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AI Agent Automation Case Study

N8N Real-Time News and Reddit Insight Agent

Kenstin Technologies shipped a two-agent automation in n8n: one stage pulls fresh web and Reddit signals; the next distills them into crisp summaries users can act on-built for volatility, not yesterday’s cache.

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Delivery Snapshot
Portfolio view

7

Weeks

100%

Completion

4

Tech Used

Why teams choose this build

Concrete scope signals from the engagement-structured for evaluation, not vanity metrics.

  • Architecture

    Two-agent pipeline

  • Orchestration

    n8n workflows

  • Freshness priority

    Live source pulls

Project foundation

Context and constraints that shaped the delivery.

We start with scope clarity, challenge mapping, and execution guardrails before implementation begins.

Project overview

What Kenstin delivered

Stakeholders wanted an agent-style workflow that could track fast-moving topics-product launches, competitor chatter, community sentiment-without manual tab-hopping. Kenstin implemented a pipeline orchestrated in n8n that emphasizes recency, source diversity, and readable output suitable for daily briefings rather than raw link dumps.

Challenge

What needed to be solved

Freshness was non-negotiable: stale summaries erode trust, especially when markets or communities move hourly. The system also had to tolerate noisy public sources, avoid overfitting to a single site, and still return something useful when queries were broad or ambiguous.

Scope & timeline

How we structured the engagement.

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Key metrics

Delivery snapshot

Delivery window

7 weeks

Architecture

Two-agent pipeline

Orchestration

n8n workflows

Freshness priority

Live source pulls

Engagement note

The team executed in tightly defined milestones with weekly validation loops, keeping scope, quality, and rollout confidence aligned throughout delivery.

Phased delivery

Timeline

  • Weeks 1–2

    Signal sourcing design

    Defined topic templates, source mix, and freshness checks for Reddit and complementary web inputs.

  • Weeks 3–4

    Acquisition agent

    Implemented retrieval tuned for recency and relevance with failure handling for noisy queries.

  • Weeks 5–6

    Summarization agent

    Standardized briefing format, uncertainty labeling, and safe synthesis over volatile sources.

  • Week 7

    Automation & handoff

    Wired n8n schedules, alerts, and operator documentation for ongoing tuning.

Execution

How we approached delivery and implementation.

Approach

Delivery strategy

Kenstin split responsibilities cleanly: acquisition agents optimize for recency and relevance; summarization agents optimize for clarity, structure, and safe generalization. That separation makes failures easier to diagnose (retrieval vs.

generation) and allows tuning without breaking the whole chain. We also defined explicit freshness thresholds and fallback behavior so outputs remained useful even when source volatility spiked.

Solution

Implementation details

Agent 1 focuses on live Reddit and complementary web retrieval tuned to the user’s topic. Agent 2 transforms raw findings into concise summaries with consistent formatting-highlighting what changed recently, what is consensus vs.

speculation, and what may need verification. The workflow includes retry policies, source sanity checks, and operator-friendly alerts to maintain confidence in daily automation runs.

Outcomes

Measurable result

The pipeline reliably produced timely, scannable briefings from fast-moving sources, reducing manual monitoring time and improving situational awareness for teams that depend on up-to-the-minute context. Stakeholders could make faster decisions because updates arrived in a consistent format with clearer confidence signaling.

Tech stack

Technologies used in this implementation

The stack is selected for reliability, maintainability, and production readiness.

n8n
Reddit Search
LLM Summarization
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N8N Real-Time News and Reddit Insight Agent | Kenstin