Visual Logic for Business Automation
See Your Automation Think
Complex business logic shouldn't live in spreadsheets or your head. Genesis Flow Builder lets you design visual automation flows - connecting triggers, conditions, and actions on an intuitive canvas.
See the logic. Understand the flow. Control the execution.
Flow Components
Triggers
- Form submissions and data changes
- Scheduled times and intervals
- Webhook events from external services
- Manual activation and API calls
Conditions
- If/then branching logic
- Data comparisons and filters
- AI-powered decision making
- Multi-path routing
Actions
- Task creation and updates
- Email and notification sending
- External service integration
- Data transformation and storage
AI Nodes
- Content generation and analysis
- Decision making and classification
- Data extraction and summarization
- Agent task execution
Flow Templates
Lead Processing
New lead → Score with AI → Route to sales rep → Create follow-up task → Send welcome email
Support Ticket
Ticket submitted → Categorize with AI → Assign to specialist → Update customer → Track resolution
Content Publishing
Draft created → AI review and edit → Manager approval → Publish to channels → Track performance
Customer Onboarding
Signup complete → Create project → Assign tasks → Send welcome sequence → Schedule check-in
Building Flows
Drag and Drop
Add nodes to the canvas, connect them visually, configure each step
Natural Language
Describe your flow in plain English and watch Genesis build it
Templates
Start from pre-built flows and customize to your needs
Testing
Run flows with test data, see execution in real-time, debug issues visually
The Motion Layer
Flows are the "Action DNA" of your workspace - the nervous system that makes everything respond and execute. When you build Genesis apps, flows become the business logic that powers intelligent behavior.
Every trigger connects to your workspace events
Every condition uses your data and AI intelligence
Every action executes across your entire ecosystem
📚 Resources & Getting Started
Ready to build visual automation flows? Explore these resources:
🚀 Get Started
- Taskade Genesis — Build AI-powered automation flows
- Create Your First App — Step-by-step tutorial
- Community Templates — Browse and clone automation workflows
🧬 Understand the DNA
- How Genesis Works: Workspace DNA — Your workspace becomes your backend
- 🤖 Custom AI Agents — The Intelligence Pillar
- 🧠 Projects & Databases — The Memory Pillar
- ⚡ Automations & Workflows — The Execution Pillar
📖 Related Articles
Anatomy of a flow, and where the plan gates sit
A flow is four kinds of block, and the honest version of this page names which ones sit behind a plan gate, because discovering that mid-build is the worst moment to find out.
| Block | What it does | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Trigger | Starts the run | Schedules, record changes, and form submissions are available from Free; webhook triggers are Pro and above |
| Condition | Branches the path | Compare fields, filter records, or branch on what an AI step concluded |
| Action | Does the thing | Create and update records, send messages, and push data to connected tools |
| AI step | Reasons about the run | Classify, extract, summarise, draft, or hand off to an agent |
| Loop | Repeats over a list | A bounded for-each over a list resolved before the loop starts |
Two details worth internalising before you design anything ambitious. The loop is a bounded for-each: it walks a list that was resolved before the loop began, rather than looping until some goal is met, so a flow cannot spin indefinitely because a condition never becomes true. And a single run has a 500-action ceiling, which is a real number to design against when you are processing a large batch. Split large jobs across scheduled runs rather than trying to do everything in one.
Failure is the feature nobody advertises
Every workflow tool demos the happy path. What actually determines whether you can trust automation with real work is what happens on the bad day, when an API is slow, a service returns an error, or a rate limit hits mid-run.
Taskade automations run on a durable execution engine. A step that fails is retried, delivery is guaranteed, and a run does not fail silently and leave you to discover a week later that a third of your leads were never assigned. That property, rather than the node count, is the thing to compare tools on.
Describe it instead of drawing it
You do not have to place the nodes. Describe the flow and it is built, then adjust visually:
"When a new row arrives from the intake form, classify the request type, look up whether the company already exists in my accounts project, branch on that, assign to the account owner if it exists and to the intake queue if it does not, then post a one-line summary in Slack."
That is one sentence and it contains a trigger, an AI step, a lookup, a condition, two actions, and a notification.
Frequently asked questions about AI workflow builders
What is an AI workflow builder?
It is a tool for designing the sequence of triggers, conditions, and actions that runs a business process, with AI steps that can reason about the data as it passes through. The AI part matters where the input is unstructured, because a rule cannot classify a paragraph someone typed but a model can.
Can I describe a workflow in plain English instead of building it?
Yes. You describe the process and the flow is generated, including the trigger, the branches, and the actions, and you refine it on the canvas afterwards. That is usually faster than placing nodes, because the hard part is deciding the logic, not drawing it.
What can trigger a workflow?
Schedules, changes to records, and form submissions are available from the free plan. Webhook triggers, which let an outside system start a flow, are on Pro and above. Agents can also start flows, so reasoning and execution chain in either direction.
Can a workflow loop over a list of items?
Yes, as a bounded for-each. The loop walks a list that was resolved before it started, which means it always terminates. It is not a while loop that keeps going until a goal is reached, and designing as though it were is the most common mistake people bring from other tools.
What happens if a step in my workflow fails?
It is retried. Automations run on a durable execution engine with guaranteed delivery, so a transient error does not silently kill the run. This is the difference between a workflow you can put a customer-facing process on and one you have to check by hand every morning.
Is there a limit to how many actions one run can perform?
Yes, 500 actions per run. For most flows that is far beyond anything you will hit, but it is a real constraint when you are processing a large batch in a single pass. The pattern is to page the work across scheduled runs rather than fitting it into one.
Can a workflow call an AI agent?
Yes. An agent can be a step inside a flow, so the flow handles the deterministic parts and the agent handles the judgement, and the result feeds the next condition. Agents can also trigger flows, so the two layers compose in both directions.
Can a workflow connect to an external service?
Yes, in both directions. Triggers pull events in from tools such as Slack, Gmail, Google Sheets, and Calendly, and actions push data out to Stripe, Shopify, Notion, Salesforce, and GitHub. Browse the integrations catalog.
How many workflow runs do I get on the free plan?
Ten flow runs a month on Free, which is enough to build and prove a flow but not to run a business on. Free also cannot clone or import a bundle that contains automations, which surprises people who try to clone a community app with a workflow attached. Pro at $10/mo billed annually is the practical starting point for continuous automation.
Can I self-host this?
No. Taskade is fully hosted, which is the deliberate trade: you give up control of the runtime and in exchange there is no server, no upgrade path, and no ops work. If self-hosting is a hard requirement, whether for data residency or for control, an open-source automation tool you run yourself is the honest answer, and n8n's self-hosted Community edition is the usual choice there. Note that its licence is a fair-code Sustainable Use License rather than an OSI-approved open source one, and there is no free n8n Cloud tier.
How is this different from Zapier, Make, or n8n?
Those are dedicated automation platforms and they are good at being exactly that, with large connector libraries and deep configuration. The difference here is that the flow lives in the same workspace as the data it acts on and the agents it calls, so there is no connector between your system of record and your automation layer. Compare metering models on the automations page, or see best AI workflow tools and best n8n alternatives.