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Automations

Automations is an n8n-style workflow studio built into your workspace sidebar, not a separate app. You build a small graph of nodes on a canvas: a trigger that starts things off, then actions, AI steps, and logic that react to your projects, your AI providers, and the rest of the workspace, on their own.

Automations reference a chosen part of a project, the same page, frame, or slide model used everywhere else in the workspace. See Part-aware everything for the concept behind that.

What people build with it

A few realistic starting points, built entirely from nodes that run for real today:

  • A recurring content digest. A Scheduled trigger fires on a cadence you set, an AI step drafts a batch of copy, and an email node sends it to your inbox to review before you post it. See walkthrough.
  • An intake pipeline for an outside tool. A form builder, CRM, or chat widget posts to the automation's own Incoming webhook URL; the graph reads fields out of that payload, drafts an AI reply, and posts a heads-up to Slack or Discord. See walkthrough.
  • A lightweight review queue. When a design is saved, the graph picks the part that changed, branches on a condition, and either notifies your team in-app or logs it to the audit trail. See walkthrough.

Nodes has the full catalog these are built from, including which node types actually run today versus log an honest "not wired yet" step.

Get started in a minute

  1. Open Automations in the sidebar and click New automation.
  2. Name it. It opens straight into the full-screen builder.
  3. Drag a trigger onto the canvas, then a node or two after it; connect them by dragging from one node's connector to the next.
  4. Click Validate, then Test to run it once and check the result in the Activity view.
  5. Click Activate once you're happy with it, so it starts reacting to its real trigger on its own.

Where to find it

Look for Automations in the sidebar, inside your workspace's main navigation. Opening or creating an automation takes over the screen with the builder; there is nothing to install or open separately.