Workflows, automated

Multi-step AI pipelines,
no code required.

Turn email chains, approval forms, and recurring busywork into auditable, automated pipelines. Mix AI reasoning, REST calls, MCP tools, approval gates, and human input — every run tracked, every approval logged. Built by non-developers, run by the business.

14 days free — no credit card required

The Nexil workflow editor showing a multi-step pipeline

Four building blocks, infinite combinations

Every workflow is composed from these four step types. Sequence them, fan them out, route between them — whatever the process needs.

AI Step

An LLM reasons over the prompt, input files, and prior step output. Attach Skills to give the step a domain vocabulary and live tool access. Returns structured JSON or free text. Choose any model per step.

Action Step

Call any REST API, send email via ACS, or invoke any MCP tool. Templated bodies, JSONPath response extraction. The non-AI work that has to happen anyway.

Approval Gate

Pause the pipeline until a human approves. Per-step participants, audit-trailed decisions with comments, deep-link emails to reviewers. Approvals are not optional — they’re first-class.

Manual Input

Collect values and files mid-flow. Field schema drives the form — text, number, checkbox, file uploads. For when the process genuinely needs a human in the loop.

Start runs from anywhere

Workflows kick off five different ways. Pick what fits the business process — a cron job for monthly reports, an email inbox for inbound RFIs, a webhook for system integrations.

Manual

Click "Start Run", upload files, watch the pipeline execute live. Initiator ACLs control who can launch.

Scheduled (Cron)

Daily reports, weekly digests, monthly closes. Five-field cron with timezone support.

Webhook

HMAC-verified inbound HTTP. Stripe-style or GitHub-style signatures. Idempotency-key support out of the box.

Email Inbox

Each workflow gets its own inbound address like support-{alias}@email.nexilai.app. Subject, body, and attachments land in run.input and run.files[] automatically.

MCP Poll

Poll any MCP tool every minute, fire a run on each new item. Built-in dedup via JSONPath cursor — perfect for "new Linear issue → triage workflow" flows.

Five battle-tested patterns, all shipping

The shapes real-world workflows take. Pick a template, or compose your own from the four step types above.

Sequential Pipeline

Steps run one after another. Invoice processing, report generation, data extraction.

Parallel Fan-Out

Multiple branches process in parallel, results merge. Multi-document analysis at scale.

Handoff Routing

AI classifies input and routes to the right specialist branch automatically.

Feedback Loop

AI checks its own output quality and iterates until it meets your threshold.

Supervisor

An AI supervisor dynamically routes between specialist agents for complex tasks.

Two shortcuts past the blank canvas

The hardest part of any workflow tool is the first run. We solved that two ways.

Describe it, we generate it

Don’t want to wire steps by hand? Type your workflow in plain English — "Process inbound RFIs: extract metadata, classify priority, route to the right engineer, send approval email" — and the AI generator produces a runnable config you can refine. Skip the empty-builder problem entirely.

Sandbox Preview Run

Test the workflow you’re editing without leaving the page — one click runs it end-to-end against a sandbox tenant, returns every step’s output inline, and auto-cleans up after. No polluting prod analytics with test data.

Start fast. Stay accountable.

Pick from a library of starter workflows, or build your own visually. Every run is auditable, every approval is tracked, and every participant has a single inbox of what’s waiting on them.

  • Six starter templates — invoice processing, resume redaction, monthly data report, IT triage, document quality review, grant review
  • Visual canvas — pattern-aware diagram view of your workflow (parallel fan-out, handoff routes, feedback loops drawn for you)
  • My Tasks inbox — every gate or manual-input step you’re a participant on, in one list, polled every 15 seconds
  • Audit trail — every approval and submission stamped with actor, timestamp, and comments
  • Versioning — workflow edits snapshot prior versions so you can see what changed and when
  • Idempotency — webhook handlers honour X-Idempotency-Key so retries don’t double-fire
The Nexil my-tasks inbox with workflow runs awaiting approval and input

The boring parts are baked in

Timeouts, retries, retention, alerting — production reliability isn’t bolted on, it’s the default.

Step Timeouts & Retries

Per-step timeouts and configurable retry with backoff. Transient API blips don’t fail your run.

Notifications

When a step needs human attention, participants get an email with a deep link — no more lost approvals.

TPM Budgets

Per-tenant tokens-per-minute caps prevent any one workflow from starving the rest. 429s with retry-after.

Run Search & Filter

Find any run by status, date, or free-text. Debounced search across hundreds of runs.

Run Retention

Terminal-state runs older than 90 days are pruned daily — predictable storage, predictable cost.

Cost Meter

MTD LLM spend vs tier allowance, projected end-of-month, alerts at 75/100/150% — in-portal and email.

What workflows actually do

The processes our customers run on autopilot — tracked, approved, audited, repeatable.

Invoice intake

Email arrives → AI extracts vendor + amount + line items → approval gate at >$5k → auto-post to accounting via MCP. Audit trail every step.

Weekly RFI status

Cron-triggered every Monday → AI pulls RFIs from SharePoint → summarises blockers → emails project leads with deep links to the source docs.

Resume redaction

HR uploads candidate batch → AI redacts name, age, photo, gender markers → manual review gate → redacted PDFs land in the hiring SharePoint.

Contract QA

DocuSign webhook fires → AI checks the executed contract against the playbook → flags exceptions → routes to legal if anything unusual.

IT ticket triage

Email inbox trigger → AI classifies (priority, category, owner) → opens a ticket via Linear MCP → replies to the user with the ticket link.

Grant review

Application uploads → AI scores against the rubric → multi-reviewer approval gate → decision email with rubric breakdown attached.

Stop running your business in email chains.

Pick a starter template or describe your workflow in plain English — the AI generator produces a runnable pipeline you can refine. 14-day free trial, no credit card required.

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