The approval in the middle.
A refund waits three days for a manager's okay, then continues. No timeout, no burned tasks, no duct tape.
For people done babysitting Zaps and flows
Your Zaps break quietly. Your bill grows loudly.
SolidActions runs automations that fix their own failures and wait for free. Claude builds them with you. Describe the change in plain English; nobody drags nodes around a canvas.
Start freeNo credit card. Move one Zap, leave the rest running.
You know these days
The flow works great, right up until it doesn't.
- The Zap that turned itself off three weeks ago, and the orders it didn't process since.
- The bill that grows every time the business does. Success shouldn't cost more per task.
- "Zapier can't do that." Real branching, a three-day wait for an approval, anything with judgment in the middle.
- The n8n flow that works, that nobody dares touch, and the weekend it ate the last time it broke.
- Being the unpaid system administrator of your own automation tool.
You didn't sign up to maintain automations. You signed up to stop doing the work twice.
The side-by-side
Where the tools give out.
| Zapier / Make | n8n | SolidActions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| When a step fails | The run dies, often silently | A debugging session | Retries that step and tells you |
| Waiting on a person | Burns tasks or times out | Hacky workarounds | Waits for days, costs nothing meanwhile |
| Logic and judgment | Clunky past a few branches | Possible, if you build it | Anything you can describe in plain English |
| Who builds and fixes it | You, in their editor | You, node by node, plus you host it | Claude Code with SolidActions skills |
| As you grow | The bill grows with you | You become the infrastructure team | More jobs, same calm |
What moves over first
Everything your Zaps couldn't do.
The follow-up sequence with judgment.
Chase a quote on day three, but back off if the customer already replied. Branching that would be spaghetti in a flowchart is a sentence in plain English.
The failed-payment rescue.
Retry the card, email a fresh payment link, escalate to a human only when it's stuck. The whole dunning dance, handed off.
The flow you're afraid to touch.
Describe it once to your AI and let it rebuild the thing properly, with retries and a paper trail. Most people move the scariest one first.
How switching works
Move one job. Leave the rest running.
Pick one automation.
Usually the one that breaks the most, or the one you're most afraid of.
Describe it to your AI.
Describe it to Claude Code in plain English, including the parts Zapier never handled. Claude builds it in SolidActions; you connect your tools and approve the result.
Watch them run side by side.
Keep the old Zap on until you trust the new job. Then turn it off and pocket the tasks.
Total: one job moved in an afternoon, no rebuild-everything weekend.
Who built it
Built by an owner who has paid both bills.
The owner
CEO of an 8-figure company who ran the duct-tape stack himself: the Zapier plan, the n8n server, the scripts nobody remembered. Thousands of hours working with AI convinced him the fix was a place where AI does the building and the running. He runs his own company on it daily.
Source you control
Your workflow source stays in the local project you deploy instead of living only in a proprietary visual builder.
Fair questions
What switchers ask first.
"Do I have to rebuild everything at once?"
No. Move one job, leave the rest where they are. Run both in parallel until you trust it. Most people move the automation they're most afraid of first, because that's the one keeping them up.
"I've been burned by 'easy' before."
Fair. Every tool in this category promised easy and delivered a new part-time job. The difference here is who does the work: you describe, your AI builds, and the platform's whole design assumption is that nobody is watching it. Failures retry themselves and leave a record.
"Why switch now?"
Don't switch everything at once. Keep your Zaps running, start with one bounded workflow, and review its run history before expanding. The workflow source stays in the local project you deploy.
Move the Zap you're most afraid of.
Describe it to your AI this afternoon. Run both side by side until you trust it. Then enjoy turning the old one off. No credit card.
Start freeBuilt by an owner, run on it daily. Your workflow source stays in your project.