quickstart.mdx

title	Quickstart
description	Create your first workflow in under five minutes

Sign Up and Onboard

Head to [innflow.ai](https://innflow.ai) and sign up. You can use email, Google, or GitHub to create your account. Innflow will ask about your role and what you plan to automate. This helps personalize your experience and surface relevant templates. Choose the plan that fits your needs. The **Free** tier gives you $5 in usage to explore. You can upgrade anytime.

Build Your First Workflow

From the **Workflows** page, click **New Workflow**. This opens the visual editor where you build automations by connecting nodes on a canvas. Every workflow starts with a trigger. Click the starting node and choose one:

- **Manual Trigger** — Run the workflow on demand with the **Run** button
- **Input Trigger** — Define a form with custom fields that users fill out before each run
- **Webhook Trigger** — Start the workflow when an external system sends an HTTP request
- **Chat Trigger** — Start the workflow from a conversational chat interface
- **Schedule Trigger** — Run automatically on a recurring schedule (daily, weekly, monthly, hourly)
- **Stripe, Typeform, Notion, Google Forms** — Start when events happen in those services

For your first workflow, **Manual Trigger** is the simplest choice.

Click the **+** button below your trigger to add nodes. Browse by category or search for what you need:

- **AI** — Generate text with Gemini models
- **Communication** — Send messages via Slack, Discord, Gmail, Teams, Telegram, or Resend
- **Google Suite** — Work with Docs, Sheets, Calendar, Drive, Slides, Forms, and Groups
- **Microsoft** — Excel, Word, OneDrive, Outlook, Planner, SharePoint, and Teams
- **Data** — Airtable, HubSpot, Apollo, Notion, Trello, GitHub
- **Search** — Tavily, Exa, Firecrawl, Ahrefs, Polymarket
- **Logic** — Conditions, routers, code execution, array transforms, sleep, CSV export

Drag from one node's output handle to another node's input handle to create connections. Click any node to open its configuration panel on the right side.

Use `{{variableName.output.field}}` syntax to reference data from previous nodes. The variable picker (click the `{ }` icon in any text field) shows all available variables.

Click the **Run** button in the editor toolbar. You will see each node execute in sequence, with status indicators showing progress. Click any completed node to inspect its output.

What to Try Next

Describe what you want in plain English and let AI build or modify your workflow. Start from a curated template instead of building from scratch. Learn about all nine trigger types and when to use each one. Pass data dynamically between nodes using template variables.