You've built your AI. It knows you, it's read your files, and it answers like you. Now the question is: does it only work when you're sitting in front of it?
That's the line between a chatbot and an assistant. And it's exactly what workflows are for.
The anatomy of a workflow
A workflow is a job your AI runs automatically. Three parts:
- A trigger — what starts it.
- Steps — what it does.
- A channel — where the result goes.
Triggers: what starts the work
- Schedule — run every weekday at 7 AM. Run at month-end. Run every hour.
- Webhook — your store backend calls a URL, the workflow starts. Your form fires it. Your monitoring tool pings it.
- Manual — you click run when the moment is right.
- From chat — a conversation reaches a point and hands off to the workflow.
Steps: what it actually does
- AI steps — generate text, chain prompts, combine multiple AI calls, evaluate results.
- Data steps — search your knowledge base, fetch from the web, run code, create files.
- Action steps — insert into a chat, send a notification, trigger delivery.
- Flow steps — conditionals and loops, so the workflow can branch like a program: if the summary is urgent, escalate; otherwise, file it.
Channels: where the result lands
- In-app — appears in your Tyrex AI notifications.
- Telegram — deliver to your own bot.
- WhatsApp — deliver to your own number (where available).
Three workflows worth stealing
The morning brief. Every weekday at 7 AM: read your calendar and notes, summarize what matters today, deliver to Telegram. You wake up informed without asking anything.
The customer triage. A webhook from your store page: fetch the new order, search your FAQ knowledge base, draft a reply in your tone, notify you for a one-tap approval.
The month-end report. On the 1st: pull the numbers from your spreadsheet, write the report, generate a PDF into your project. The PDF is waiting when you get to the office.
Why this matters more than a smarter chatbot
A slightly better chatbot saves you minutes per query — while you're at the keyboard. Workflows save you hours of your life by handling the recurring stuff without you. Same AI, but it's now doing the work you'd otherwise do at 7 AM or month-end.
That's the difference between renting intelligence and owning a worker.
Stay in control
Autopilot doesn't mean unsupervised chaos:
- Every run is logged — what happened, when, and the result.
- Pause or edit any workflow anytime.
- Failures notify you with the run log attached — nothing breaks silently.
- Approvals — when a workflow needs a human decision, it asks you on your channel and waits.
Start small
Your first workflow can be a one-liner: every morning, summarize yesterday's notes and send it to Telegram. Ten minutes to set up, forever useful.
Build your AI — the loop is free, and workflows grow with your plan.
Want the full details? Read the Workflows documentation.