Write the state machine before drawing the workflow.
Trigger, canonical fields, owner, allowed transitions, retry policy, audit events, and stop conditions.
Approve the source of truth, data classification, permissions, and irreversible actions.
Plan my stackROLE DOSSIER / MODEL × ORCHESTRATE × GOVERN
See plan cost, the Lean route, and the human gate for every stage.
PURCHASE SIZE / ROLE TEAM
1 operatorPer-member plans scale with the team; account, site, usage, and one-time plans stay fixed until checkout.
MODEL × ORCHESTRATE × GOVERN
Automation builders map the business process, implement deterministic steps, add AI at judgment points, and require approval for irreversible actions.
MEMBERSHIP ROUTE / 5
PLAN DELTA / PROFESSIONAL → LEAN
| Tool | Professional | Decision | Lean | Monthly delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zapier | Professional$19.99/mo | Remove | Not included | Save $19.99 |
| Airtable | Team$20/mo | Change plan | Free$0/mo | Save $20 |
| ChatGPT | Plus$20/mo | Keep plan | Plus$20/mo | No change |
| Slack | Pro$7.25/mo | Change plan | Free$0/mo | Save $7.25 |
| GitHub | Team$4/mo | Change plan | Free$0/mo | Save $4 |
| Make | Not included | Add | Core · 10K credits$12/mo | Add $12 |
FRONTIER WORKFLOW / HUMAN IN LOOP
Trigger, canonical fields, owner, allowed transitions, retry policy, audit events, and stop conditions.
Approve the source of truth, data classification, permissions, and irreversible actions.
Versioned test fixtures, idempotent writes, structured errors, retry boundaries, and a replayable happy path.
Run destructive and duplicate-event tests against a sandbox before any production credentials are connected.
A schema-bounded classification or draft, evidence links, confidence metadata, cost ceiling, and deterministic fallback.
Validate the evaluation set, tool permissions, failure thresholds, and every claim that leaves the organization.
Approval request, exact proposed change, reviewer identity, decision log, alert, rollback runbook, and weekly quality sample.
A named process owner approves sends, writes, deletions, money movement, access changes, and production release.
RESEARCH SIGNALS / OFFICIAL SOURCES
Zapier MCP connects AI clients to its app catalog so a governed conversation can invoke actions in connected business systems.
help.zapier.com02Make AI Agents combines reasoning, deterministic scenarios, visible decision traces, manual approvals, and credit visibility inside one operating surface.
make.com03n8n can pause an AI tool call before it changes an external system and route the exact action and parameters to a human reviewer.
n8n.io04Airtable Omni can build apps and automations, analyze operational data, and create or update records while inheriting the user’s permissions.
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