The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

It means connecting AI tools—like ChatGPT , Claude , or custom models —to the apps and systems your team already uses, so they can help you automate repetitive tasks, surface better insights, and move faster. Zapier makes it possible to connect state-of-the-art AI models to the apps your team already uses. Then they layered in AI.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Common sales workflows include: New lead alerts : Notifying reps (via Slack, email, etc.) If your team lives in Slack, it can be helpful to consolidate all your notifications into one place.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier. Use one of the Zap templates below to easily send new Grain recordings to Slack , Gmail , or Discord as soon as they become available.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

At Zapier , ours is mostly emoji reactions—or reacji, as Slack calls them. Make Slack a more productive place to work Automate Slack As a fully-remote company , reacji allow us to quickly respond to messages without creating unnecessarily long threads with "I agree" and "aww" (for dog photos, obviously).

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 8, 2025

Zoom has cemented its status as the default video conferencing app, no matter if you're working remotely full time or just hop on an occasional video call. Zapier is a no-code automation tool that lets you connect your apps into automated workflows, so that every person and every business can move forward at growth speed.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Get started But pair Claude with Zapier, and it becomes part of something bigger: an AI orchestration engine that connects your apps, data, and logic across your entire processes. Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. It only takes a few minutes to set up.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

Zapier AI Workflow Automation Best For: Automating repetitive tasks across apps Zapier, already a go-to for no-code automation, launched AI-enhanced Zaps in 2025. Send a Slack message when a new Stripe payment comes in), and Zapiers AI will generate and optimize the automation for you.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

We lean pretty heavily on Slack for our day-to-day communication at Zapier. You could even say we push the boundaries of how much work can get done in Slack during our quarterly no meeting week. By integrating ChatGPT and Slack, I can send prompts and get responses without leaving Slack. Learn more about multi-step Zaps.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

Explore now The Zapier ChatGPT plugin lets you connect thousands of apps (like Google Sheets, Gmail, or Slack) and automate tasks directly inside ChatGPT. This saves you the time and hassle of context switching, as you can just ask ChatGPT to perform a task in another app for you. No unnecessary writing needed from you.)

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. Use these Zaps to collect those files from your file storage app or an AI transcription tool (like Fathom or tl;dv ), have Google AI Studio analyze and interpret them, then log them in Google Sheets or send them to Slack.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium. For Stone, that led to the creation of Jelly, a Q&A app and search engine that was later sold to Pinterest. The debut product to test this concept came out last year, through a partnership with music artist Arca to create an iOS app called Lux Aeterna.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A Y Combinator-backed app called Needl is helping users with that. Needl is a cross-platform application that lets you search across your local file system and accounts like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Notion and Slack. Users can customize shortcuts to launch the app and jump to the home view. Image Credits: Needl.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. If you're already using other Zoho apps or want a simple, integrated AP solution, Zoho Books is a great fit. Once approved, invoices post directly to your Zoho Books ledger.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Table of contents: Free CRM template for Google Sheets How to build a CRM in Google Sheets in 4 steps Connect Google Sheets to your other apps with Zapier Graduate to a simple CRM Free CRM template for Google Sheets To follow along with this process, I've created a free Google Sheets CRM template you can use.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

" Think: the colleague who regularly sends you three Slack updates and a meeting agenda by 8 a.m. Other times, it's reading a book or playing with dozens of apps to find the best one. Alternatively, you can Zapier to automatically create calendar events from your preferred to-do app.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

While Notion operates as a broader productivity tool to manage your projects, knowledge, and files, Obsidian works more as a highly flexible writing app. This process is unlike what you'd come across on any other note-taking app, which can make it confusing if you're not a deep tinkerer.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

ChatGPT is an app created by OpenAI that lets users interact with its AI models: GPT-3 (on the free version) and GPT-4 (in early access for paid users). The app takes the prompts you write and passes them to the AI model. Most of the apps on this list are also powered by OpenAI's GPT models. Chat experience. Extra features.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

AI-assisted enterprise automation Spend any time online and you might think AI is just about generating awkward headshots or robotic blog intros. You can add AI to your workflows to do things like summarize long Slack threads , extract key data from contracts , or categorize support tickets by tone or urgency.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Zapier Interfaces gives you the ability to create custom web pages and apps that can also pull in the power of GPT-4 via a chatbot component. In this blog post, I'll walk you through exactly how to create your own chatbot using Interfaces—and offer a few ideas on specific use cases. One of my favorite things they created recently?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

I considered and researched dozens of apps and did in-depth testing on the top 20 contenders to narrow it down to these eight form plugins for WordPress. How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier. For example, you could send a Slack message only to the employee who joined the call or email a summary to just execs if they were in the meeting.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Image Credits: OpenAI A host of early collaborators built plugins for ChatGPT to join OpenAI’s own, including Expedia, FiscalNote, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, Milo, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Speak, Wolfram and Zapier. “We’re working to develop plugins and bring them to a broader audience,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

But that doesn't mean relying only on text-based communications, like an email or Slack message. Or if you want to record your screen and your face at the same time, these screen recording apps will do the trick. At Zapier , we're huge proponents of collaborating asynchronously. Here's how to use it.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

5 things you should automate today Start automating The tools and features I've included in this article are all ones I've used in the past, but keep in mind: the apps you're already using might have similar features. Slack: Timezone Butler Another team I work with is UK-based but has a lot of writers in the US and Canada.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Bonus tip: You could even add a third Slack step to your Zap to notify your team so they get quick overviews of the data without going digging into your sacred spreadsheet.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier That's what project management templates are to project managers: replicable systems of organization that keep everything efficiently structured. Your team even gets a Slack notification so no one's left wondering what changed and when.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

Starting a new job is already a nerve-racking parade of awkward handshakes, mysterious Slack channels, and wondering if it's too soon to take your first bathroom break. It's a smarter, faster way to set up employees with all the apps, permissions, and hardware they need before they even figure out where the bathroom is.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

It can crunch vast datasets for that aha insight, prototype a web app for a partner, or rapidly test new product features while your team dreams up the next big thing. Using Zapier , you can connect your apps and orchestrate the entire process, setting up triggers, actions, and conditional logic that put the AI models to work.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 13, 2021

In this blog post, I’ll share what we learned setting up our remote-first startup. Uizard is a tool for designing mobile apps and websites that runs entirely on your web browser. We found that the tricks we learned and that are listed in this blog post are applicable in both of these contexts. Reason 1: P eople. Walk and talk.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

I spent a bunch of time in each of these apps, and here's how the Airtable vs. Google Sheets showdown went. Though both can do many similar things, Airtable is a database app and Google Sheets is a spreadsheet app. But not a lot else. Unless you're really , really , really into it.)

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Virtual Tools for a Smooth Workflow Think of tools like Slack or Trello as your virtual office’s backbone. Standardizing Communication Have you ever felt the weight of countless emails, Slack messages, and missed Zoom meetings? Slack for urgent issues. But what does being efficient mean? We’ve all been there.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

No two service-based businesses are alike, which means it can be hard to find an appointment scheduling app that works for you. In my years as a small business owner, I've experimented with several appointment scheduling apps—and I've learned what makes a tool stand out from the rest.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Instead of copying data between apps by hand or manually providing updates to your team, you can build automated workflows to handle the repetitive tasks. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. How does eCommerce automation work?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Let teams chat, share files and integrate with other apps through a communication tool like Slack. Then build your well-written blog posts around these terms and watch your traffic grow. Conversations between employees can be difficult to keep track of, especially as your business grows. Website builder.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

I tested both apps to see how their features compare and what teams they're best for. For example, in order to manage alerts, you're navigated to Opsgenie, a totally separate Atlassian app. Jira is also using AI to help create work items from Slack messages or Confluence pages, which is pretty slick.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Take a messaging app, for instance. And as more riders used the app, more drivers joined to benefit from the increased demand. Whether it’s blog posts, videos, or podcasts, content lets startups reach a global audience with just a few clicks. Now, Slack has cemented its position as a premier team communication platform.

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