Get a Slack alert before your website's SSL certificate expires

Checks all your websites' SSL certificates on a schedule and warns the right Slack channel before one expires.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken; runs once per each website in the list.

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4) · Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

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Starts itRuns once per itemA record or sheetOne path onlyResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Messaging & NotificationsSpreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
Google SheetsOpenAISlack

The problem it solves

It's easy to forget an SSL certificate is about to expire until customers start seeing security warnings on your website. Tracking renewal dates and knowing the right steps for each certificate provider is one more thing to remember.

Who it fits

Businesses or IT teams responsible for keeping multiple websites running without downtime.

How it works

  1. On a regular schedule, the system checks a list of websites stored in Google Sheets
  2. It looks up each site's SSL certificate expiration date and issuer
  3. If a certificate is close to expiring, it identifies the certificate type
  4. AI looks up the correct renewal steps for that certificate type
  5. A Slack message with the domain, expiration date, and renewal steps is sent to the right channel
What you get

Websites that never go dark from an expired certificate

You get a Slack heads-up with renewal steps before any of your websites' SSL certificates expire.

What you get

A timely Slack alert with the exact renewal steps for the certificate about to expire.

What you need

A Google Sheets account, an SSL checker API, an OpenAI API key, and a Slack account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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