Automation you ask for, and edit.

Describe the work and Daciel builds the automation over your systems, with approval steps a person owns. What it builds is an ordinary graph you can open.

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Reminders

Projects

Recent

Renewals at risk

Board pack, October

Supplier terms review

Churn post mortem

Which accounts are at risk this month, and draft the outreach.

Worked for 41s · 6 steps · $0.12

Read9 accounts renewing

Read14 open tickets

Comparedusage against the last two quarters

Drafted7 messages, held 2 for a person

Nine accounts renew inside 30 days and three of them are the ones to worry about. Their ticket volume is up while usage is falling, which is the pattern that preceded every churn last quarter.

Salesforce

Zendesk2 sources, permission aware

Message Daciel

Automations run across the tools you already use.

One canvas behind every automation

Library

Everything the work produced, with who owns it and who can read it.

AllDocumentsSheetsFrom runs

Renewal brief, Acme

Document · Priya · Deal team

Q3 pipeline review

Sheet · Marcus · Sales

Supplier terms summary

Document · Ana · Private

Churn post mortem

Document · Marcus · Everyone

Board pack, October

Deck · Priya · Leadership

Access review

Sheet · Tom · Admins

Turn the renewal brief into an email to the deal team

Renewal brief, Acme

Chat

One composer, on every surface.

Vendor reviews

Q3 onboarding

Support desk

Website rebuild

Everything the renewal touched: the thread it started in, the artifacts it produced, and who is allowed to see them.

148 artifacts

Keep

Acme renewal

Payroll migration

Hiring: sales

Said once, kept for good

Any answer becomes an artifact, with an owner and a permission.

Slack

Gmail

Outlook

Google Drive

Notion

Salesforce

HubSpot

Zendesk

Jira

GitHub

Linear

Stripe

Zoom

Asana

Airtable

Dropbox

Box

Confluence

Intercom

Google Calendar

Monday

ClickUp

Figma

DocuSign

Trello

Slack

Gmail

Outlook

Connected from day one

The systems you already run, readable in one place.

Runs this week

RunOutcome and traceWhat it producedCost

1Renewal outreachApprovedRead the nine accounts renewing this quarter in Salesforce, compared each one's usage against the last two quarters, drafted seven messages and held two back for a person. 41s, 6 steps, $0.12...7 draftsTotal$0.12Model$0.09Tools$0.03

2Invoice chaseHeldMatched fourteen overdue invoices in Stripe against the support thread for each account, then stopped before sending: two of them are in an open dispute and the policy says a person decides...14 invoicesTotal$0.08Model$0.06Tools$0.02

3Monday briefingApprovedPulled every run from the last seven days, grouped them by workspace, and wrote the briefing into the Library with the trace attached to each claim so any line can be opened...1 briefingTotal$0.21Model$0.17Tools$0.04

4Access reviewApprovedListed every connection holding a write scope, checked each against the role that owns it, and flagged three that now outlive the person who created them. Nothing was revoked without asking...3 flaggedTotal$0.05Model$0.04Tools$0.01

Runs

Every step, every tool call, every cost, and who approved it.

Asked for in chat, running on schedule

Every Monday, pull the week's numbers and send them to the owner. When an invoice hits thirty days, start the reminder sequence. You say it; Daciel builds it as ordinary nodes, schedules it, and puts an approval where money or messages leave.

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RUN-2085

Chase the 14 overdue invoices

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Summarise every ticket Acme opened

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Check which renewals slipped a quarter

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Rewrite the onboarding mail sequence

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Renewal quote for Acme, send held

Salesforce

Priya approves

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Renewal outreach, nine accounts

Salesforce

Gmail

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Weekly briefing into the Library

Slack

RUN-924

Reconcile Stripe against the tickets

Stripe

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Tag the inbox by account

Outlook

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Pull usage for the at-risk accounts

4 steps

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Answer the RFP security section

Confluence

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Flag connections holding write scope

Waiting on Priya6 steps

Done48+⋯

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Monday briefing, written and filed

Library$0.21

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Churn post mortem for Q3

$0.14

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Board pack pulled together

$0.31

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Access review, three flagged

Approved$0.05

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Supplier terms summarised

Thread in #renewals

Marcus Hale9:12 AM

Acme wants a renewal quote. Their contract is up in three weeks.

Ana Duarte9:12 AM

Ticket volume has climbed every month this quarter. Read that before we price it.

Marcus Hale9:13 AM

So someone pulls usage, open tickets and the last two invoices. Three systems.

Priya Raman9:14 AM

And most of an afternoon. Hand it over and hold the send until one of us reads it.

Marcus Hale9:14 AM

@Daciel draft the Acme renewal from usage and tickets, hold the send

Two automations it builds first

The weekly report

Numbers pulled from the systems you connect, written up, and sent on schedule to the people you name.

Get started

Conversations

7 open · 4 answered without a person

Acme CoWhere is invoice 4417?Agent

NorthwindRefund for the duplicate seatAgent

StarlightCan we move the renewal date?Held

MeridianAPI keys stopped workingWaiting

BrightlineInvoice address is wrongAgent

KestrelDo you support SSO?Agent

HalcyonExport stopped at 10k rowsWaiting

The reminder sequence

Triggered by an invoice ageing past thirty days, escalating by email, text and phone, approved once by a person.

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Renewals

9 inside 30 days · 7 drafted, 2 held

Brightline$14kDrafted

Kestrel$9kSent

Halcyon$6kHeld

What is AI workflow automation?

AI workflow automation is a workflow tool where steps can reason: read an email and decide what it is about, draft a reply, pick the next action from the record. Conventional automation moves data between apps on fixed rules. AI automation adds decisions, which means it also needs approvals, because a step that decides can decide wrong.

How AI workflow automation works

Ask for the work

In the chat, in plain language. Daciel proposes the automation and shows the graph.

It compiles to ordinary nodes

Triggers, reads, decisions, actions, approvals. The same nodes you can draw by hand.

Approvals where it matters

Any node that sends, spends or changes can hold for a named person with an expiry.

It runs on schedule or on trigger

Daily, weekly, on a webhook, on a record changing. Durable pauses resume when a person answers.

Every run is logged

One run, however many steps, with each system touched and its cost. Failures do not count against you.

Automation tools, compared

Builders assume a builder. The rows below compare them with Daciel on how the workflow is authored, how a person stays in control, and how runs are priced.

	Best for	Channels	How a person stays in control	Published pricing
n8n	Technical teams that want an open-source canvas and self-hosting	Whatever you wire; no inbox or phone of its own	Wait nodes and human-in-the-loop forms	From about €20 a month for 2,500 executions; self-host free
Zapier Agents	Teams already on Zapier that want agents beside their Zaps	8,000 app integrations	Approval steps inside a Zap	400 activities a month free; about $33 a month on Pro, separate from task billing
Make	Visual automation builders who count operations	App integrations	None built in	Per operation; published on their site
Gumloop	Operators who want to build the agent themselves on a node canvas	Whatever you wire up; no inbox or phone line of its own	Human-in-the-loop nodes you add to the flow	Credit-based plans; published on their site
Lindy	Individuals and small teams building assistants that live in Slack and email	Email, Slack, calendar, phone via integrations	Confirmation steps you add	$29.99 / $99.99 / $199.99 per user, plus credits
Dacielthis site	Businesses that want agents set up for them in five questions, editable afterwards as an ordinary graph	Email, messaging, phone and a thousand connected tools; a canvas of ordinary nodes	Approval nodes with a named person and an expiry; every run logged with its cost	Contact Daciel for business plan availability and pricing.

Competitor pricing as published on each vendor's site, read 2026-08-19. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the row says so.

Ordinary nodes, no lock-in

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Daciel

ElevenLabs

Answers in a voice you would not know from a person.

Daciel

Twilio

A direct line of its own, answering from the first ring.

Daciel

Cloudflare

Domains provisioned and shielded at the edge before they are asked for.

Daciel

Anthropic

Frontier reasoning on the work, with the trace kept for every line.

Daciel

ElevenLabs

Answers in a voice you would not know from a person.

Daciel

Twilio

A direct line of its own, answering from the first ring.

Daciel

Cloudflare

Domains provisioned and shielded at the edge before they are asked for.

Daciel

Anthropic

Frontier reasoning on the work, with the trace kept for every line.

Daciel

ElevenLabs

Answers in a voice you would not know from a person.

Daciel

Twilio

A direct line of its own, answering from the first ring.

Daciel

Cloudflare

Domains provisioned and shielded at the edge before they are asked for.

Daciel

Anthropic

Frontier reasoning on the work, with the trace kept for every line.

Connects to

Nothing generated is a black boxEvery template compiles to nodes you can draw yourself

Approvals are nodesA named person, an expiry, and the run pauses until they answer

Runs are the unitOne run is one run, however many steps; each logged with its cost

Safe to automate. An automation that sends and spends is held to approval steps a person owns, and every run shows what it did.

How permissions work

Questions people ask before buying

Do I need to build workflows on a canvas?

You can, but you do not have to. Ask for the work in the chat and Daciel builds the automation as ordinary nodes. Open the canvas when you want to change it.

How are runs counted?

One run of a workflow is one run, however many steps it has. Failed runs do not count. Runs are included in the plan and bounded by a compute budget you can see.

Can an automation wait for a person?

Yes. An approval node holds the run for a named person with an expiry, and resumes when they answer, in the queue, in chat or on a call.

How does it compare with n8n or Zapier?

On raw primitives n8n is ahead and free. Daciel adds the inbound channel, the approval inbox, the phone and authoring by conversation, and every generated workflow stays an ordinary editable graph.

How is it priced?

No per-task or per-operation metering. Contact Daciel for business plan availability and pricing.

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