Nuno Vilaça
I teach, build and manage digital products | AI Agents & No-code | Speaker | Community Builder
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AI workflow automation case study exercise
This exercise hands you a support ticket automation that has misclassified real tickets for two weeks, including a...
Andre Albuquerque & Nuno VilaçaMake vs n8n vs Zapier
Zapier has the largest app catalog and the simplest setup, Make trades some of that simplicity for a more flexible...
Andre Albuquerque & Nuno VilaçaWhat Is AI Workflow Automation?
AI workflow automation is the use of AI, usually a language model step, inside an otherwise automated sequence to...
Andre Albuquerque & Nuno VilaçaWhat Is Structured Output from an LLM?
Structured output is a language model response that conforms to a predefined, machine-readable format, such as JSON...
Andre Albuquerque & Nuno VilaçaWhat are triggers and actions in automation?
A trigger is the event that starts an automation, and actions are the steps it runs afterwards: 'new form submission'...
Andre Albuquerque & Nuno VilaçaHow to use AI for product ops work that repeats every week
Product ops work splits cleanly into two piles, and only one is automatable: recurring artefacts with a right answer...
Andre Albuquerque +2How to automate a weekly product status report with AI
Automating a weekly product status report takes five steps in Zapier: a weekly schedule trigger, a search step that...
Nuno VilaçaBest automation tools for non-technical founders
Zapier is the best automation tool for most non-technical founders: its free plan runs two-step Zaps on 100 tasks a...
Andre Albuquerque & Nuno VilaçaMake.com for product managers
A Make.com scenario starts with one trigger, chains together one or more action modules through field mapping, and...
Andre Albuquerque & Nuno Vilaçan8n workflows for product managers
An n8n workflow starts with a trigger node, adds one or more action nodes that map data between steps, and ends with a...
Andre Albuquerque & Nuno VilaçaNo code for product managers: what to build and which tools to use
No code for product managers means building a working product or process from five parts: a database (Airtable), a...
Andre Albuquerque & Nuno VilaçaHow to decide which tasks to automate
Automate a task only when it repeats on a schedule, follows rules you can write down, and costs more time over a year...
Andre Albuquerque & Nuno VilaçaSix workflow automation best practices for non-engineers
Treat every automation like a small product: ship a one-trigger version first, keep it inside the fewest tools...
Andre Albuquerque & Nuno VilaçaZapier automation ideas for product managers
The Zapier automations worth building as a PM fall into three kinds: product on autopilot (Zaps that run part of the...
Andre Albuquerque & Nuno VilaçaZapier vs Make for product managers
Zapier wins on the largest app catalog and the fastest path to a first linear automation; Make wins on a lower entry...
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