what triggers it?

Something happens in an app, and it starts: an email arrives, a row is added, a payment comes in, a form is sent.

Your automation is a building block: another automation calls it and waits for its answer.

Every Monday at 2 pm, every day at 7 am: the time you choose.

Nobody tells you, so you go and look yourself, at regular intervals, to see if something has changed.

Someone starts the automation when they need it: a button in Notion, a button on a page.

You write to an AI in a chat, and that message starts the automation.