The Best AI Workflow Automation Tools | Orbit Award Nominees
We’re officially in nominees season for the Orbit Awards: AI Workflow Automation.
This category is the “how did I ever do this manually” corner of AI. The tools that connect the messy middle. They route requests, hand off tasks, chase down follow ups, update systems, and generally keep work moving while you’re doing literally anything else.
The products in the running are @n8n, @Taskade, @Zapier , @Trace , @Relay.app , @Gumloop , @Lindy, @Wordware, @Airtop .
Now we want the stories behind the automations. Which one is running your daily ops? Which one replaced a dozen tabs and a recurring headache? What workflow did you set up once and never looked back?
Drop your real use case in the replies. And if you want to really nudge the results and have your fave walk away with the crown, leave a review on the product’s Product Hunt Hub.
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Everyone always talks about N8N, but in reality, for non-technical use is just TOO complex. As a non-technical user, I have spent a lot of time in Relay, Lindy, Airtop and for me Relay is the way to go (soo intuitive + incredible support).
I use it for:
Finding relevant threads for my product on Reddit and drafting SEO optimized comments (super effective)
Monitoring brand mentions on Reddit
Monitoring customers' complaints about my competitors on Reddit
Scraping viral Linkedin posts, looking for leads with intent and checking if they are in my ICP
Monitoring pricing of my competition
Collecting tally emails and moving them to my newsletter on beehive
Loads of minor thing in Notion
And this is just top of my mind. I also use it for my customers btw. HUGE fan here :)
@pietro_montaldo This actually highlights a bigger pattern: the real value isn’t “automation,” it’s curation + guardrails. Tools like Relay win not because they can do more, but because they keep workflows simple enough that they don’t quietly break over time.
Curious — which of these flows caused you the most trouble before Relay (and why)?
@gnizdoapp Agree.
The biggest pain was workflows that depended on context — deciding what actually matters before triggering actions.
Once filtering and intent-checking came first, everything stopped breaking silently and finally became “set and forget”.
@pietro_montaldo @gnizdoapp I’ve seen this play out a lot. In my experience most automation fails not because the tool is weak, but because the decision about what matters is pushed too late in the flow. Once context and intent are missing, everything downstream becomes brittle. Tools that work tend to narrow choices early and make it harder to do the wrong thing. Less power, more constraint. That usually feels boring at first, but it is what actually holds up over time.
@pietro_montaldo Low-code wins for non-technical teams.
We’ve seen simpler flows work best when routing steps across tools via GTWY.
Clear handoffs reduce setup pain and breakage.
Excited to see @Relay.app on the list. I have attended all their webinars, sometime twice :), I really love how simple it is to setup and run automations through @Relay.app , I have created a few useful ones for me like conversion automation reports, competitor analysis.
@milasgai Nice those are solid use cases. I’ve noticed automations like that are most effective when they’re tightly connected to how users move through the site.
Out of curiosity, which part of your user journey do those workflows support most today acquisition, activation, or retention?
Fleak
Couldn't recommend @Relay.app enough! Love it!
I've used Zapier, Make, Workato, Relay.app and several others. Relay is one of the easiest to get started with, and their support team and turnaround time for new requests are amazing. I've built a recent integration between Salesforce and QBO for creating invoices once an order is entered as complete in Salesforce. I needed some additional functionality on the QBO create invoice side. I didn't expect any changes to actually be made and the Relay team turned my request around in just a couple of days. Highly recommend Relay.app.
We use Relay in day-to-day operations, and it’s become one of those tools we don’t actively think about anymore — which is kind of the point.
We’ve set up workflows around tracking, internal checks, and recurring follow-ups that used to live across spreadsheets, reminders, and “I’ll get to it later” notes. Now they just… run. Things get updated, nudges happen, and nothing quietly falls through the cracks.
What works well for us is that Relay handles multi-step, real-world processes without feeling brittle. Once it’s set up, it’s reliable, and we don’t have to keep babysitting it.
It didn’t just replace one task; it replaced a lot of small manual coordination that added up to friction. For us, that’s been the real value.
Strong vote for Relay.app.
@julia_duran1 This is the strongest signal of product-market fit IMO — when a tool disappears into the background. Many automation tools work at first, but get brittle with edge cases.
What’s your biggest “real-world messy process” that Relay handled surprisingly well? That’s where I’d expect the biggest differentiation.
I use @Relay.app everyday in my business and also teach it to my AI Playbook community. It just... works and is super intuitive.
Relay.app is superb; I've got so many automations running that help me streamline so many of our regular tasks. It's so easy to use and a this point I can barely remember how I managed without it!
Trace
Great to see 👾 @Trace being nominated among such great companies 🚀
Yada AI is running ops and GTM engineering work through @Relay.app and we are loving it! I appreciate the attractive UI and all the power it gives me and the team.
Relay is awesome! So user-friendly and intuitive. The team did a great job with UX & teaching sessions that show possible use cases.