Think clearly. Solve precisely.
Build reliable, observable & secure AI agents.
From a working chatbot to a production‑grade AI service.
Add fallback handling, real‑time observability (Grafana Cloud), security guardrails and automated lead‑gen email delivery without leaving the no‑code canvas. Code‑first developers can replace any node with a FastAPI or Node.js micro‑service for ultimate flexibility.
Who Is This For?
Pick your path, tighten your AI stack and watch your production‑ready chatbot run flawlessly.
No-Code Builders
Implement the safety net of fallbacks, monitoring dashboards and security without writing a line of code.
Code-first Devs
Utilize drag‑and‑drop speed, then dive into custom APIs (FastAPI / Node.js) for email, validation or advanced guardrails.
Full-stack & Ops
Implement observability, audit trails and SLA‑ready alerting with Grafana Cloud and Prometheus.
Product Leaders & Founders
Build a trustworthy AI sales‑assistant that captures leads, validates data and reliably notifies the sales team.
Learning Path – Step‑by‑Step
1. Kick-off & Mindset
- Define production goals – reliability (fallbacks), security (API‑key guardrails), observability and lead‑gen conversion rate.
- Success metrics – % leads captured, fallback‑trigger rate, mean‑time‑to‑recovery (MTTR) and observability coverage (metrics + logs).
- Mindset shift – from “prototype works” → “the system survives real‑world traffic”.
2. Tool Foundations
- Flowise – Orchestrates LLM prompts, fallback logic and calls the email backend.
- Weaviate – Vector DB for RAG – unchanged from Builder.
- n8n – Visual workflow engine for both the chatbot and the automation pipeline.
- NocoDB – Spreadsheet‑style relational DB that powers dashboards for devs and non‑devs. Replaces Firestore for lead storage, dead‑letter logs and audit tables.
- Prometheus + Grafana – Metrics & dashboards. Sign up for Grafana Cloud, create a Prometheus data source and add a simple “fallback_counter” metric.
- FastAPI / NodeJS – Optional code‑first backend for custom email logic, validation and rate‑limiting.
- Coolify (future Architect host) – Will eventually host Flowise, n8n, Weaviate, NocoDB, FastAPI/Node services and the Grafana stack on a self‑managed VM. No action needed now – just keep the Docker‑compose files ready.
3. Project 1: RAG Chatbot
- Add fallback chain
- Guard‑rail prompts
- Collect lead data
- Email the lead
- Coding opportunity – custom email backend
- Observability hooks
- Security hardening
4. Project 2: Automation Workflow
- Extend the Builder form‑to‑DB pipeline
- Validate & de‑duplicate
- Error handling & dead‑letter queue
- Optional code‑first enrichment
- Observability & tracing
- Security guardrails
5. Polish and Deploy
- End‑to‑end smoke tests
- CI/CD pipeline
- Configure alerts
6. Next Level Preview
- Self‑hosted VMS – Deploy the full stack (Flowise, Weaviate, n8n, Prometheus/Grafana, FastAPI/Node services, NocoDB) on a virtual‑machine cluster hosted on Hetzner Cloud, Hostinger VPS or any GCP/AWS/Azure instance.
- Coolify orchestration – All services run as Docker containers managed by Coolify, giving you one‑click roll‑backs, environment variable vaults and built‑in SSL.
- Zero‑trust security – Mutual TLS between containers, Vault‑managed secrets and OIDC for user authentication.
- Enterprise observability – Replace the free‑tier Grafana with a self‑hosted Grafana + Loki + Tempo stack for logs, metrics and distributed tracing.
What You Gain
- Production‑grade chatbot – Live lead‑gen bot that emails prospects in real time.
- Reliability & fallback – Automatic retry, circuit‑breaker and dead‑letter queue so a single failure never drops a lead.
- Observability from day 1 – Metrics & dashboards in Grafana Cloud (free tier) plus Prometheus counters for fallback rates, email and API latency.
- Security guardrails – Prompt‑injection detection, API‑key‑protected webhooks and role‑based write rules in NocoDB keep your data safe.
- Lead‑gen automation – Collected leads are stored instantly in a spreadsheet‑style NocoDB table and emailed to your sales team via a single Send_Email node (or a custom FastAPI/Node.js endpoint).
- Code‑first extensibility – Swap any no‑code node for a self‑hosted FastAPI or Node.js micro‑service that runs on Coolify when you graduate to the Architect track.