Aaron O'Leary

Nominees for the Best AI Workflow Automation Tools Orbit Award.

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We’re officially in nominees season for the Orbit Awards: AI Workflow Automation.

This category is the “how did I ever do this manually” corner of AI. The tools that connect the messy middle. They route requests, hand off tasks, chase down follow ups, update systems, and generally keep work moving while you’re doing literally anything else.

The products in the running are @n8n, @Taskade, @Zapier , @Trace , @Relay.app , @Gumloop , @Lindy, @Wordware, @Airtop .

Now we want the stories behind the automations. Which one is running your daily ops? Which one replaced a dozen tabs and a recurring headache? What workflow did you set up once and never looked back?

Drop your real use case in the replies. And if you want to really nudge the results and have your fave walk away with the crown, leave a review on the product’s Product Hunt Hub.

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Laurent Meyer

We use @Relay.app to automate all our ops (emails reminders, sms reminders). It has been great and thanks to the new table features, we reduced the amount of (vibe-coded) javascript that we had in these workflow.

Cool product, supports us in HR & SRE as well.

Rishikesh Ranjan
love @relay.app, so many in-built integrations.
Tommy Barav

I use relay.app and for me it is the go-to app. Love the simplicity of it and how easy to use vs. other tools in the market.

Zack Stevenson

@Relay.app is a 5 star tool. There's so many different use cases for relay. My favourite is how easy it is to use ai within automations and workflows. Like categorizing emails, writing draft summaries or responses, extracting structured data from documents or unstrucured sources and the list goes on.

Definitely recommend it.

Chris Latham

I've been using Relay.app for a while now, and it's become an essential part of my workflow. What stands out most is how intuitive it is, I was up and running quickly without a steep learning curve and when not the Support is brilliant.

The real value for me is in the time it saves on tasks that used to eat up hours of my week. But the feature I've come to rely on most is their weekly LinkedIn post review with recommendations. It's become gold dust for my content strategy, helping me understand what's working, what's not, and how to improve my LinkedIn presence week after week.

If you're looking for a tool that's both easy to use and genuinely helps you work smarter, I'd definitely recommend giving Relay.app a try.

Andrew Lee

Biased obviously (I'm the CEO), but we built Tasklet because the flowchart builders never clicked for me. You just tell it what you want — "summarize my inbox every morning" or "track mentions of X and draft responses" — and it handles the integrations and automation. No flowchart to set up & no drag-and-drop. Worth checking out if you want something more conversational / agentic.

Rodney Kuhn

I’ve been a long-time user of Make and Zapier, and Relay.app immediately stood out as a much more intuitive tool to build with. They were also very early to embrace and deeply integrate an agentic approach, which really shows in how flexible and powerful the platform feels today.

We’ve been using Relay to build an AI SDR for outbound selling, especially for nurturing and selling to existing relationships, and it’s worked incredibly well. Huge credit to Jacob and the Relay team too — they consistently publish some of the best content around automation and agents, with clear examples and real-world use cases. Highly recommended

Osman Ramadan

Should include @CodeWords in the nomination

andrew d

I had the pleasure of taking a course on building AI agents with Jacob Banks using relay.app I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly I was able to build an AI agent. I now use various AI agents to do all my background research. For example, I built an AI SEO optimization agent in literally 5 minutes. It scans Reddit and LinkedIn posts for pertinent content related to my industry and then summarizes it for me and writes it to an Excel spreadsheet for ease of reference. It also does SEO for my website. I love using the relay.app on a daily basis and I would highly recommend it for novice AI users as it's straightfoward to use and highly effective.

Andrew

Shubhra Srivastav

@andrew_d6 Thanks for sharing your experience - sounds quite practical

swati paliwal

I havent used them all but here is my take on the 3 I have.

Zapier - easiest / accessible, but pricey and sometimes limiting

n8n - powerful / production-ish, but complex for non-technical users

Relay - sweet spot (simplicity + reliability + support)

PS: make is also good.