Automation Blueprint Explorer
Real automations, taken apart. Pick a blueprint and click any step to see what it does, what kind of step it is (trigger, action, AI, human, integration), and the concept behind it.
The anatomy of an automation
Automations look intimidating until you see that they’re all made of the same handful of parts. A trigger starts the flow (a schedule or an event). A series of actions do deterministic work. Some steps are AI (a model summarizing, classifying, or drafting), some are integrations (writing to a CRM, posting to Slack), and the good ones include a human checkpoint where it matters. Once you can spot those five kinds of step, every workflow you meet becomes readable.
The five blueprints
- Scheduled Report: a clock-triggered digest, fetch, analyze, summarize, deliver.
- Customer Support: triage and draft on a new ticket, with a human approving before send.
- Lead Capture: turn a form submission into an enriched, scored, routed lead.
- Incident Alert: react to an error event, categorize, branch on severity, notify.
- Content Pipeline: turn a firehose of sources into reviewed, published output.
Notice how often the pattern is the same: structure and guardrails from deterministic steps, with AI used for the one fuzzy task in the middle and a human kept in the loop for anything consequential. To build the schedule behind a trigger, use the cron generator. To understand how steps fire, see webhooks vs polling. For the bigger picture, read what is workflow automation and AI orchestration.