Back up your automations to GitHub every day automatically

Automatically saves a copy of every automation to GitHub each day and confirms it in Slack.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each automation in the account.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Starts itAn outside serviceRuns once per itemResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
Messaging & NotificationsFile & Cloud StorageDevOps & IT Operations
Connects
GitHubSlack

The problem it solves

If you rely on automated workflows to run your business, losing one to an accidental edit or outage can be a real headache. Remembering to manually export and save backups is easy to forget, and by the time you notice, the backup you need may not exist.

Who it fits

A team running business-critical automations that can't afford to lose them.

How it works

  1. A daily schedule kicks off the backup process
  2. Automations pulled one by one
  3. Files are committed to a version-controlled GitHub repository
  4. A Slack message confirms the backup finished successfully
What you get

Automations you never have to rebuild from scratch

You get a daily backup of every automation safely stored in GitHub, with confirmation sent to Slack.

What you get

A daily, version-controlled backup of every automation stored safely in GitHub.

What you need

A GitHub account and, optionally, a Slack workspace.

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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