What's New in Lodol: September

September was the month Lodol opened its library of ready-made workflows, learned to make a judgment call, gave your workflows a screen your team can use, and connected much more deeply with the apps most businesses run on. Here's what we shipped, grouped by what it lets you do, with links to the posts that tell the full stories.

Start from a workflow that already works

• A library anyone can browse. 161 ready-made workflows across 17 job functions, written and tested by our team, each with a page at lodol.com/workflows that shows every step before you add it. Add to Workspace copies one in, and once you connect its apps, it runs. More in Start From a Workflow That Already Works.
• Every template explains itself. Each template page now opens with a short overview and a note under every step, so you know exactly what a workflow will do before you add it.
• A head start for new workspaces. A new workspace asks what you work on and offers starter workflows to match, filed in a folder for each job.
• New this month. A weekly revenue up-or-down email, a personalized article for each lead, a daily low-stock and expiry check, a monthly profit and loss for each department, and a way to check the vendor behind a bank or card line. Our guides to five workflows for small sales teams and five finance chores to hand off show where to start.

Workflows that remember, decide and show their work

• A memory between runs. New steps get, set, delete and increment a stored value, so a workflow can remember where it got to or whether it already sent an alert, and keep a running count that never loses an update when runs overlap. See Workflows Can Now Remember Things Between Runs.
• A judgment call where a rule won't do. Set a condition to Use judgment and finish "This is true when…" in plain words. Lodol tells you how sure it is, borderline cases can take a path of their own, and only that one decision involves AI. See Let a Workflow Make a Judgment Call.
• A screen your team can use. Apps put charts, tables, forms and run buttons on top of your workflows, without code. See Apps: Put Your Workflows Behind a Screen Your Team Can Use.
• Triggers that hand over what they found. When a Stripe payment, a calendar event, a spreadsheet row or a Notion page starts a run, the workflow gets that item and its details. A new Google Sheets row arrives with its cells named by their column headers.
• Run again, from a finished run. A finished run has Run again in its header, which starts the latest version of the workflow on the spot, handy once you've fixed whatever stopped it. The run page's header, with Pause and Stop, now stays in view as you scroll.

The apps you run on, connected much deeper

Outlook grew from 1 action to 54 and Excel from 9 to 58, Slack now has 79 actions, and QuickBooks Online arrived with 79 actions and 7 triggers. Mercury, Intercom and Plaid joined the same week. What each one lets your team hand off is in Outlook, Excel, QuickBooks and Slack, Connected Much Deeper. Google Sheets also now saves what a workflow writes as if you'd typed it, so numbers stay numbers and dates stay dates.

New apps, by team

• Sales and marketing: Salesforce, Attio, Copper, Google Ads, Meta Ads, Amplitude and Customer.io.
• Support: Zendesk, Front, Freshservice and Jira Service Management, gathered with the rest in a new Help Desk category.
• Finance: BILL, Wave Accounting, Invoice Ninja and Harvest, and Xero grew from 3 actions to 20.
• Stores: Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Paddle and Shippo.
• Microsoft: Dynamics 365, SQL Server, Power BI, Planner, Azure DevOps and Entra ID, plus WhatsApp from your business number.
• People and IT: BambooHR, Remote, ServiceNow, Okta, Grafana, Snyk, and Amazon's EC2, RDS and CloudWatch, which now have a family of their own on the Integrations page.
• Data and AI: Snowflake, BigQuery, SmartSuite, Pinecone, AssemblyAI and Browserbase.

The Integrations page now ranks every category by how widely each app is used, so the one you're looking for is usually near the top.

A tidier workspace

The sidebar now groups everything under Build, Run and Manage, and Billing, Secrets and Values and API Keys each have a page of their own. A secret or value can be shared with every workflow or only the ones you name, with a Used by column showing which workflows can reach each one, and the step picker gathers Code, HTTP and Workflows into one Advanced section. Lodol also has a new logo.

New guides

How to save Gmail emails to Google Sheets, turn meetings into notes and follow-ups, triage support tickets with AI, automate onboarding and offboarding, write Slack alerts your team won't mute, and read invoices, receipts and contracts with AI. And ahead of October 1, Pay per Run, Not per Step explains how Lodol's pricing works from then on: a monthly allowance of runs on every plan, unlimited seats, and a run that counts once however many steps it takes.

See it for yourself.
Browse the workflow library, or start free and build your first workflow. Every release is on the changelog.