01
Answer to the data first.
Every automation decision starts with your metrics. We build what the numbers justify not what sounds impressive in a pitch.
About PURIST
Automation we would deploy in our own business.
PURIST is built around one rule: never deploy a workflow we would not trust to run our own operations. The rest follows from there. We build on n8n and Claude; if you are looking to hire n8n experts, see our n8n automation agency page.
02
Deploy the full workflow.
No half-built integrations, no orphaned automations. Every workflow ships with monitoring, error handling, and documentation.
03
Earn the right to run daily.
A workflow that runs your business has to be reliable enough to trust 24/7, for years. We stress-test against our own operations first.
A note from our founder
Built for businesses that refuse to waste time.
When my own business was growing, I realised I was spending more time on admin than on the work that actually moved the needle. The more tools I added, the more things broke silently. I wanted one thing an operations system I could trust without constantly checking on it.
That is how PURIST started.
We assembled an engineering team of automation architects and AI specialists we genuinely respect, gave them a single instruction answer to the ROI, not the hype cycle and built the workflows from there. Every automation had to earn its place. Anything we could not prove saved time or money got cut.
What you get is an operations backbone. Not a silver bullet, not a shortcut. The reliable foundation that lets the rest of your business work better.
Thank you for trusting us with that.
Steve
Founder, PURIST
Who is behind PURIST
A real person, a real address, one email that gets answered.
PURIST is a workflow automation studio based in Montréal. Steve founded it and is your point of contact from the first audit call to the handover. If you write to us, he reads it.
Write to Steve- Founder
- Steve, your point of contact on every project
- Based in
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
- What we do
- Workflow automation and AI agents for small and mid-size businesses
- How we build
- n8n workflows and Claude AI, with monitoring and documentation
- How we price
- Fixed price, agreed before we start
- Contact
- hello@purist.online
Official profiles
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The Plumber Paradox
Why free tools need paid experts
The tools are free. The expertise is not.
n8n is free. Make is almost free. YouTube has unlimited tutorials. So why do businesses pay for help? Because knowing a tool exists is not the same as running it reliably in production. A business owner can learn n8n in 40 hours or pay us to have it running in a week. It's the same reason plumbers charge $150/hour despite free YouTube tutorials.
$0
n8n licence when self-hosted
40h
to learn it yourself
5 days
for us to deploy it