Operations · Multiple years
Relocation startup — side project to six-figure business using full automation stack
The problem
Bordr helps people relocate to Portugal. Founders needed to automate service delivery to scale without hiring. Every new order required manual coordination between form processing, payment, email, and record keeping.
First attempt
Started with Zapier. Founders found it too limiting for multi-step logic: 'Zapier is really good if you do one-two steps, for very simple tasks' — Richard Lo, co-founder. Switched to n8n for complex conditional flows.
Workflow diagram · grounded in source
1
Paperform
Trigger
2
N8n
Orchestration
3
Stripe
Payment
4
Postmark
Email
5
Airtable
Records
Reported outcome
Side project scaled to a six-figure online business in a handful of months.
Order processing fully automated — no manual intervention as volume grew. Founders focused entirely on growth, not operations. Self-hosted n8n kept costs near zero as transaction volume scaled.
Reported metrics
Time savedFull automation
Volume$100k+ revenue
Running sinceOct 2024
Reported stack
n8nPaperformPostmarkStripeAirtable
Source
Bordr case study: Workflow automation to scale a relocation startup (n8n.io + Medium)
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What did this team achieve with this AI workflow?
Side project scaled to a six-figure online business in a handful of months.
What tools did this team use?
n8n, Paperform, Postmark, Stripe, Airtable.
What results were reported?
Time saved: Full automation; Volume: $100k+ revenue; Running since: Oct 2024 (source-reported, not independently verified).
What failed first in this deployment?
Started with Zapier.
How is this operations AI workflow structured?
Paperform → N8n → Stripe → Postmark → Airtable.