AI isn’t slowing down. We’re moving from “ask a chatbot” to agents that run the multi-step workflows, use tools, and are built for real business processes.

Most teams aren’t blocked by ideas. They’re blocked by three things: complexity, cost, and control.

In our latest webinar, Ben Norris, AI Engineer at Civo, demonstrated how teams can break through these barriers by combining n8n’s visual automation with relaxAI’s UK sovereign infrastructure.

Here’s the practical walkthrough, from raw idea to production-ready AI agent👇

The "agentic layer": low-code, not low-power

Traditionally, building an AI agent meant a heavy Python stack and deep orchestration expertise. Powerful, yes, but also a bottleneck. Ben showed how n8n becomes the agentic layer, providing a low-code way to orchestrate tools, APIs, and LLMs on a visual canvas. With n8n, that means:

  • Simple to start, enterprise to scale: You can ship a workflow in hours that is sophisticated enough to scale with your business logic.
  • Keep logic lean: Orchestrate external services instead of hard-coding every step, and avoid the technical debt that quietly kills momentum.

Sovereignty is not optional

A major risk for UK enterprise AI is the hyperscaler data trap. Many global providers distribute workloads across international data centres, meaning sensitive IP can fall under non-UK jurisdictions the moment you hit send.

Why relaxAI?

relaxAI was built for teams that can’t afford ambiguity around data control. It is a fully UK-sovereign AI assistant, with models running on GPUs in UK-based data centres owned and operated by Civo.

Inference happens exclusively in the UK, on Civo-owned infrastructure, with no follow-the-sun routing and no jurisdictional guesswork.

Designed for control, not crossed fingers

Your data is encrypted at rest and stored locally on Civo GPUs, meaning your data never leaves UK borders. It ensures total compliance with GDPR and UK sovereign law, making it a strong fit for regulated industries.

Accelerate your performance with Civo GPUs

Enterprise clouds weren’t made for the AI era. So we built one that is. Civo AI puts the power of the latest NVIDIA GPUs and multi-cloud control in your hands without cost, complexity or lock-in. Work at the speed of your ideas, without draining your budget – and keep your data close, compliant and completely under your control.

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Build a sales lead agent end-to-end

To prove the power of this stack, Ben built a sales lead agent from scratch, a direct replacement for the manual research that drains sales teams every day.

What follows is a high-level walkthrough of how the agent works end-to-end. A step-by-step tutorial, including n8n configuration and model setup, will follow in a dedicated deep dive.

  1. The trigger: A user submits an interest form, firing off an n8n Webhook.
  2. Enrichment: The agent hits the Apollo API, instantly pulling LinkedIn history, tech stacks, and career milestones.
  3. The brain (relaxAI): Using the GPT-OSS model (crunching 250+ tokens per second), the agent scores the lead (0-100) and tiers them as Hot, Warm, or Cold.
  4. The output: The agent drafts a context-aware, personalized email and logs the entire journey into a Google Sheet.
"Now, we're seeing a shift away from that [simple one-shot, human-in-the-loop interactions] especially in businesses and enterprises where no agents are actually expected to solve multi-step rather complex problems completely unguided by humans... from a business perspective and a business process perspective we're actually seeing full end-to-end business processes completely being performed by AI." - Ben Norris, AI Engineer at Civo

Breaking the cost barrier

Global AI token usage has exploded by 130x in just two years. In this environment, cost efficiency isn't just a "nice-to-have,” it’s a requirement for operating at scale.

For teams running agentic workloads, the challenge isn’t just performance. It’s knowing what that performance will cost as usage grows.

High-performance inference, without hyperscaler pricing games

For a limited time, Civo is offering preemptible NVIDIA Blackwell B200 GPUs at $2.69/hr. With global supply constrained, this provides access to the throughput needed for heavy, multi-step agentic workloads, without long-term lock-in or inflated pricing models.

Predictable costs as you scale

While the B200 pricing is a limited offer, Civo’s broader pricing philosophy is not. It’s built around clarity and predictability as workloads grow.

  • No hidden egress fees
  • No opaque billing structures
  • No surprise invoices when usage spikes

The result: infrastructure you can confidently scale as your agents move from prototype to production.

Summary

The gap between the AI ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ is usually defined by infrastructure. By combining n8n’s orchestration, relaxAI’s sovereign intelligence, and Civo’s predictable compute, teams can deploy production-grade agents without legacy overhead.

The agentic future isn't about managing more people; it’s about managing 50 to 100 AI agents with a handful of human supervisors. With the right stack, that future starts today.

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