Workflow Systems

I’ve lost count of how many times my lead follow-up automations have just… stopped working. One day everything is fine — a Calendly booking triggers a Webflow CMS update, kicks off a MailerLite sequence, updates a Notion table for my own tracking, and sends a Slack message. Then silently, one of those hops breaks. Typically…

So I had this multi-Zap chain that was supposed to pull in Typeform responses, split them up by keyword, dump them into different Notion databases, and then Slack me the weird ones. Honestly, it worked fine for like three months — until a Tuesday when it suddenly started sending everything into the default Notion DB….

If you’re a one-person show using tools like Zapier, Make, or any of the Notion/Slack/Gmail automation combos, you’ve definitely hit that point where your zap just… spirals. 🌀 You build the shiny trigger-action logic, test it once, it works, and then a few days later you find 372 automated emails you didn’t mean to send….