Next Gen Zap Workflows: Building Automation in Code
Zapier’s Next Gen Zap Workflows move automation from drag-and-drop builders into TypeScript. Here’s what code-first workflows unlock, and what the learning curve looks like.
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AI Skills in Notion Just Got a Lot More Useful
Three recent updates to Notion's AI skills (file attachments, automatic invocation, and team-wide defaults) have closed most of the gap with Claude. Here's what changed and why it matters.
How Knoxx Foods Built the Operational Foundations for AI
How Knoxx Foods built the operational foundations that make AI actually useful.
Why Notion Workers + Dashboards are my New BI Stack
After Notion's developer platform launch, Workers and Dashboards make a credible BI stack for most small teams. Why it's now my default recommendation, and where the warehouse-plus-Tableau setup still has the edge.
How NTUC automated social listening with Zapier, OpenAI, and ExportComments
How NTUC cut hours of manual work by automating social media comment exports, AI analysis, and reporting
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What I Learned Optimising a Multi-Turn AI Agent (the Hard Way)
Lessons from building multi-turn AI agents across Zapier Agents, Notion Custom Agents, and Relevance AI — covering context window management, system prompt bloat, sub-agent trade-offs, and context rot.
Skills > Prompts: How I Teach AI to Work My Way
How reusable AI skills across Claude, Notion, and Linear have replaced prompt engineering as the highest-leverage way to make AI tools actually useful.
What If Your CRM Worked the Way You Do?
We built a custom CRM in Notion — powered by 30+ Zapier automations, AI agents, and deep integrations — that tracks contacts, emails, meetings, deals, invoices, and leads automatically. Here's the full architecture.
The Future of Work Isn't (Fully) Agentic
When Meta's AI safety director lost 200 emails to a runaway agent, it wasn't a hack — it was context window compaction silently dropping her safety instruction. Here's why the future of automation is selectively agentic, and how to combine AI judgement with deterministic guardrails that actually hold.
Notion Custom Agents vs Zapier Agents: Which AI Agent Platform Should You Use?
Notion Custom Agents and Zapier Agents take fundamentally different approaches to AI automation. Here's where each one wins — and where it falls short.
How I Built a Content System That Doesn't Sound Like AI Slop
How I built a content system using Notion, Zapier, Readwise, and AI agents that produces original writing at scale — without sounding like everyone else.
