A workflow is a job written down once, in plain language, so it runs the same way every time. An automation is that workflow plus a trigger and the agent that carries it out. Describe the work and Zero writes both.
There is no canvas to wire up and no node graph to maintain. You describe the job, review what Zero wrote, and decide when it should run.
Say what needs to happen, which tools it touches, and what the finished result looks like. Zero drafts the workflow from that description and shows it back to you before anything runs.
The workflow becomes a reusable skill in your organization. Anyone on the team can run it, and improvements to it land for everyone at once instead of living in one person's chat history.
Attach a schedule, a new email, a calendar event, or the end of another run. The workflow becomes an automation that starts itself and reports back when it is done.
Every run leaves a full log of what was read, what was called, and what was produced. When the output drifts, you edit the workflow in language, not in configuration.
The recurring work that never justified an engineer but still costs someone an afternoon every week.
The Monday metrics summary, the weekly pipeline review, the monthly board update — pulled from live sources and delivered before anyone asks for it.
Watch a mailbox for the messages that matter, summarize them, and prepare the reply as a draft. The send stays a human decision.
Check a dashboard, a status page, or a query on a schedule and speak up only when a number moves outside the range you set.
Track competitors, a market, or a topic on a fixed interval and keep one running document instead of a new tab every morning.
Move what was decided into the CRM, the tracker, or the spreadsheet that other people read, with the same fields filled the same way each time.
Draft, illustrate, and format a recurring piece of content end to end, then hand the last edit back to the person who owns the voice.
A workflow is the instructions on their own — reusable, shareable, and with no schedule attached. An automation is a workflow bound to a trigger and an agent, so it runs without anyone opening a chat. The same workflow can sit behind several automations with different triggers.
No. You describe the job in a sentence or a paragraph and Zero writes the workflow. You read it, change the parts that are wrong, and save it. There is no canvas, no node editor, and no expression language to learn.
A schedule, a new message in a connected mailbox, a new calendar event, or another run finishing. Automations can also be started by hand whenever you want the job done early.
The person who owns the automation. It reaches a connected service only where that person has granted access, and only for the permissions they approved, so a shared workflow never gives anyone reach they did not already have.
The run stops and keeps its log, so you can see the step that broke and what it was working with. Nothing is retried silently against a live system.
Zero also covers generative services, team collaboration, and Slack and Teams. See the built-in web services it calls without an API key of your own, the models you can switch between, and pricing for what each plan includes.
Describe the work once. Zero writes the workflow, and you decide when it runs.