Visual workflow automation, built for developers | Retool

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Build automations. Deploy to production. Governed by default.

Connect to any database, API, or service. Write logic in code, queries, or AI, and deploy production-ready automations from one governed platform.

Visual workflow automation built for real production workflows

Choose your trigger: cron schedule, API call, or webhook. Every execution is logged and auditable.

Query data using dozens of built-in connectors: databases, third-party services, and anything with a REST, GraphQL, or gRPC API. Need to tunnel into your VPC or tackle custom authentication methods? Workflows can handle it.

Define your process directly in code, with support for any library you'd reach for in an IDE. Or, use built-in filtering, branching, and looping patterns.

Ship in seconds. Durable execution ensures your alerts, notifications, escalations, updates, and processes run to completion every time.

Screenshot of a trigger starting a workflow

One production-ready platform for every automation your team needs.

AI-powered assistance

Generate a production-ready automation from a prompt. Or use AI to write, edit, and debug code directly on the canvas.

Screenshot of Retool UI showing how to generate a new workflow with AI

Generative AI blocks

Summarize text, describe images, or generate chat responses. Connect natively to OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, and Amazon Bedrock–no configuration, no separate governance setup required.

Screenshot of Retool generative AI blocks

Where rewriting a script for sending customer-facing coupons would have taken 3+ months, we were able to create an entirely custom process in Workflows in just one day.

John Hughes

Chief Strategy Officer, Modern Milkman

Workflows allows me to keep our internal data systems clean and up-to-date…by allowing me to write Javascript to easily tailor the data we need from clunky JSON objects.

Kyle Crowder

Data Engineer, East Fork

We needed an efficient way to translate product data in our warehouse into timely, insightful reporting in Slack. With Retool Workflows, my team can easily configure our resources in one place and focus only on writing the logic unique to our business.

Joel McLean

Director of Product Growth, RE/MAX

Enterprise-grade tools for production workflow development

Granular debugging

Inspect logs at the block level and step through historical run data to pinpoint failures quickly.

Secure by default

Audit logs, RBAC, secrets management, Git-based source control, and multiple environments–secure from day one.

Advanced permissions

Enforce RBAC at the user and workflow level and define who can build, trigger, or modify automations.

Custom error handling

Get notified for any pause, failure, or exception. Define contingency paths at each step, and set custom retry policies.

Deployment flexibility

Self-host within your own VPC, keep data in your network, and meet your compliance requirements. Durable execution and long-running job support included.

Self-documenting

Annotate steps with Markdown comments so workflows stay understandable across teams and stakeholders.