What is Codika?

A multi-tenant SaaS platform for building, deploying, and managing n8n workflow automations with AI-powered orchestration

Overview

Codika is a platform that turns natural language descriptions into production-ready n8n workflow automations. It handles the full lifecycle: building workflows, deploying them to n8n, managing credentials, tracking executions, and distributing automations across organizations.

The platform solves a specific problem: n8n workflows are powerful but hard to productize. Codika wraps n8n with multi-tenant deployment, credential isolation, version management, and a deployment pipeline that makes workflows installable and shareable.

What you can build

A use case is Codika’s fundamental deployment unit. It packages one or more n8n workflows with configuration, schemas, and metadata into a single deployable artifact.

Examples of what use cases do:

Use Case	Trigger	What it does
Email attachment organizer	New email arrives	Saves attachments to Google Drive, logs to Sheets
Daily inbox intelligence	Cron schedule (8 AM)	Categorizes unread emails with Claude, marks newsletters as read
CRM funnel reporter	Schedule + manual HTTP	Pulls Folk CRM pipeline data, posts summary to Slack
Proposal generator	User submits form	Searches similar docs via RAG, generates PDF proposal with Claude
Web search tool	HTTP webhook	Runs Tavily search, returns formatted results

Architecture

User request (form, schedule, webhook, service event)
  → Codika platform (credential resolution, execution tracking)
    → n8n workflow (business logic, API calls, AI processing)
      → Results returned to user (structured output, files, notifications)

The system has three layers:

Layer	What it does
Codika Dashboard	Web application where users manage organizations, projects, integrations, and processes.
codika-helper CLI	Command-line tool (npm install -g @codika-io/helper-sdk) for scaffolding, validating, and deploying use cases.
Codika Platform API	Backend that handles deployment orchestration, credential resolution, version management, and workflow execution.

How deployment works

Use case folder (config.ts + workflows/*.json)
  → codika-helper verify (validation)
  → codika-helper deploy (packaging + API call)
    → Codika Platform (version management, deployment records)
      → n8n (placeholder replacement, credential injection, workflow creation)
        → Live automation (accessible via triggers)

When you deploy a use case:

1. The CLI validates the folder structure, config exports, and workflow patterns
2. Workflows are packaged and sent to the Codika platform API
3. The platform creates versioned deployment records and a process instance for the user
4. Workflows are deployed to n8n with all placeholders replaced with real values
5. The automation is live and can be triggered via HTTP, schedule, or service events

Multi-tenancy model

Every deployment is isolated per user. When a user installs a process, they get their own process instance with:

• Isolated credentials (their own OAuth tokens, API keys)
• Personal deployment parameters (configured at install time)
• Independent execution tracking
• Separate activation controls (pause, archive, reactivate)

Organization
  ├── Projects (scoped workspaces)
  ├── Integrations (OAuth connections: Gmail, Slack, Drive, etc.)
  ├── Members (roles: owner, member, viewer)
  └── Process Instances (deployed automations, one per user)

Key concepts

Concept	Definition
Use case	A folder containing config.ts and workflows/ that defines a deployable automation
Process	The public, discoverable representation of a deployed use case
Process instance	A user’s personal installation of a process with isolated credentials and data
Placeholder	A template token (e.g., {{FLEXCRED_ANTHROPIC_ID_DERCXELF}}) replaced at deployment with real values
Codika nodes	Custom n8n nodes (Init, Submit Result, Report Error) that integrate workflows with the platform
Trigger	How a workflow starts: HTTP webhook, cron schedule, service event, or sub-workflow call

Next steps

Quickstart

Install the CLI and deploy your first use case in minutes.

Use case structure

Understand how use cases are organized and configured.

CLI reference

Full reference for all codika-helper commands.

Examples

Real-world use case examples with complete code.