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It takes about five minutes to get you setup your own AI automation end-to-end without a single line of code just by plain language. Open up app.aident.ai in another tab and follow along.

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Create your first automation

Aident turns a plain-English description into a Playbook — a reusable automation you can run on demand, on a schedule, or when something happens in another app. Here’s the path from idea to running playbook.
1

Describe what you want

On Home in the left sidebar, you’ll see a big input with the placeholder “Describe your job and automation here to get started…”. Type a short paragraph describing the job — what should happen, which apps are involved, and how you’ll know it worked. Press Enter to send. You can attach up to 10 images if a screenshot helps explain.
Good starting descriptions:
  • “Every morning at 8am, summarize my client emails from Gmail and post the digest in #updates on Slack.”
  • “When a new row is added to my Google Sheet, create a task in Linear and notify the owner in Teams.”
The Home input where you describe your automation
2

Meet your Playbook

Aiden — the AI assistant — drafts a Playbook and opens it in the editor. You’ll see three stacked sections on the canvas:
  • 🎯 Goal — what the playbook should accomplish and what “done” looks like. Edit it like a rich-text field.
  • ⚙️ Integrations — pills for the apps your playbook will use, inferred from your Goal and Plan.
  • 📄 Plan — an Input card, the ordered Steps, and an Output card.
Aiden sits in a side chat that’s always available — ask it to reword your Goal, add a step, or rework any section. The initial draft can take a moment; hang tight while it finishes.
3

Connect the apps

Look at the integration pills in ⚙️ Integrations:
  • White pill — connected and ready to use.
  • Orange pill — you haven’t signed in yet. Click the pill to connect.
  • Red pill — something’s unresolved. Click Ask Agent to Fix and Aiden will repair the reference.
You can also manage all of your apps from Connections in the sidebar, which has tabs for Channels, Skills, Extensions, and Sandboxes, plus an All Integrations list.
Connecting integrations from the playbook editor
Don’t see the app you need? Request an integration and we’ll look into adding it.
4

Run it

Once all pills are white, it’s time to try it out.
  • Click Quick Run (or Start a new playbook run) to trigger an on-demand run right now. Use this to confirm the Plan does what you expect.
  • Open the Triggers tab to configure automatic runs: add a Time Trigger (for schedules) or an Integration Event trigger (for example, a new email or a new row in a sheet). You can also set the Input it receives and the Output it returns.
Quick Run button in the playbook editor
5

Watch it on the Dashboard

Open Dashboard in the sidebar to see every playbook you own. A status label next to each one tells you what’s going on:
A run is in progress right now.
The steady state — the playbook is set up and recent runs succeeded.
The playbook is paused waiting for you — usually an approval or a piece of input. Click in to respond.
The last run didn’t finish successfully. Click in to see what happened.
No triggers are active yet. Open the Triggers tab to turn one on.
Click any playbook to see its run history, open awaiting approvals, or jump back into the editor.
Dashboard showing playbook statuses
Need another automation? Click New Playbook in the sidebar to start fresh, or head back to Home and describe something new.

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FAQ

Open the playbook to see which step failed and why. Common fixes: reconnect an orange integration pill, click Ask Agent to Fix on a red pill, or ask Aiden in the side chat to repair the step. Then try another Quick Run.
Open the playbook and go to the Triggers tab. Confirm a Time Trigger or Integration Event is configured and active. If Dashboard shows Not Ready, there are no active triggers yet. You can also ask Aiden to set triggers up for you from the side chat.
That’s the Awaiting status on the Dashboard. Click into the playbook to review the run, approve or edit the pending item, and let it continue.
Edit 🎯 Goal to sharpen what “done” means, tweak the Steps in 📄 Plan, or ask Aiden in the side chat to adjust a specific part. Run Quick Run again to check. You’re in control — the playbook is yours to shape.
We’re in active beta and want to hear about it. File a bug in Discord and we’ll take a look.