TL;DR: Automations are the work that runs without you. A new lead emails in and gets a reply, a logged task, and a Slack ping to your team, all on its own, 24/7. They are the Execution layer of Workspace DNA, the third pillar alongside Memory (Projects) and Intelligence (Agents). They listen for events (new email, new task, webhook, schedule), run multi-step flows with branching, looping and filtering, call 15+ frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and open-weight providers, plug into 100+ integrations across 10 categories, and write results straight back into your projects. AI agents can make the judgment calls inside a flow. Available on every plan from Free through Enterprise. Browse the full action and trigger catalog at /integrations. Build your first automation →
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Quick answer: what is a Taskade Automation?
A Taskade Automation is a no-code workflow that does a job for you while you are away. It listens for an event, makes a decision, and takes action across your workspace and 100+ connected apps, then writes the result back into your projects. Picture a solo realtor: a new lead fills out the website form, and before they have closed the tab, the automation has emailed them back, created their record in the CRM, and added a follow-up task. Triggers pull events in. Actions push work out. AI agents make the judgment calls in between. It runs server-side, 24/7, on a reliable durable engine. Build your first one free →
The bidirectional model in one line: Triggers pull events into Taskade (new email, new task, webhook, schedule). Actions push work out to your apps and back into your projects (send Slack, create deal, update field). Same workspace, both directions, no glue code.
David, the IT Program Manager who built a production "Service Pro Dashboard" on Taskade Genesis, put it this way: "What I did in weeks would've taken 40 people 18 months." The reason automations made that possible is that they live inside the same workspace as his data and his agents — so a flow can read a project, ask an agent, and write the answer back in one pass.
What are Taskade Automations?
Taskade Automations are reliable, multi-step workflows that listen for an event, make decisions, and take action across your workspace and 100+ external services — without you lifting a finger. Every automation follows the same model: a trigger kicks off the flow, control-flow steps (branch, loop, filter, delay) shape the logic, actions do the work, and results get written back into your Projects so your workspace keeps learning.
Unlike standalone tools like Zapier or Make, Taskade Automations live inside the same workspace as your data and your AI agents. That means an AI agent can be a step in a flow, a flow can update the very project that triggered it, and a published Taskade Genesis app can use its automations as the live execution layer for end users.