AI automation examples: 5 real things Zapier Sidekick has done

Zapier’s Sidekick pilot generated examples of AI-powered automations replacing recurring manual work across internal teams and customers. Use cases included automatically producing Enterprise deal analyses for about 55 cents each, extracting useful contact information from out-of-office sales replies into connected databases, scheduling nearly 200 meetings for an executive listening tour, helping an observability team expand target use-case coverage from roughly 25% to 75% in two weeks, and enabling customers to archive more than 800 inactive Slack channels or accelerate spreadsheet and scripting tasks. Many of these workflows combined Sidekick, Next Gen Zaps, Tables, AI classification, code execution, and integrations with existing apps, and several were built by non-engineers. Across the examples, tasks began as plainly described repetitive chores and became triggered or scheduled automations that delivered results in familiar tools such as Slack.

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