Real work,handled.

Use your own words to automate work across files, tools and messages.

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AUTOMATE.md

How it works

From a sentence
to a durable process.

Start

Instructions in plain English

Describe what needs to happen and when. Instructions are easy to read, edit, share across your team, and refine as your workflow evolves.

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Install in one click, customize to fit your workflow

Write your own

Create an AUTOMATE.md text file in any folder, keep automations close to relevant files

Triggers

Runs while you work

Built around familiar triggers, it keeps work moving in the background.

Shortcuts
Schedule
Website changes
Events
File changes
Attachments
Clipboard
Incoming emails
External systems

Works with your files and tools

With your explicit permission, it works with files and folders, email, calendars, Web tools and thousands of MCP integrations.

Control

You stay in control

Nothing happens without your say. It only touches what you have given it permission to access, and every run leaves a clear history of inputs, decisions, and results.

Privacy

Private by design

Use our secure zero-retention models, configure provisioned models, or run offline local models.

Capabilities

Start simple. Refine as you go.

Begin with a sentence, add rules when you need them, build into a full system. Same instruction, any complexity.

invoices / AUTOMATE.md

Choose the right foundation

A better way to keep work moving.

Where work gets stuck

Most of the work happens between your tools and files.

Checking, chasing, re-keying, deciding what counts as an exception and who needs to hear about it. It happens in inboxes, in spreadsheets, in messages — and none of it is in any system.It's most of the job, and it's the part nobody bought software for.That layer is where AUTOMATE.md works.

When the work lives inside software, the software sets the rules.

Each system owns one piece of the job. Once the rules are built into it, every change depends on the fields, steps, and permissions that vendor exposes. What fits can run. The gaps come back to your team.Years in, changing how you work means renegotiating what the software will allow — or replacing the system and rebuilding the work around it.Your way of working should direct the software, not live inside any one system.

The only copy of your process is in someone’s head.

New hires need weeks to learn the unwritten judgment behind it, while the people who know it become the ones everything routes through — whether they want to be or not.There is a written version — the SOP, the onboarding doc, the policy nobody has opened in a year — and it stopped matching reality long ago, because nothing ever ran from it.So when someone is away, the work waits. When roles change, the team has to reconstruct the decisions.AUTOMATE.md gives the written version something to do.

What to build on

Your own words are much more powerful than flowcharts.

Real work has thresholds, exceptions, and judgment calls. Flowchart builders turn every one into another node, branch, or workaround — until the diagram is harder to follow than the work.Plain English keeps the nuance intact: precise enough to run unattended, clear enough for the person who owns the work to review, and able to ask when a case is genuinely unclear.AUTOMATE.md turns those words into work across the apps your team already uses, without rebuilding your way of working inside any one of them.

Start with one bounded job, not the whole company.

Top-down agent platforms ask for broad access before they have earned broad trust. Start instead with one job you already understand — the invoice run, the joiner checklist — and put that job in writing.Each automation gets its own credentials and its own limits. It reaches only what that job requires, so access stays deliberate and easy to review.Add the next job when you're ready. It gets its own boundary too.

Technology moves forward. Your process comes with you.

OpenAI
Anthropic
Gemini
Today's best model gets replaced. So does the tool you run it through. Everywhere the process is welded to the software, that turnover means rebuilding what your team already figured out.Here the process lives in files you control, separate from whatever carries it out. Point the same instructions at a different provider, or at a model on your own machine, and nothing about how you work has to change.Improve the process, improve the technology, or replace either one — without rebuilding both.

Platform

Your process, your choices.
No compromises.

Format

Portable & shareable

An automation is a plain text file in a folder — nothing to export and no proprietary format. Diff it, review it in a pull request, or send it to another team, and it still runs.

Storage

Works where you work

Keep instructions next to the files they touch. Share processes through the same places you already collaborate.

OneDriveGoogle DriveDropbox
Models

AI model flexibility

Set the model per automation, weighing quality, speed, and cost for that specific job. Built-in providers work out of the box; changing one is a setting, not a migration.

Local
OpenAI
OpenAI
Anthropic
Anthropic
Gemini
Gemini
Grok
Freedom

No lock-in

The files are yours and they stay on your machine. Stop paying us and you keep every instruction you wrote — readable, editable, and runnable elsewhere.

Privacy

Local execution

Keep sensitive work on your machine. Run automations locally using open models like Llama, Mistral, or Qwen.

Keys

BYOK

Use your own accounts and keys for control at scale. Connect GCP, Azure, or AWS to manage rate limits, spending, and compliance.

Catalog

Across types of work,
from solo to teams.

From finance to HR to operations — run repeatable work across the systems and tools you already use.

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Sales

Prospecting, qualification, pipeline, and expansion workflows.

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Small Business

Quick wins for teams that need speed and clarity.

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Photo & Video

Organize, edit, and deliver media consistently.

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Finance & Accounting

Reliable close, reporting, and reconciliation workflows.

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HR & Recruiting

Hiring, onboarding, and people operations support.

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Marketing

Campaign and content operations for growth teams.

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Download

Built for safety. Set up in a minute.

Download the app, add an instruction, and let it handle the rest.

Nothing runs without your approval
Each automation scoped to restricted resources
Sensitive commands prompt for confirmation

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macOS 13+ · Intel & Apple Silicon

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Windows — coming soon

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Pricing

Simple and transparent.

Early Access
Free

Currently free during early access.

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  • Unlimited local instructions
  • No subscriptions required
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Paid plans will be introduced later, but your existing instructions will continue to work.

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