Recorded: Feb 26, 2026
Day 3: Workflows
Agents are powerful in conversation. Workflows let you orchestrate them: running agents in the background, on a schedule, or in bulk.
What Are Workflows?
On Day 1, you learned how agents handle tasks through conversation. Workflows take this further by letting your agents run without you being there. A workflow connects agents and actions into a sequence that runs automatically.
On a Schedule
The simplest way to use a workflow is on a timer. Set it to run every morning, every Monday, or every hour. Your agents do the work and deliver results without anyone asking.
- Weekly report: every Monday at 8am, pull metrics from your tools, generate a summary, and drop it in Slack.
- Inbox digest: every evening, summarize the day’s emails and flag anything that needs a response.
- CRM hygiene: once a week, scan your pipeline for stale deals and nudge the owners.
On a Trigger
Instead of running on a clock, a workflow can fire in response to an event. A new row in a spreadsheet, a form submission, a Slack message, or a webhook from another tool. The trigger starts the workflow, and your agents take it from there.
- Lead routing: new lead enters your CRM, the workflow enriches it with company data, scores it, and routes it to the right rep.
- Support triage: ticket comes in, the workflow checks the knowledge base, drafts a response, and assigns it to the right team.
- Meeting prep: calendar event starts in 30 minutes, the workflow researches the attendees and sends you a briefing.
In Bulk
When you need to run the same process across a list of items, workflows handle that too. Point a workflow at a spreadsheet, a CSV, or any dataset and it processes each row. This is loop mode.
- Contact enrichment: take 500 emails from a spreadsheet and enrich each one with title, company, and LinkedIn profile.
- Content generation: generate a personalized outreach email for every lead in your pipeline.
- Data cleanup: standardize formatting across thousands of CRM records.
Tomorrow is your second challenge: build a workflow. Start thinking about a multi-step process you do regularly that could be automated.
