Lindy AI tips: building no-code agents that actually hold up
Lindy wires AI agents across email, calendar and your other apps without code. The gap between a demo that works once and an automation you can trust daily is mostly about how you build it.
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1. Start with one integration, not five
Get a single trigger-to-action flow reliable first — new email in, draft reply out — before chaining it into a bigger automation. Debugging one link is far easier than debugging a five-step chain failing somewhere in the middle.
2. Give it example outputs, not just instructions
An agent follows a shown format more reliably than a described one. Paste a sample "good" email, reply or summary into the setup instead of only describing what good looks like.
3. Put a human-approval step on anything that sends externally
Until you trust a flow, gate emails, messages and calendar invites behind a review step — an agent that's right 95% of the time on autopilot still sends the 5% that's wrong.
4. Use the trial deliberately, since there's no ongoing free tier
Build and test the exact workflow you intend to keep during the trial window, rather than exploring broadly — that's what actually tells you whether it's worth paying for.
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