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Only 1% of n8n Builders Do This! (Parallelization) #aiagent #n8n #artificialintelligence

Name: Only 1% of n8n Builders Do This! (Parallelization) #aiagent #n8n #artificialintelligence
Uploaded: 2025-07-09T14:13:00+00:00
Duration: 1 min 10 s
Channel: Dr. Violet Howard
Description: In this short tutorial Dr. Violet Howard demonstrates how to dramatically speed up n8n (referred to as NN) workflows by converting a set of sequential…

9 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this short tutorial Dr. Violet Howard demonstrates how to dramatically speed up n8n (referred to as NN) workflows by converting a set of sequential nodes into a sub‑workflow that runs in parallel. She first shows the sluggish behavior of an AI‑agent processing tools one‑by‑one, then uses the new n8n feature: selecting multiple nodes, right‑clicking, and choosing “Convert to Sub‑Workflow”. After naming the sub‑workflow, the nodes are encapsulated, linked, and executed. The demo then opens the sub‑workflow’s execution view, where four parallel runs are visible, illustrating the time savings compared to the sequential approach. The video is a practical, step‑by‑step visual guide aimed at n8n builders who want to leverage parallelization for faster AI‑agent pipelines.

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Here's how to run parallel executions in NN. So I don't wanna waste any time. I'm just gonna run a quick visual demo so that you guys can see how slow this is when you run something sequentially rather than in parallel. This AI agent is gonna process each tool and each research one at a time. So right now it's working on the first tool and we can tell because if I move this stuff down, you can see it's only done one item. Now it's gonna do the second one. Now it's gonna do the third one and so on. But if we would've had this agent running in parallel, this would've finished up like 20 seconds ago already. So in a recent update of NN, they added this cool feature where you can basically select select nodes, right-click, and then say I want to convert these 7 nodes to a sub-workflow. And what happens is when I click on this button, it's basically going to tell me to name my workflow. I'm just going to keep it as my sub-workflow for now. And when I hit confirm, it turns all of that into a sub-workflow, and it's already linked up right here and being called by this guy. So we'll go ahead and execute the workflow. It's going to grab our tools, it's going to pass them into the sub-workflow right there. I'll click into the sub-workflow and click on executions. And you can see right here, we now have all 4 of them running completely in parallel, and they're all gonna finish up a lot quicker than if the AI agent was doing an analysis on each of them individually. If you wanna watch that full breakdown, click on that play button right here, and I'll see you guys over there.