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Show HN: AI for documenting and automating your business processes

https://www.workflow86.com/

Workflow86 is an AI copilot that designs and builds fully configured automated workflows and business processes from just a prompt or description.

All teams develop specific ways of doing things - how they intake service requests, respond to incidents, onboard contractors, handle bugs, hire new employees etc. These processes are important, but they often don't get documented, rely on lots of manual handling, and are fragmented across multiple SaaS tools. These processes also often live in rigid systems with workflows that are difficult or expensive to customize.

Workflow86 is an all-in-one platform for documenting and automating these internal business operations, procedures and processes. It comes with components like forms, tasks, tables, and nodes that handle business logic, making HTTP requests, calling LLM models, running custom code and more. You connect these together to build out workflows and processes step by step.

We started with a no-code, drag and drop interface but we realized that this still had a significant learning curve, especially for non-technical users that lack the time to learn how to properly configure and implement new tools. With advances in AI/LLMs, we saw an opportunity to reimagine the experience of building and implementing automated processes entirely.

With our AI copilot, you just need to describe what you need, and it handles the rest e.g. “Build a workflow for reviewing and approving new clients”.

The AI works to understand your requirements, asking questions if it needs more information, develops a plan, selects the appropriate tools/nodes, connects these nodes together and then fully configures each node. The end result is a complete workflow with fully configured forms, tasks, tables, logic and more, ready to test and run in just a few minutes.

The AI can even help you map or brainstorm ideas as notes on the canvas if you are unsure of what to automate or what a process should look like e.g. “Diagram out a best practice workflow for onboarding new engineering hires”.

Once a workflow has been created, you can manually edit it or ask the AI to make changes to a single step or the entire workflow e.g. “add a manual approval step if the client is located in the Asia Pacific region”. The AI syncs with the current state of the workflow including any changes you have made, designs the changes with an understanding of any impacts to the workflow as a whole, and then patches in the changes such as adding, removing and updating components.

The AI also has context about resources like tables so it can re-use existing tables across workflows (e.g. an Employee Details table across HR workflows) or create a new table if required. If you have connected any apps or credentials, the AI is also aware of these values and their scopes, so it can use them in any API request or custom code nodes as well.

You can choose to use the AI at any point and jump in to build manually at any point as well. The AI is there when you need it, in the background when you don’t.

Try it out and send any feedback our way!

Product documentation: https://docs.workflow86.com.

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