SmartStaff.io vs n8n

Does each execution produce a plan artefact before the first unit of work runs?

Can a person read that plan before the work starts?

Can a person rewrite, reorder or drop steps and then approve?

Out of the box, does a human have to approve something before side effects happen?

Is there a plan/run confidence score derived from checkable structure rather than asked of the model?

Does a correction on a finished run alter behaviour on subsequent runs without a human editing a prompt?

Evaluations are measurement-only; you change the workflow by hand. 'Memory' is conversation history. One partial exception, still not learning: a rejected tool call passes the reviewer's text back to the agent within that run only.

Can a person list what the system has learned, see where it was applied, and retire it?

Is a team of differently-roled agents a first-class product concept?

Can knowledge be attached to an individual agent and retrieved at run time?

Can Claude/ChatGPT approve or reject pending work through the MCP surface?

Does the platform mint an address that starts a run, as opposed to polling a mailbox you own?

Email Trigger (IMAP) watches a mailbox YOU own; no n8n-hosted per-workflow address is documented.

Is the product interface available in Czech?

Resolved from unknown to NO on primary evidence: the repository's frontend i18n locale directory (packages/frontend/@n8n/i18n/src/locales) contains only en.json. N8N_DEFAULT_LOCALE exists but there is no Czech catalogue to select. n8n also has no ARES entity and experts.n8n.io filtered to Czechia returns zero results — effectively absent from the Czech market.

Is there a durable process definition distinct from an individual run of it?

Can an individual tool call be gated mid-execution?

'Human-in-the-loop for tools': the workflow pauses and sends an approval request across nine channels; $tool.name and $tool.parameters expose what the AI wants to do.

Is there a review gate on the deliverable before it is sent?

Is there version history with a way back to a previous version?

Draft/publish with the published version pinned for production executions, plus named and protected versions on Pro and Enterprise.

Can two versions be compared side by side?

Side-by-side version diff with version pickers (n8n 2.11, 2026-03-03; 2.12, 2026-03-09), plus a git-backed diff against the repository.

Is there a promotion path between environments, or git-backed source control?

Git source control plus environments, Business/Enterprise only, instance-owner gated.

Can a run start on a schedule?

Can work be started from a chat platform?

Is there a machine credential, so server-to-server callers need not hold a user session?

Can the customer run it in infrastructure they control?

Community Edition self-hosting is free under the Sustainable Use License (fair-code, not OSI). Explicitly disallowed: 'Hosting n8n and charging people money to access it.' Embedding n8n as the engine of a paid product needs a commercial agreement.

Is there a SOC 2 Type II report?

Can you adopt a ready-made agent persona, as opposed to a workflow template?

11,127 community workflow templates — workflow templates, not packaged agent personas.

Can it consume external MCP servers as tools?

Does it expose itself over MCP to external AI clients?

Is that MCP server protected by OAuth 2.1 with spec discovery, rather than a static bearer key?

MCP OAuth consent screen with a scope picker (All / Read only / Custom across workflows, executions, credentials, data tables, projects), 'granted scopes enforced end to end' (2.32, 2026-07-21).

Can an outside system start a run over HTTP?

Is there a per-run record of what happened, step by step?

Is there a documented EU location for the customer's stored data?

'data is stored within the EU — on servers located in Frankfurt, Germany'. GDPR DPA with SCCs incorporated into standard terms.

Is there a documented way to constrain where the prompt is processed, or to bring your own model?

Is the vendor ISO 27001 certified (not merely 'aligned' or engaged)?