{"id":82289,"title":"Manaflow - Build and manage your dream AI operations team","tagline":"Automate workflows involving data analysis, API calls, and business actions. ","body":"### **🛎️ TL;DR**\n\n* [**Manaflow**](https://manaflow.ai/) empowers **operation managers** to automate workflows involving data analysis, API calls, and business actions.\n* You can **command Manaflow agents in English** to execute recurring tasks and manage them on a spreadsheet interface. \n* Think of us as an **AI-first Zapier alternative** but with natural language and spreadsheets. \n* **Frustrated with repetitive manual tasks** in your business? We’ll automate them all for you. [**Let’s chat**](https://cal.com/team/manaflow/meeting)**.**\n\n### **🗂️ The Problem: Too much Excel, too much manual stuff, too much repetition**\n\nAre you tired of **juggling countless Excel files and manual workflows for your business**? Do these workflows prevent your business from scaling up?\n\nAfter **conducting over 250 calls**, we've discovered a recurring problem: **small-to-mid-sized businesses (SMBs)** rely heavily on folders of Excel files and third-party apps to **manually execute their day-to-day operations**, which is **time-consuming, error-prone, and a huge bottleneck to scaling**. \n\nFor instance, in freight forwarders, operations include managing client communications, inventory oversight, and coordinating delivery schedules, most of which are done manually. These **manual processes** not only **decelerate business growth** but also **heighten the risk of mistakes**.\n\nToday’s operation managers are blocked by a lack of **technical knowledge,** **customization,** **and** **simplicity** in current workflow automation builders.\n\n### **💡 Introducing MANAFLOW: Automate operations workflows with AI**\n\nWe are building **Manaflow** specifically for **underdog SMBs to scale** like their tech-enabled, big corporation counterparts, transforming manual spreadsheet and software tasks into **automated end-to-end workflows**.\n\nThe ideal way to execute workflows is not for a human to manually operate Excel sheets or interface with different software apps but for a human to **merely click a button**. \n\n**AI can own end-to-end technical workflows** and convert them into features, while **humans can oversee** them, update them as the business evolves, and tackle higher-level automations. Let’s see this in **action**.\n\n### **📕 Building a Basic Workflow on Manaflow**\n\nWe’ll begin by building a fun, basic workflow on Manaflow to **send payment reminders to clients** via email.\n\n[Manaflow Demo: Building Sending Payment Reminders Workflow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGbJN7pNb30)\n\nNext, we’ll go into more specific examples of potential use cases for business customers.\n\n### **📸 Manaflow Workflow #1: Watermark videos and send them to your clients via Gmail**\n\nOne of our customers uses Manaflow to take in unpolished videos from Google Drive, process them, watermark them with their logo, and then email the final products to their clients — **all in one click of a button**. \n\n[Manaflow Demo: Watermarking Video Workflow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTTTRrzICVg)\n\nThis has **cut their** **20-hour weekly manual workflow down to 20 minutes**, and Manaflow has become a core part of their operations.\n\n### **🛻 Manaflow Workflow #2: Find and email truckers for your shipment logistics**\n\nAnother customer uses Manaflow to find and email local trucking companies based on the shipment origin and final destination. \n\n[Manaflow Demo: Finding Truckers for Logistics Workflow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GsBHG3zm_I)\n\nThis has allowed them to gather rate quotations faster for their clients and has **reduced their manual operations by over 50%.**\n\n### **🙌 One more thing: Collaborate with all stakeholders, including us, to build automations**\n\nThere are countless workflow automations that you can build on Manaflow. We understand that people have many different ideas and love working in teams. So, we made **real-time collaboration** so all of you can build and automate workflows together on Manaflow.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82289\u0026key=user_uploads/760906/1e1b585b-aa0e-4fa6-abf9-c3774e9bdfba)\n\nPartnering with us, you will also have **24/7 access to Manaflow’s engineering support staff.**\n\n### 👥 **OUR TEAM**\n\n[**Austin Wang**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/austinwang115/): Yale Physics, CS \u0026 Econ; Prev. SWE @ Google, NASA JPL, Chess.com, ML @ Datacy\\\n[**Lawrence Chen**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawrencecchen/): Berkeley CS; Prev. Founding Eng @ Minion AI, Berkeley RISE Lab\\\n[**Wesley Tjangnaka**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesleytjangnaka/): Stanford Math \u0026 CS; Prev. Stanford AI Research, ML @ Juniper Networks\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82289\u0026key=user_uploads/89898/2d6a0806-b347-4d6d-ac7f-cc69dae86325)\n\n**🙏 Our Ask**\n\n**If you are or know any** **operation managers or businesses** **that run on spreadsheets**, **please let us know or schedule a time with us** [**here**](https://cal.com/team/manaflow/meeting). Any intros or shoutouts would be super awesome and greatly appreciated.\n\nWe’d really appreciate a like and subscribe on our [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAa89_j-TWkrXfk9A3CbASw), a follow on our [Twitter](https://x.com/manaflowai) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/manaflow-ai/), and some feedback on our [product](https://manaflow.ai/). \\\n\\\nThank you!","slug":"LPF-manaflow-build-and-manage-your-dream-ai-operations-team","created_at":"2024-07-19T22:13:47.678Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T06:33:11.312Z","total_vote_count":915,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LPF-manaflow-build-and-manage-your-dream-ai-operations-team","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=82289\u0026key=user_uploads/89898/2d6a0806-b347-4d6d-ac7f-cc69dae86325","company":{"id":29719,"name":"Manaflow","slug":"manaflow","url":"https://www.cmux.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f240894ee1866a817f8d66f9ed82314520294cbf.png","batch":"Summer 2024","industry":"B2B","tags":["Developer Tools","Open Source","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29719"}}