Automation sounds bigger than it really is.
For many people, the word immediately brings up images of complicated workflow diagrams, dozens of connected blocks, API keys, triggers, conditions, webhooks, and settings they do not fully understand.
That can make automation feel like something reserved for developers, operations teams, or people who enjoy spending an afternoon debugging why one step in a workflow stopped running.
But most useful automation is much simpler than that.
At its core, automation is just this:
