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AI agents & automation
Zapier
Automation glue that connects your apps and AI into workflows.
Automation glue that connects your apps and AI into workflows.
Zapier is an automation platform that connects the apps you already use, from Google Docs to Slack to Claude, so tasks move between them automatically instead of you copying and pasting by hand. You set up what Zapier calls a "Zap": a trigger in one app, like a new file landing in a folder, that fires an action in another, like sending that file to an AI tool.
Zapier connects more than 9,000 apps and is used by millions of businesses to build these workflows without writing code. Increasingly, it is also used to string AI models directly into the automation, so a workflow can pull in a large language model as one more step in the chain.
Alec Saluga runs this quietly in the background. In Episode 004, he set up Zapier to push his PLAUD Note recordings into Google Drive automatically. From there, in Episode 001, those transcripts flow into Google Docs and then into Claude, which turns them into proposals and follow-ups. Zapier is the connective tissue in that chain. It does not write the copy or record the meeting, it just makes sure nothing has to be moved by hand between the tools that do.
That is exactly why it stays in the stack. Zapier is boring by design, and that is the point: it is the layer that keeps a workflow from breaking when one tool hands off to the next. The takeaway is not to master every Zapier feature. Pick the one repetitive handoff you do most, exporting a file, forwarding a transcript, logging a lead, and let a single Zap do it automatically. One reliable connection beats a dozen manual steps.
Zapier is built for people who do not write code, and that is the honest pitch: you connect apps through dropdown menus and simple if-this-then-that logic, not scripts. The learning curve is real but small. Your first automation might take an afternoon of trial and error to get the trigger and action talking to each other correctly. Once one Zap works, though, copying the pattern to your next workflow is fast. If you can follow a recipe, you can build a Zap.
Yes, Zapier has a free tier. Free tier available; paid plans by task volume.
Free tier available; paid plans by task volume.
Alec Saluga used it in Episode 001 for automating transcript-to-AI workflows; Alec Saluga used it in Episode 004 for pushing PLAUD recordings into Google Drive automatically.
Zapier is built for people who do not write code, and that is the honest pitch: you connect apps through dropdown menus and simple if-this-then-that logic, not scripts. The learning curve is real but small. Your first automation might take an afternoon of trial and error to get the trigger and action talking to each other correctly. Once one Zap works, though, copying the pattern to your next workflow is fast. If you can follow a recipe, you can build a Zap.
| Category | AI agents & automation |
|---|---|
| Pricing | Free tier available; paid plans by task volume. |
| Free tier | Yes |
| Used live in | Episode 001 and Episode 004 |
| Operator(s) | Alec Saluga |
| Website | zapier.com |
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A former B2B salesman with no technical background who self-taught AI. He builds and deploys AI-driven marketing and websites, and has grown a following of over 15,000 teaching AI adoption.
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