Describe what you want to happen. AVA builds the automation.
Step 1: Describe the trigger and the action
Tell AVA what should happen and when. For example:
"When a Salesforce opportunity moves to Closed Won, send me a Slack message with the deal name and amount."
"Every Monday morning, generate a status report from our open Podio projects and email it to the team."
"When a new contact is added in HubSpot, create a matching record in Podio with the same name and email."
You do not need to know the technical terminology. Describe it the way you would explain it to a person.
Step 2: AVA builds and explains the flow
AVA will show you the automation she has built — trigger, conditions, and actions — in plain language. She will ask if the logic is correct before activating it.
If you want to change something, tell her:
"Add a condition — only trigger this if the deal is over $10,000."
Step 3: Test before activating
AVA will offer to test the automation before activating it. The test runs the flow with a sample record and shows you the output without making any real changes. Review the test result.
Step 4: Activate
Tell AVA to activate it. She will confirm and the automation goes live.
Managing automations
"Show me all my active automations." "Pause the Salesforce-to-Podio sync flow." "Show me the last 10 runs of the Monday report automation." "Why did the HubSpot flow fail yesterday?"
AVA can answer all of these from your automation run history.
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