Automatically detect and fix failed automations before they pile up

Watches your automations for failures, diagnoses the cause with AI, and retries or alerts your team.

How the work actually flows

It repeats. Exactly one path is taken; repeats retries and rechecks failed run; runs once per each failed automation run; it retries when a step fails.

Pattern: Structured Loop (21) · Exclusive Choice (4) · Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA record or sheetOne path onlyPaths rejoinRepeat or finishResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
Messaging & NotificationsSpreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
OpenAISlackGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

Automations fail silently in the background, and by the time someone notices, the damage is already done. Sorting out whether it's a quick fix or something serious takes time you don't have.

Who it fits

Teams and agencies running many automated workflows who need reliable, hands-off monitoring.

How it works

  1. Checks for failed automation runs every few minutes
  2. AI classifies each failure into a specific cause
  3. Automatically retries or waits out temporary issues
  4. Sends a Slack alert when a person needs to step in
  5. Logs every failure for later review
What you get

Failures caught and logged before customers notice

Your automations get watched around the clock, with issues classified and retried automatically so your workflows keep running smoothly.

What you get

Automatically resolved failures where possible, plus a Slack alert and log entry whenever a person needs to act.

What you need

An OpenAI API key, a Slack workspace, and a Google Sheets 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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