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Workflows and automation

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Trigger automations from data changes, schedules or webhooks, and chain steps that touch the rest of your backend.

Build your first workflowHow it works

Works in the dashboard · CLI · Claude over MCP

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  1. 1How it works

    How workflows work

    Workflows run your backend logic in Anythink. A trigger starts a job, the job follows a chain of steps, and each step can use what came before it.

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  2. 2Quick start

    Build your first workflow

    Build a workflow that flags every order over 100 for review the moment it's created, then read its job history to see it run. About ten minutes.

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  3. 3Recipe

    Workflow recipes

    Six workflows to copy and adapt: Slack alerts, status emails, push notifications, a nightly clean-up, partner webhooks and chained workflows.

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What you can build

Real builds that use workflows and automation

Automation in your backend

Workflows fired by data changes, schedules or webhooks that post to Slack, email and push.

AI-operated backends

Claude reads and changes your project over MCP, and AI steps run inside your workflows.

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