Simulate any automation trigger with Run now

Stop deploying just to see what happens

Building a good automation usually means iterating: tweak the prompt, change which tools the agent has, refine when it should fire. The painful part has always been the loop in between, where you have to wait for a real trigger to come along (a meeting that ends, a signal that fires, a deal that updates) before you can see whether your change actually worked.

Today we're introducing Run now: a built-in dialog on every automation that lets you fire it on demand against a specific scenario. No more deploying-and-waiting.

How it works

From any automation's settings page, hit Run now. You'll be prompted to pick the context the automation should run against (a specific meeting, account, deal, signal, or scheduled tick, depending on the trigger type), tweak any input you want to override, and execute. The automation runs end-to-end against real data, and you see exactly what it produced (todos created, fields updated, documents written, messages sent) before the next real trigger ever fires.

Iterate fast on prompts and tools – Edit the system prompt, hit Run now against the same context, see what changed. Tighten the loop from days to seconds.

Test edge cases on real data – Pick the gnarly account or the deal everyone's worried about and run the automation against it specifically, instead of waiting to see what happens in production.

Validate before rollout – When you're about to enable an automation across the whole org, simulate it against a handful of representative scenarios first. Catch the surprises before your team does.

Run now is available today on every automation, custom or out of the box, under Settings, AI, Automations.