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> **Original source:** https://www.taskade.com/learn/automation?utm_source=openai

Automate workflows with triggers, actions, branching, looping, and enterprise-grade durable execution.

> **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](https://www.taskade.com/learn/genesis/workspace-dna), the third pillar alongside Memory (Projects) and Intelligence (Agents). They listen for events (new email, new task, webhook, schedule). They run multi-step flows with branching, looping, and filtering. They 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](https://www.taskade.com/integrations). [Build your first automation →](https://www.taskade.com/learn/automation/triggers)

![Building a Taskade automation with triggers, AI steps, and 100+ integration actions](https://www.taskade.com/static_images/learn/automation/schedule-flows.gif)

Watch Taskade automations run a real workflow:

### 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 it writes the result back into your projects. Picture a solo realtor. A new lead fills out the website form. Before the lead closes the tab, the automation emails them back, creates their record in the CRM, and adds 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 →](https://www.taskade.com/create)

> **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.

The IT program manager who built a production field-service dashboard on Taskade Genesis put it this way: _"What I did in weeks would've taken 40 people 18 months."_ Automations made that possible because they live inside the same workspace as his data and his agents. 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. They 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. Results go back into your [Projects](https://www.taskade.com/learn/projects/databases), 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](https://www.taskade.com/learn/agents/custom-agents) can be a step in a flow. A flow can update the project that triggered it. A published [Taskade Genesis app](https://www.taskade.com/learn/genesis/vibe-workflows) can use its automations as the live execution layer for end users.

[Read full article](https://www.taskade.com/learn/automation/automations-execution)