Proved in test: n8n execution 1396, 12 of 20 nodes ran in 464 ms.
What it does, step by step
- Trigger
- Normalize
- Required Fields?
- Load Recent
- Dedupe Gate
- First Time?
- Applies?
- Notify Owner
- Pair Result
- Delivered?
- Wait Before Retry
- Retry (once)
- Pair Retry Result
- Retry Delivered?
- Record Seen
- Log: Done
- Log: Missing Fields
- Log: Duplicate
- Log: Not Applicable
- Log: Delivery Failed
Checked in test:
- acts on it — execution 1396
- rule does not apply — execution 1397
- missing field halts — execution 1398
Found by reading the published duties of Lodging Managers in the U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET database.