Workflows. Unleashed: Why We Built Flomation

Andy Esser
Apr 13, 2026

Workflows. Unleashed: Why We Built Flomation

Every team has workflows they wish they could automate. We built the platform that makes it effortless.

There's a gap in every organisation. Between "we should automate this" and "it's automated."

The database backup that someone runs manually every Friday. The Slack notification that should fire when a deployment completes. The CSV that gets emailed to finance because nobody has time to build a proper integration. The monitoring script that lives on one person's laptop and breaks when they go on holiday.

These aren't unsolved problems. They're unsolved because the solutions are too expensive - too much development time, too many moving parts, too much maintenance. The tools that promise to fix it either can't handle real complexity or require a team of specialists to operate.

That's why we built Flomation.

What Flomation Is

Flomation is a visual workflow automation platform. You connect triggers to actions to outputs using a drag-and-drop editor. The result is a directed graph - a flow - that reads like a flowchart but executes like production code.

It ships with over 80 pre-built actions across 17 categories: messaging, databases, cloud services, Git, HTTP, file I/O, scripting, and more. If your stack uses it, Flomation probably connects to it. If it doesn't, the HTTP Request and Bash Script actions mean nothing is out of reach.

What Makes It Different

It's visual, but not a toy. The editor handles conditional branching, loops, switch statements, error recovery, and parallel execution paths. The same interface that builds a simple webhook-to-Slack notification also builds a 50-node pipeline processing thousands of records.

It runs anywhere. SaaS in the cloud, on your own servers, or a hybrid of both. The architecture separates the API, editor, and execution engine - each scales independently.

Security isn't an afterthought. Secrets are PGP-encrypted at rest, decrypted only in runner memory during execution, and never appear in logs or the UI. Environment-scoped variables mean staging and production credentials are completely isolated.

It scales from day one. Multiple runners, concurrent execution, lease-based task distribution, and atomic job claiming. You don't hit a wall at 100 flows and discover you need an enterprise plan.

The Numbers

  • 80+ actions across 17 categories
  • 10 trigger types - webhooks, schedules, Git polling, S3 changes, email, forms, QR codes, and more
  • 6 database dialects - PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB
  • Full revision history - every save is an immutable snapshot, every execution is linked to the revision that ran

What's Coming

Over the next eight weeks, we're going deep on each of these capabilities. One post per week. One feature at a time. We'll show you what Flomation can do - and why we think it changes how teams approach automation.

Next week: the visual flow editor - and why drag-and-drop doesn't have to mean dumbed-down.

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Flomation is free to start. No credit card. No sales call.

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Flomation is a workflow automation platform that connects your tools, teams, and processes into seamless flows. Visual editor. 80+ actions. Runs anywhere.