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“reach an 80% starting point in roughly 25 minutes”

As published on n8n.io. Captured by usedby on Oct 7, 2026.

What happened

Field Aerospace, an aircraft modification company, runs self-hosted n8n workflows behind an internal web app to draft responses to government solicitations, extract requirements into a matrix, and score newly published opportunities daily from Deltek GovWin.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of n8n and Field Aerospace, not ours.

  • $30,000“eliminated approximately $30,000 in annual software costs”
  • 15 to 20 minutes“is now produced in 15 to 20 minutes, depending on document size”

A proposal draft that previously required about two weeks of work from multiple contributors can now reach an 80% starting point in roughly 25 minutes, allowing teams to focus on pricing, evaluation, and risk reduction.

From the page. n8n.io, captured Oct 7, 2026

A general proposal to get to the 80% stage would have taken us probably two weeks of three or four people working on it pretty consistently. And now we get about an 80% solution in 25 minutes.

Shawn Tatum, Senior Program Manager, Field Aerospace. Source, captured Oct 7, 2026

What the story claims, and what we checked

We compared the story with its live page on Oct 7, 2026.

  • The figure: 25 minutesCheckedPrinted word for word on the page, near the name of Field Aerospace.
  • The passage quoted aboveCheckedCopied word for word from the page, near the name of Field Aerospace.
  • The numbers in our summaryCheckedEach one is printed on the page.
  • Field Aerospace uses n8nCheckedConfirmed line. Latest check across sources: Oct 7, 2026.
  • The result itselfNot checkedWe quote it; we did not measure it.

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