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Make AI Automation Guide 2026

Rated 5/5 by our research deskAdded 2026-06-13

What it is

Make's May 2026 guide explains AI automation as a practical trigger-reasoning-action system and gives concrete examples across sales, marketing, operations, finance, and customer experience. It is especially useful for founders who need to turn messy inputs such as tickets, emails, invoices, or reviews into structured business actions.

Why we picked it

Excellent teaching bridge from "AI chat" to production workflow design, with clear criteria for when a process is ready for automation.

How you might use it

Your first automation is almost always simpler than you expect. The Automate Your First Workflow module helps you pick one small, repetitive task and connect it up. Start there. Run it once. Then decide what to do next.

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The guided path

Want the guided path? The playbook shows you what to build first, step by step.

Seven workflows. The best tools from this library, arranged into a sequence that gets your first automation running in your first session.