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November 11, 2025•Eric Pelz•7 min read

The Three Layers of a Workflow: What Every Tool Gets Wrong

A solutions engineer watched me add a Slack trigger to a workflow and asked: 'Where's all the configuration?' The answer reveals why traditional automation tools make you work at the wrong level of abstraction.

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October 30, 2025•Eric Pelz•6 min read

What Is a Workflow, Really?

Companies avoid workflow tools because they don't see themselves as having "workflows." But the problem isn't that they lack workflows—it's that tools have made "workflow" synonymous with rigid, top-down procedures.

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