Starting the create flow
Tap New Employee from the AI Employees page. You can also start from a role template like Email Triager, Meeting Summarizer, or Slack Monitor — tap Or start from a role template on the create screen and pick one from the carousel. The card you pick shows “Selected” once it is ready.
Step 1 — Basic details
- On the screen titled “Create your AI Employee”, describe what you would like the employee to do in plain English.
- Choose who the employee has access to as — the whole workspace, a specific person, or your organisation.
- Pick an Intelligence level based on how complex the work is.
- Tap Next to continue.
Step 2 — Workflow editor
Step 2 is where the real magic happens. The workflow editor lets you chat with Zenning to build a series of triggers (what wakes the employee up) and actions (what they do). You can drop in apps, add conditions, schedule jobs with cron-style timings, and preview how a run will look.
- Pick a trigger — an event in an app, a schedule, or a manual start.
- Add the steps the employee should take. Zenning fills in most of the details automatically.
- Use the assistant chat on the side to adjust anything without editing the flow directly.
Step 3 — Review and publish
Step 3 summarises what the employee will do, which apps they will use, and who can trigger them. Here you can change who has access, rename the employee, and finally Publish.
Example: a Slack standup employee
A common first employee posts a daily standup summary to Slack. It is a good way to see triggers, actions, and Slack working together:
- In Step 1, describe it: “Every weekday at 9am, summarise yesterday’s updates and post them to our #standup channel.”
- In the workflow editor, pick a schedule trigger (weekdays at 9am).
- Add actions to gather context from your connected apps, then post the summary to the Slack channel.
- Publish — from then on the standup lands in Slack automatically, with no one having to write it.