Learning Path

Learn to build, route, test, and run Glow automations through this guided five-step curriculum. Start with a task card below, or work through each tutorial in order.

At a glanceVerified in app · Oct 30, 2026

Use it to: Follow the five-step curriculum from your first Draft automation to data mapping, conditional routing, AI agents, and going Live
Find it: Automations → Create new → Workflow
Cost: Tutorials 1, 2 (AI path), and 4 need 0 connected app accounts and use Glow AI tokens
Instead: Use Cases & Examples (to adapt a complete blueprint right away) or Migrating to Glow (when moving from n8n, Make, or Zapier)

Follow the Quickstart from setup to reading your first result.

Build my first automation

Choose an automation example for the process you want to build.

Adapt an example to my work

Describe your process, review the generated Steps, and test the draft.

Build with Workflow Assistant

Follow the learning path

The first two tutorials need no connected external account if you choose AI Prompt in Tutorial 2. Have a Glow account and workspace ready and check your Step credits and Glow AI tokens.

Build and run your first automation

Follow Quickstart: Your First Automation. In about five minutes, you will place a trigger and an AI Step, run the automation manually and read the generated note in result. Leave the automation in Draft.

After this you can build a short automation and read what a Step returned.

Map data, with or without a connected app

Follow Build It Yourself, then use Mapping or Transforming Data when the destination needs a different value or shape.

After this you can inspect test data and pass earlier output into a later Step. The Slack path also teaches account connection; the AI Prompt path needs no external account.

Add routing

When you have Slack and Google Sheets available, follow Branching. You will create alternative paths, configure exact rules and test messages and rows in test destinations. You can finish in Draft without enabling automatic intake.

After this you can choose a route and bring alternative branches back into the automation.

Build an automation for your own outcome

Choose the automation example closest to your work, or start with a Workflow Assistant prompt. Use Choose the Right Step to refine the graph yourself.

After this you can adapt a complete automation shape to a process in your organization.

Prepare for automatic runs when ready

Read Operating Automations before relying on the result. It covers controlled testing, checking the destination, switching from Draft to Live and monitoring the first automatic runs.

After this you can move from a successful manual run to a Live automation and verify its real behavior.

Optional: build with someone else

Working Together shows how to share an automation and edit the same canvas in real time. Nothing else in the learning path depends on completing it.

Verify it works

Run: Complete Tutorial 1 in Draft, then open Tutorial 2 to map Webhook test data into a downstream Step
You should see: Each tutorial's Executions tab shows the expected output before you move on to branching and live triggers.

What’s Next?

👉 Build Your First Automation →
Building for another company? Start with Working With Clients.
Already know the outcome? Use Choose the Right Step.