What does this automation do?
A daily sweep of open work is read by an agent that reports what is stuck, what is drifting, and what needs a decision today.
What can you do with it?
- See what changed since yesterday rather than the whole board
- Catch a stall on the day it starts, not at the deadline
- Get the reason a workstream looks stuck, not just a flag
- Read one email instead of five project views
The Steps
This automation runs in 4 steps:
- When Schedule — Every day
- Then Taskade — Find tasks
- Then Taskade AI — Ask an agent ("Flow Watchdog")
- Then Taskade — Send an email
What makes this different from a Zapier-style flow?
The "Flow Watchdog" step is not a one-off model call. It is a Taskade AI agent that knows your workstreams, owners, and normal cycle times, remembers yesterday’s state of every workstream, so every run builds on the last one instead of starting from an empty prompt.
A stateless "ask the model" step forgets everything the moment it returns. An agent keeps its knowledge and its memory between runs, carries its own tools, and can be handed work by other automations.
Who is this automation for?
Built for delivery managers watching several workstreams. A daily sweep of open work is read by an agent that reports what is stuck, what is drifting, and what needs a decision today.
How do you set it up?
- Open the "Automations" tab in your workspace.
- Click ➕ Add automation, then start from scratch.
- Add the trigger "Every day" from Schedule.
- Add the action "Find tasks" from Taskade.
- Add the action "Ask an agent" from Taskade AI. Point it at an agent called "Flow Watchdog".
- Add the action "Send an email" from Taskade.
- Enable the toggle in the top-right corner to activate the automation.
Prefer to describe it instead? Click Build this flow with AI above and Taskade wires the trigger, the steps, and the agent for you.