In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are constantly seeking innovative solutions to streamline their operations and boost productivity.

Luckily, we find ourselves in an age of revolutionary technology that re-imagines the way organizations manage their workflows.

From automating repetitive tasks to optimizing complex processes, AI-powered tools are offering never before seen efficiency and agility, enabling companies to stay ahead in an increasingly competitive market.

In this article, we cover a few prominent AI applications solidifying position in workflow automation and examine how these advancements are reshaping the future of work.

Make

Alright class, today we’re going to be optimizing our workflow with AI. You may ask, but professor, what are we going to be optimizing with Make? Everything. We’re optimizing everything.

Make positions themselves as the all-powerful, comprehensive workflow automation tool. In comparison to other similar platforms, here is where Make shines:

• Clarity: Getting a clear view of scenarios is key to understanding processes and improving them over time (when necessary). This is a strong visual aid for grasping data flows and results.
• Error handling: Seeing and locating errors where they happen is not only important but also vital to addressing issues on a granular level.
• Flexibility: Our scenario editor makes it easy to rearrange, duplicate, share, copy and maintain workflows. There’s a lot less guesswork involved when everything is clearly displayed in front of you.

Make features 1600+ apps on their platform. In the grand scheme this is lower than other similarly positioned solutions, however, they offer 2x the number of API endpoints.

Use cases include Lead processing, Inventory & Supply Chain Management, Invoicing & Billing, Social Media Management, Project Management, and Company Data Management.

So whether you are in Marketing, Sales, Operations, Finance, IT HR or Customer success, consider how Make can bust your organizations silos to bring key data together.

Zapier

Zapier is a pioneer in the AI driven workflow automation space. Founded in 2011 by good friends Wade Foster (CEO), Bryan Helmig (CTO), and Mike Knoop (Head of AI), Zapier has paved the way for industry acceleration.

While the organization does utilize AI, they primarily focus on workflow automation and integration rather than raw AI features. The inherit nature of their offer makes it feel like artificial intelligence is being utilized in more places than it actually is. However, they use certain AI-related functionalities to enhance user experience and streamline processes. Some ways in which AI are incorporated include:

• Smart Suggestions — algorithms to provide intelligent suggestions when users are creating Zaps, helping them discover relevant triggers and actions based on their previous choices.
• Data Mapping and Transformation — mapping and transforming data between different apps more efficiently, ensuring that the information transferred in automated workflows is handled intelligently.
• Error Handling — analyze patterns of errors to provide more actionable error messages
• Adaptive Automation — adapt and optimize automation workflows based on changing user needs or evolving application interfaces.

However you look at it the fact remains that Zapier is one of the first to the game, having been established for over a decade they are an experienced organization you can trust to support you through the highs and lows of automating your workflows.

Bardeen

Bardeen is an AI automation platform to replace your repetitive tasks.

Founded in 2020 by Artem Harutyunyan (CTO) & Pascal Weinberger (CEO) with the mission to empower everyone to automate their work using AI, Bardeen helps users globally by removing friction from their workflows and automating repetitive tasks. Its product is loved by recruiters, sales teams, agencies and freelancers everywhere.

With funding from Insight Partners, 468 Capital, FirstMark Capital and others, Bardeen’s proactive automation platform helps knowledge workers automate repetitive tasks and allows them to control web apps from anywhere.

Listen, the fact of the matter is that I’m a sucker for any company that uses memes in their marketing efforts. On January 18th, 2024, Bardeen founders released an article announcing Bardeen 2.0, they tout an impressive group of AI driven additions to their application.

This new toolbox of actions that let you bring AI to every workflow include message writing, classification, and even generating entire research reports.

Browser Agent — The Browser Agent works in real-time using your browser to complete any task you give it. An example being, ask the Browser Agent to describe the value proposition of a list of companies. To do that, it traverses the website, finds the information, and summarizes its reasoning — all you have to do is ask. These could be target accounts for your sales team, a recruitment candidate’s place of work, or even competitors you want to monitor.

Categorizer — Train an AI to categorize emails, leads, and even full-page documents. As an example, build a workflow to flag interesting partnership opportunities in our inbox. You can also use this to qualify sales leads, categorize candidates based on experience, or even filter out those pesky cold outbound emails from your inbox.

Message Generator — A message is only as good as the information you use to write it. Bardeen is unique in the range and detail of information it can gather for you automatically — here, they directly generate a sales email from the LinkedIn profile of a lead. You can also use the Message Generator for LinkedIn messages, timely email follow-ups, or even text messages.

Research Generator — You don’t need to spend all day Googling and scouring multiple websites; use this instead. Their Research Generator uses AI to craft a report using information from sources like LinkedIn, company websites, and even Apollo.io. Here they create a detailed company overview packed with details from LinkedIn, Alexa, and Apollo.io — all you need to provide is the target company’s website address.

With the recent additions via Bardeen 2.0 and their long history of success, Bardeen is a useful, accessible option in the world of automation that continues to show signs of growth in product & portfolio.

In summary

A cresting wave has captured our vulnerable world in its wrath, AI is here and it is infiltrating every market and industry. There are two types of people who benefit from this change. Creators, who innovate and profit from their creation. And those who benefit from the pioneers, feasting on the fruits of their labors by adopting their technology oriented solutions.

AI as a whole is there to automate otherwise arduous, repetitive tasks. At the forefront of Workflow Automation, we’ve seen how some organizations are leveraging AI to grease the automation wheels.

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