
Founder
Tariq Osmani
Founder & AI Automation Consultant
Solo founder of Smart AI Workspace. I build custom AI agents, n8n workflows, and end-to-end automation for B2B teams.
About me
I started Smart AI Workspace because I kept watching capable teams burn their best hours on work that software should already be doing — copy-pasting between tools, chasing approvals over email, manually reconciling data that lived in three different systems. The technology to fix it has existed for a while; what most teams need is someone who will sit with the actual workflow, design the right architecture, and ship something that runs reliably in production.
Day to day I design and build AI-powered automation for B2B companies — custom agents on Claude and OpenAI, n8n workflow architectures that span CRMs, comms tools and data warehouses, and retrieval pipelines that let teams ask questions of their own knowledge base. I'm hands-on through the entire engagement: discovery, build, deployment, and the boring-but-critical observability that keeps automations alive after launch.
Smart AI Workspace is intentionally founder-led. When you work with me you're not handed off to an account manager — you talk to the person writing the workflow. I write here regularly about what I'm shipping, what's actually working in production, and where the AI automation hype meets reality.
Focus areas
- AI agent development (Claude, OpenAI)
- n8n workflow architecture
- B2B process automation
- RAG and retrieval pipelines
- Workflow integrations (Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce, Google Workspace)
Recent writing
All postsn8n vs Zapier vs Make: Which Automation Tool Should You Actually Use in 2026?
A founder-led, no-fluff 2026 comparison of n8n, Zapier, and Make: real pricing at 5k records/mo, AI node support, self-hosting, and a decision tree.
Read postAI Agents & Autonomous Systems: How They Actually Work in 2026
AI agents moved from demos to production in 2026. Here's how the agent loop works, where it beats automation, and where it still breaks.
Read postGPT-5.5 Is Here: OpenAI's Push Toward Agentic Computing
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 just six weeks after GPT-5.4 — with a 1M-token context window, stronger agentic task handling, and a clear pivot toward autonomous multi-step workflows. Here's what it means for business automation.
Read postWant to work together?
I take on a small number of B2B automation engagements each quarter. If you have a workflow that's burning time or a process that should be running itself, let's talk.