Where AI and automation builders grow together. One real challenge a week, reviewed by people who get it, plus a feed of paid work to go after. Come build with people who are chasing the same thing you are.
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were stuck after a course
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What is Stacked?
And why builders want in
Fadairo Abdulrasheed
CHIMENEM WORLU
Aminat Oyedele
IFEANYI PETER OKEKE
Faith oni
Amaka Emelike
Syeda Samreen Ahmad
Nwokorie Patricia
Adedoyin Oluwafemi
Syed Athar Ahmad
Whether you just finished a course or you're switching into automation, there's a clear way up. Weekly challenges, builders a tier above you to learn from, and a room that keeps you shipping.
Real automation work, matched to your tier. As you climb, we surface vetted client gigs and paid apprenticeships, then point the people hiring straight at the builders who keep shipping.
n8n automation build
Remote · ₦80–120k
CRM data sync
Lagos · Paid gig
Workflow audit
Online · Free
Pay once to get in. Climb from Beginner to Intermediate by paying or by earning the stacks. Mentorship is the side door you apply through.
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one-time entry
Intermediate
or earn 850 stacks in 90 days
Mentorship
per 8-week cohort · by application
The weekly challenge
Every Sunday a new client-grade automation brief drops, pulled from actual freelance work, not toy exercises. Build it in n8n, Zapier or Make, record a short Loom, and ship it before the clock runs down.
Two builders at your tier or higher review every submission. Ship on time and you bank up to +40 stacks, the points that climb you from Beginner to Intermediate.
A real-estate agency gets 60+ form leads a day. Score each lead, assign it to the right agent, and drop a clean summary in Slack, with no duplicates.
Build it on
Reward
+40 stacks
Market value
≈ $350
How the week runs
Build. Submit. Stack up.
One challenge, four moves, seven days. Then it resets and you go again. The reps are the whole point.
A new client-grade automation challenge, pulled straight from real freelance work.
In n8n, Zapier or Make, then record a short Loom walking through your solution.
Builders at your tier or higher give real feedback, usually within 3–5 days.
Up to +40 for an on-time build. Climb the tiers and the monthly leaderboard.
The stacks system
Every rep is on the board
Stacks are how you move. Earn them for the work that matters, hold a streak, and climb the monthly leaderboard for real prizes.
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to the top stacker, every month
₦0k
grand prize, every quarter
Featured builds
Builder of the Week
Every week we spotlight two standout builds, one Beginner and one Intermediate: what they made, and where to find them. Ship something great and this is your stage. Sponsored: the Beginner pick wins ₦10,000, the Intermediate pick ₦20,000.
Beginner Builder of the WeekAI article draft generator
My worry wasn’t whether I could connect a topic to AI. That part is easy. My worry was: would the output be good enough that I’d want to use it? Generic AI writing doesn’t solve the real problem; it just moves the work from “writing” to “rewriting everything the AI got wrong.” So I built the pipeline around three things I didn’t want my AI doing: sounding like a stranger, making things up, and going unchecked. Tools: n8n, Google Sheets, Tavily, OpenAI, Google Docs, Telegram. What it does: A new row in Sheets with the topic and tone kicks it off. Tavily searches the topic for current information, keeping the article grounded in facts instead of the model’s memory. It pulls 1–2 samples of writing and uses them as a style reference. An AI writer combines everything into a draft, title, meta description, tags, and article. A second AI step reviews it, scores it, identifies what’s weak, and retries once with that feedback if the score is low. The draft saves to Google Docs, the sheet updates with its link and score, and Telegram notifies me when it’s ready.
Jeremiah Oche
Week 14Snap-a-receipt expense logger
I built a simple expense tracker using n8n, Telegram, OpenAI Vision, Google Sheets, and Google Drive. I can send a photo of a receipt, invoice, or bank transfer confirmation to my Telegram bot. n8n receives the image and sends it to OpenAI Vision, which reads the vendor, date, amount, category, and reference number. The information is then cleaned up and added to Google Sheets. Before saving it, the workflow checks if the image is clear and also checks if I have already logged the same expense. If the image is unclear, the bot asks me to send a clearer one. If it is a duplicate, it tells me that it has already been logged. For new expenses, the original image is saved to Google Drive, and the link is added to the Google Sheets row. One problem I had was that the image was getting lost during the workflow before it reached Google Drive. I fixed this with a Code node that brings the original image back before uploading it. At the end, the bot sends me a message showing exactly what was recorded, so I can quickly check that everything is correct.
Olumide Oke
Week 13New-signup welcome email
Here's what ti built: An automated onboarding flow that welcomes users the moment they confirm their email, and quietly follows up if they haven't started their trial after 3 days. Tools Used: Lovable — signup, confirmation, and welcome pages Supabase — auth, database, and triggers Resend — sends the confirmation email n8n — automation: welcome email, dedupe logic, and the 3-day reminder How It Works: User signs up → Supabase sends a confirmation email Once confirmed → n8n picks it up, sends a warm welcome email, and notifies the team on Slack If the user hasn't started their trial after 3 days → n8n automatically sends a gentle reminder Every step is deduped, so no one gets the same email twice The Result No more silent signups. Every user gets a timely nudge, automatically, reliably, with zero manual follow-up.
OLONADE JULIUS OLABISI
Week 12FAQ chatbot with contact capture
Built an n8n-powered FAQ chatbot with lead capture for Fitness Vision Gym, embedded as a custom floating widget on their live website (not the default chat trigger UI — a fully custom-branded HTML/CSS/JS chat panel). Flow: on first message, the AI agent (Groq, tool-calling) greets the visitor, acknowledges their question, then captures name, phone, and email before answering — using a structured output parser so leadReady, handoff, and reply are always separated cleanly. FAQ answers come from a Google Doc pulled in as an agent tool, so the client can update pricing/hours without touching the workflow. Captured leads log to Google Sheets and ping Telegram instantly. The standout piece: when a question is outside the FAQ, the bot notifies the visitor AND alerts staff on Telegram with full context — staff just hit "Reply" on that Telegram message, and their reply gets picked up by the workflow and injected live into the visitor's chat window as a labeled team message, via a lightweight polling bridge. No dashboard, no app — just Telegram. Also built: a 5-minute inactivity auto-end with in-chat countdown warnings, and a dedicated error-handling workflow that pings Telegram if anything breaks.
Feedback
0 builders·0 peer-reviewed builds
StackedHQ has been helping me stay consistent in automation. Personally, I'm someone who doesn't like putting my face in public, but StackedHQ has helped massively with that. The most impressive part has been populating my portfolio — before StackedHQ I had just 2 projects, and in the 3 weeks since we launched, I've added 3 more.
700 stacks · 13 builds
Daniel Awobodu
If I could plot a graph of my growth since joining StackedHQ, it will show how far I have come. And it is not just my skills, my LinkedIn is in the ups too. This community was exactly what I wanted when I submitted my capstone project and thought, what next?
1,200 stacks · 18 builds
Akogun Imoleayo
Stacked is the best thing that has happened to me in automation. I started learning AI automation without a community and no one to keep me accountable — that's changed within the span of three weeks. Presentation hasn't been my strongest point, but breaking down a workflow three times in three weeks is great progress.
535 stacks · 10 builds
Success Enyi
I learnt a lot from the reviews I got and the workflows I reviewed. My ability to present my work through videos is on the rise. I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. StackedHQ has provided me a torch to guide my way forward.
730 stacks · 14 builds
Emeka Amah
When I finished my training with TS Academy, I lost interest in AI and automation. StackedHQ helped me build that interest back, and now I build workflows outside the weekly challenge. I had a portfolio going before and abandoned it — StackedHQ got me adding projects to it again.
1,045 stacks · 15 builds
Opeyemi Joseph Ajayi
After my capstone, I almost gave up on AI automation because it felt too difficult. But since joining, I've built three workflows, gained confidence from the feedback and support, and even made my first LinkedIn post. I haven't landed a client yet, but I've landed a student I'm currently tutoring on the basics of AI automation.
175 stacks · 4 builds
Rachael Chidera Eneh
After my course I sat on projects for a month. I had other engagements and the ginger just was not coming. Since I joined Stacked, every week a project comes, and the people here push you to just do it and submit. I can automate things on my own now. I have not landed a client yet, but I know I will soon.
880 stacks · 13 builds
David Dickson
StackedHQ has been helping me stay consistent in automation. Personally, I'm someone who doesn't like putting my face in public, but StackedHQ has helped massively with that. The most impressive part has been populating my portfolio — before StackedHQ I had just 2 projects, and in the 3 weeks since we launched, I've added 3 more.
700 stacks · 13 builds
Daniel Awobodu
If I could plot a graph of my growth since joining StackedHQ, it will show how far I have come. And it is not just my skills, my LinkedIn is in the ups too. This community was exactly what I wanted when I submitted my capstone project and thought, what next?
1,200 stacks · 18 builds
Akogun Imoleayo
Stacked is the best thing that has happened to me in automation. I started learning AI automation without a community and no one to keep me accountable — that's changed within the span of three weeks. Presentation hasn't been my strongest point, but breaking down a workflow three times in three weeks is great progress.
535 stacks · 10 builds
Success Enyi
I learnt a lot from the reviews I got and the workflows I reviewed. My ability to present my work through videos is on the rise. I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. StackedHQ has provided me a torch to guide my way forward.
730 stacks · 14 builds
Emeka Amah
When I finished my training with TS Academy, I lost interest in AI and automation. StackedHQ helped me build that interest back, and now I build workflows outside the weekly challenge. I had a portfolio going before and abandoned it — StackedHQ got me adding projects to it again.
1,045 stacks · 15 builds
Opeyemi Joseph Ajayi
After my capstone, I almost gave up on AI automation because it felt too difficult. But since joining, I've built three workflows, gained confidence from the feedback and support, and even made my first LinkedIn post. I haven't landed a client yet, but I've landed a student I'm currently tutoring on the basics of AI automation.
175 stacks · 4 builds
Rachael Chidera Eneh
After my course I sat on projects for a month. I had other engagements and the ginger just was not coming. Since I joined Stacked, every week a project comes, and the people here push you to just do it and submit. I can automate things on my own now. I have not landed a client yet, but I know I will soon.
880 stacks · 13 builds
David Dickson
Who it’s for
Built for the post-course gap
You finished the course. You can build. But what, for who, and where do clients come from? That gap is exactly what Stacked closes.
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Short and honest
No. Stacked is a community of builders shipping real challenges, not lessons. You should already know the basics of at least one tool.
Expired challenges still count for your portfolio, and the 4 most recent earn reduced stacks. You never fully lose a week.
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No refunds after access is granted, except a payment error within 24 hours. You’re paying for a room of builders, not a returnable product.
Yes. Finish your n8n / Zapier / Make basics first. Stacked is where you go from “I can build” to “I’m earning.”
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