Solutions / Workflow automation
AI workflow automation with approval gates, not flowcharts
Describe the outcome in chat. Praxa runs it as a durable background job and stops to ask before anything consequential.
Objective: tell me when a competitor changes pricing or packaging, and why it matters to us.
- Pulled 14 new filingsTue 07:02
- Cross-checked against last weekTue 07:04
- Two competitors changed pricingTue 07:06
- Digest queued for your inboxTue 07:06
Paused itself. Nothing new for three runs — resume any time, or let it wait.
Praxa's AI workflow automation replaces the flowchart with a conversation: you describe the outcome, and a standing mission, watcher, or scheduled automation runs it in the background, retrying through failures and pausing itself when something needs your attention. Anything consequential still waits for your approval.
The problem
Zapier, Make, and n8n make you build the automation, not just want it
Every trigger-action builder hands you nodes, connections, and a bill that scales with usage you have to monitor yourself. You're the one assembling the workflow and babysitting it when a step breaks. None of them keep working on an open-ended goal without a flowchart behind it.
How Praxa does it
Delegate the outcome, not the flowchart
Standing missions that keep running
Give the agent an objective, up to 5 active at once, and it wakes on a schedule and keeps working in the background, even with the app closed.
Watchers and event-triggered wakeups
Tell it to watch a page for changes, or let a mission react to a real event, like an email arriving, instead of only polling on a timer.
Retries, crash recovery, and self-pausing
Failing steps retry with backoff, a reaper terminal-marks anything abandoned by a crash, and a mission pauses itself rather than spinning forever.
Approval gates on anything consequential
Automations stop and ask before a purchase, a send, or any other action with real consequences, enforced in code rather than a prompt.
60+ recipes to start from
Run one of 62 curated workflow recipes with a tap instead of assembling a chain of nodes from scratch.
Not a trigger-action builder
You get a worker, not a builder kit
Zapier, Make, and n8n give you plumbing to assemble. Lindy and similar agent builders make you configure your assistant like a project. Praxa is already a worker, with its own inbox, browser, memory, and research, that happens to also run scheduled and event-triggered jobs.
20 native connectors plus an open MCP server for anything else.
Big jobs fan out to durable parallel sub-agents that outlive a normal chat turn.
Every background job ends in a clear done, a classified failure, or an honest still-running, never a silent hang.
What it does not do
- Every mission and automation pauses for your approval before a consequential action goes through.
- Up to 5 active missions at a time.
- There's no visual flowchart builder. You describe the outcome and Praxa runs it.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best AI workflow automation tool for a small business?
It depends on whether you want to build a flowchart or delegate an outcome. If it's the latter, Praxa runs missions, watchers, and scheduled automations from a chat description, with retries, crash recovery, and approval gates built in, instead of handing you nodes to assemble.
Can AI agents replace Zapier?
For open-ended, ongoing work, yes: a standing mission can watch, react to events, and keep working without you wiring a Zap for every step. For simple point-to-point triggers you already have working, there's no need to migrate them.
Can an AI agent keep working on a task while I'm offline?
Yes. Standing missions run headless in the cloud on a schedule you choose, retry through failures, and keep going with the app closed, up to 5 active at a time.
How do I keep a human in the loop when AI automates tasks?
Every consequential action, a purchase, a send, anything that changes an account, stops for your explicit approval, enforced in code rather than as a prompt instruction. Watching and analysis keep running while an approval is pending.
How do I give my whole team access to one AI agent safely?
Connect a tool once for the whole team and access follows each person's role, with credentials that never reach a member's device. Approval gates apply the same way whether the automation was started by you or a teammate.
Describe the outcome. Let Praxa run the job
Open Praxa and start a standing mission, or talk to us about automating a workflow for your whole team.