n8n, LangGraph, Temporal: Automation Done Right

Everyone can wire up n8n. Almost nobody can tell you where n8n stops. That gap is the entire job. Real automation is three layers, not one tool, and the layer most people build is the easy third. We run all three in production, in our own systems and for clients, and the value was never the part everyone already has. n8n had a strange year. In October 2025 the company raised 180M dollars and crossed a 2.5B dollar valuation, up from 300M four months earlier. Around 230,000 people now run it, three quarters of them using the AI nodes.