Your First Workflow: Getting Started with Business Automation on businesses.do

Drowning in Manual Tasks? Automate with Business-as-Code

In today's fast-paced business environment, manual processes are bottlenecks. They're slow, prone to errors, and simply don't scale. Imagine streamlining customer onboarding, order fulfillment, or compliance checks with the same efficiency and reliability as software deployment. That's the power of Business-as-Code, and the core principle behind businesses.do.

Businesses.do provides an agentic workflow platform designed to transform your complex business operations into automated, scalable Services-as-Software. Forget cumbersome GUIs and rigid systems – define your processes in code and trigger them via simple API services.

What is businesses.do?

At its heart, businesses.do allows you to Run Your Business Operations as Code. It leverages agentic workflows – intelligent, code-defined processes that can execute complex logic, interact with different systems, and manage tasks automatically. Think of it as codifying your standard operating procedures (SOPs) and putting them on autopilot.

The platform enables you to:

1. Define business logic using code.
2. Manage these processes like software (version control, testing).
3. Execute them reliably and automatically via API calls.

This transforms operations into manageable, efficient Services-as-Software.

Why Automate Business Processes with Code?

Applying software development principles to business operations offers significant advantages:

• Scalability: Handle increasing volumes without proportional increases in manual effort.
• Efficiency: Speed up execution and reduce operational costs.
• Consistency: Eliminate human error and ensure processes run the same way every time.
• Version Control: Track changes, revert to previous versions, and collaborate effectively.
• Integration: Seamlessly connect your business workflows with other internal or external software systems via APIs.
• Agility: Quickly adapt and update processes as business needs evolve.

Your First Workflow: A Practical Example

Let's make this concrete. Imagine you want to automate the onboarding process for new business customers. Using businesses.do, you can define an business-onboarding workflow that might handle tasks like creating user accounts, setting up billing, assigning an account manager, and sending welcome emails.

Getting started is straightforward:

1. Sign Up: Register for a businesses.do account.
2. Get API Key: Obtain your unique API key for secure authentication.
3. Use the SDK: Integrate the businesses.do SDK into your application (we'll use TypeScript here).

Here’s how you might trigger that onboarding workflow using the .do SDK:

import { Do } from '@do/sdk';

// Initialize the Do client with your API key
const doClient = new Do({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' });

// Define an async function to trigger the onboarding workflow
async function onboardBusiness(name: string, email: string) {
  try {
    // Trigger the specific workflow ('business-onboarding') by its identifier
    // Pass necessary data (customer name, email, plan choice, etc.) as input
    const result = await doClient.workflows.trigger('business-onboarding', {
      customerName: name,
      contactEmail: email,
      plan: 'enterprise',
      setupTask: true
    });
    // Log the unique ID of the initiated workflow run for tracking
    console.log('Onboarding initiated:', result.workflowRunId);
    return result;
  } catch (error) {
    // Handle any errors during the API call
    console.error('Failed to onboard business:', error);
  }
}

// Example call to onboard a new customer
onboardBusiness('Acme Corp', 'contact@acme.com');

Breaking Down the Code:

1. import { Do } from '@do/sdk';: Imports the necessary library.
2. const doClient = new Do({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' });: Creates an instance of the .do client, authenticating with your API key.
3. doClient.workflows.trigger(...): This is the core action. You specify the unique name of the workflow ('business-onboarding') and provide the input data it needs as a structured object.
4. result.workflowRunId: Upon successful triggering, the API returns information about the workflow run, including a unique ID for tracking its progress and outcome.
5. try...catch: Standard error handling ensures that failures are caught and logged.

With just a few lines of code, you've initiated a potentially complex series of business actions, transforming a manual process into an automated API service.

Beyond Onboarding: The Scope of Automation

The possibilities extend far beyond customer onboarding. Using businesses.do, you can automate:

• CRM Tasks: Lead nurturing, contact updates.
• Financial Operations: Invoice generation, payment processing reminders.
• HR Processes: Employee onboarding, payroll calculations.
• Supply Chain: Order processing, inventory updates.
• Marketing: Campaign triggers, reporting.
• IT Operations: Provisioning resources, automated checks.
• Compliance: Generating reports, running audits.

Essentially, any repeatable business process is a candidate for workflow automation.

Security You Can Trust

Running core business operations via API requires robust security. Businesses.do is built with security as a top priority. Access is controlled via secure API keys, data is encrypted in transit, and workflows run in isolated, secure environments. We follow industry best practices to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of your operational data.

Get Started with businesses.do Today!

Ready to leave manual processes behind and embrace the efficiency of Business-as-Code?

1. Sign up for your businesses.do account.
2. Explore the documentation for in-depth guides.
3. Start defining and automating your first workflow!

Transform your operations into scalable, reliable Services-as-Software and unlock new levels of operational efficiency with businesses.do.