Introducing Automations, the new home for everything Bigmind does in the background
The recurring jobs Bigmind runs for you (post-meeting summaries, daily digests, signal-driven follow-ups, pipeline alerts, account updates, and everything else that fires without you opening a chat) used to live under a concept called Background modes.
Background modes are now Automations
The recurring jobs Bigmind runs for you (post-meeting summaries, daily digests, signal-driven follow-ups, pipeline alerts, account updates, and everything else that fires without you opening a chat) used to live under a concept called Background modes. They were tucked inside individual agents, hard to find, and harder to reason about as a whole.
Today we're pulling all of that into a first-class concept: Automations. Same jobs, same triggers, same outputs, but with a clear home, clear inputs, and clear results.
What you get with Automations
One place to see everything that runs for you – A single Automations page lists every automation in your workspace: what it's triggered by (a meeting ending, a signal firing, a schedule, a deal updating), what it produces (a todo, a document, a CRM update, a message), and whether it's active.
Customize per organization – Every automation has sensible defaults out of the box. Override any of them at the organization level (system prompt, tools, schedule, scope) and your version takes over for everyone in the workspace.
Run any automation on demand – Pair this with the Run now dialog we shipped last week and you can simulate any automation against a real scenario before it ever fires for real, so building sophisticated flows no longer means deploying and waiting.
What's next
This release is the start of a much bigger push to make automations easier to build, both personally (your own automations for your own workflows, like "ping me when this account hasn't had a meeting in 30 days") and organization-wide (shared automations that everyone in the workspace benefits from). The infrastructure is in place. The next few releases will focus on making authoring an automation feel as fast as writing a Slack message.
Find your Automations under Settings, AI, Automations. If you had Background modes configured before, they're already there—nothing to migrate, nothing to re-set-up.