🔥 Best AI Automation Tools: Nominate Your Favorites for the Product Hunt Orbit Awards
We just wrapped the Orbit Awards for AI Dictation and now we’re moving to the next category: AI Automation.
This one is for the tools that actually do work for you – clearing chores, running workflows in the background, or quietly taking over a chunk of your week without turning into another dashboard you have to babysit.
We’re digging into the AI Automation category based on traction and reviews, not hype. So we’d love your help:
Drop your favorite AI automation tools in the thread
Add a quick note on what they actually do for you day to day
And if you want them in the running for an Orbit, leave a review on their Product Hunt Hub
Think of this as nominations-by-use-case, not just vibes. Which tools have actually earned a permanent spot in your stack?
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@zapier I agree with Aleksandar. Been using those guys for years and they dont fail to keep up with AI and Integration progress.
@Instantly is a world-class solution for outbound email outreach automation. from contacts to email warm ups to out reach.
@Pipedrive hands down my CRM of choice. So so much faster and easier to setup and use then others in my oppinion and helps automate standard email, sms marketing against different customer segments.
@AdAmigo.ai quickly becoming the go-to automation solution for the ever-growing number of businesses advertising on Facebook and Instagram. AI-native ad design, automation through daily optimizations, bulk launching tons of ads, and your AI chat assistant who can audit and optimize your ad account. It democratizes ads so everyone can run them, and it automates the workflow so it becomes super fast and easy to run profitable campaigns.
I've read your vote, and I specifically looked into@AdAmigo.ai However, I'm still not entirely clear on what @AdAmigo.ai is used for. Is it to help advertising users optimize their ad placement strategies?
@AdAmigo @cunshu Hey hey! : )
It’s great to hear from you!!
Yes, pretty much!
Facebook and Instagram ads have become the de facto best growth channel for many companies.
But running ads is time-consuming, and Ads Manager is quite complicated.
That’s why many brands hire agencies, and agencies have to hire tons of “media buyers” to get the job done.
They stay busy launching new campaigns, designing and launching new ads, optimizing budgets based on performance trends, etc., etc.
It turns out AI agents can do this work incredibly well.
You connect AdAmigo.ai to your Facebook ad account (we are Meta Business Technology Partners working directly with Meta’s API).
Then AdAmigo runs a deep audit of your ad account and starts sharing daily optimization recommendations.
You can review and approve them, and the AI will then implement those suggestions.
You can also activate Autopilot for full automation.
For additional tasks, you can talk to the chat version of the AI, for example:
“I need to design new ads. What ads perform best currently?”
“I have these 5 new videos. Can you launch them, please?”
“I have a new product I want to promote. See the product image I uploaded. Design the ads, write the ad copy, and launch the best possible campaign strategy for it. You have a $50 daily budget to work with :)”
The AI chat agent then gets it done with or for you.
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We also offer more advanced tools for enterprise brands and agencies, such as account monitoring (anomaly detection), which alerts you to prevent setup mistakes, unnoticed sudden performance changes, hack attempts, etc.
And a bulk ad launcher for teams that want to launch dozens of ads all at once.
Thank you for the thread @aaronoleary:
@Zapier : Reliability and integrations. It connects to absolutely everything.
Day-to-day: I use it to process my meetings. As soon as a call ends in @Grain (my AI-notekaer), Zapier automatically grabs the transcript, synthesizes the key points and next steps, and sends a summary directly to my email. It turns 1 hour of talking into a 2-minute read instantly.
@Make Significantly cheaper for high-volume tasks.
@n8n The community templates are unmatched.
In 2025: I’ve started using @Manus specifically for generating detailed reports. It handles long-form content generation incredibly well.
Thanks for sharing this,@byalexai
I actually tried Manus after seeing your comment. It feels especially strong when you need coherence over length, not just quick answers.
Hi @aaronoleary, it's a great initiative to collect nominations / recommendations from the community versus keeping it 100% editorial.
I see a lot of biased comments and I love that makers and their teams are proud of creations. :)
Here are my unbiased nominations truly based on my use cases (I have no affiliation with any of these except for being a repeat hunter for Zapier on the request of the Zapier team and Comet for Android).
Comet Assistant (works on desktop and mobile) — I give it some tasks related to research mostly.
n&n — Their template library and now ability to prompt to build workflows will help a lot of folks automate their tasks.
Zapier — The OG of automation now with AI capabilities. I hunted two launches for them this year for their MCP.
IFTTT — Good for simple automation tasks and has a mobile app too.
Trace — Been using since its release. I usually just dump a rough prompt in and it builds a full workflow for me, which is honestly quite cool. I like that I can tweak the graph after if something feels off. Switching tasks between human and agents is super handy when the AI isn’t quite there yet. Would love better notifications when something fails, but overall it’s been alright.
Let me know if you need any assistance with content / review for any when you write the next Orbit awards post. I am reachable via email anytime. :)
Claude-Mem
I nominate Claude-Mem but clearly I’m biased :)
Jupitrr AI
Nominating @Trace
Short version: it helps me think. Long version: I throw in a goal, Trace builds a workflow, and I refine it from there. I’ve been using it for posting to Twitter as part of larger workflows. Would love a way to debug agent runs step by step.
Aikido Security
I really like the idea of @Trace (even though it's kinda rough on implementation side rn). I gave it a messy idea and it came back with a workflow that usually makes sense. Some tasks it flagged as automatable that I hadn’t even thought about. Also nice that I can flip a task back to myself when the AI struggles. Overall really cool idea and I hope it continues to improve!
Pally - AI Relationship Management
@Trace Very solid idea! Takes some time playing with the tool to get the results, but when it works it's very nice!
We went with @Trace at UniSub instead of trying to build our own workflow system. It does a good job of automating boring workflows, and the pricing makes sense compared to doing this ourselves. We’ve already saved a noticeable amount of time using it. Shared the full review here
SmartBotCoin
Recently launched @Obsess AI - Retail Agent for Shopify Merchants. check it out.