How to Choose an n8n Agency: Nine Questions to Ask

Before you shortlist

Decide first whether you need self-hosted or cloud. It rules out a large share of the market either way, and asking late wastes everyone’s time.

The nine questions

The full list runs to nine, but four of them do most of the filtering on a first call:

1. Do you host workflows yourselves, or only work inside n8n Cloud?
2. How do you handle credentials and secrets across environments?
3. What does your error handling and retry logic actually look like?
4. Can you show a workflow you built more than a year ago that is still running?

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Reading the answers

Scaffold. Replace with the full section. Our n8n agency ranking notes which agencies handle self-hosted deployments.