Automatically back up your workflow automations to GitHub

Saves a version-controlled copy of every automated workflow to GitHub whenever it changes.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken; runs once per each active workflow.

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4) · Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Starts itA stepRuns once per itemA record or sheetOne path onlyResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Document Processing & OCRDevOps & IT Operations
Connects
GitHub

The problem it solves

If your automated workflows only live in one place, an accidental deletion or bad edit can wipe out work you can't easily rebuild. You have no history of what changed or when, so recovering from a mistake means starting over.

Who it fits

A business or ops team that relies on automated workflows to run daily operations.

How it works

  1. A daily schedule checks all your active automated workflows
  2. Each workflow is compared against the version already saved in GitHub
  3. If nothing changed, that workflow is skipped
  4. If it changed, the saved copy in GitHub is updated with a note describing the change
  5. New workflows are added to GitHub for the first time
What you get

Workflow backups you never trigger by hand

Every change to your automated workflows gets a version-controlled backup in GitHub automatically, so you always have a history to fall back on.

What you get

An up-to-date, version-controlled backup of every automated workflow in GitHub.

What you need

A GitHub account and access to your workflow automation platform's API.

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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