Thijs van As

Thijs van As

Founding Head of Product

Thijs is the Founding Head of Product at Relay.app. Prior to Relay.app, Thijs was Director of Product at Booking.com, where he led product management & strategy for the most downloaded & used travel (OTA) app in the world. Before Booking.com, Thijs was at Google for almost 9 years where he lead the Product teams for Google Flights and worked on Gmail and Google Maps before that.Follow Thijs van As on LinkedIn

September 2024 update: Free AI credits, new models, DALL-E, and more updates

Unlock the full potential of AI in your workflows with Relay.app’s latest features. From free AI credits for all plans to new model options like OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude, Relay.app makes automation easier and more flexible than ever. Learn how you can use AI for data extraction, image generation with DALL-E, and more—all included with your plan. Explore the future of automation today!

3 Quick Tips to supercharge your automations

Three quick tips to get the most out of your automations by (1) accessing linked data, (2) automating SOPs via batch triggers, and (3) merging paths and path data

August 2024 updates: Run custom code, transform data & more new utilities

In August 2024 we launched a new utility that lets you run custom JavaScript code in Relay.app, a new 'Transform data' step and a number of other utilities

July 2024 updates: AI audio actions & integrations across 20 apps

In July 2024 we new AI steps to transcribe audio files and synthesize text-to-speech, plus we launched 67 new integrations across 20 apps including AssemblyAI, Brevo, Fireflies.ai, DocuSign, GitHub, Lemon Squeezy, MailerSend, Notion, Outlook Calendar, Outlook Contacts, Slack, Smartlead.ai, TidyCal, Harvest, and others.

How to add a mini AI Agent to your workflow

This tutorial explains what AI Agents are and how to create mini AI Agents embedded in repeated workflows in Relay.app

June 2024 updates: AI Agents, DALL·E, data formatting & 124 new integrations

In June 2024 we launched AI Agent steps, a DALL·E integration, data formatting steps, plus 124 new integrations across 27 apps including Airtable, Asana, AssemblyAI, Dropbox, GitHub, Loops, Notion, Retable, SmartSuite, Square, Stripe and Zoom.

Attio automations too limiting? Try these 10 powerful alternatives

Need to automate both Attio CRM and other business apps? This article covers the best alternatives for automation.

10 best Bardeen alternatives for seamless workflow automation

In this article, we break down Bardeen’s limitations and offer you alternative software to consider for your business, such as Relay.app, Qntrl, Workato, Cheat Layer, Make, and more.

How to make HTTP requests to an external API

This tutorial explains how to make custom HTTP requests to external APIs via ‘Custom HTTP Request’ steps in Relay.app, and use fields from the server response in future steps.

How to use AI to extract data from emails

AI steps in Relay.app let you harness the power of LLMs like GPT, Gemini, Claude, or LLaMA within your workflows. This tutorial explains how to extract structured information from invoice emails and add that to a spreadsheet.

May 2024 updates: Monday.com, AI Steps, & more

In May 2024 we launched new integrations across 10 apps, including Monday.com, Fillout, HubSpot, Intercom, Notion, Paddle, ScrapingBee, SmartSuite, Syften and Zendesk. We also launched many new AI features like AI Actions to search the web and additional steps like AI Extract and AI Summarize.

How to set up a Webhook trigger

This tutorial explains how to set up a Webhook Trigger in Relay.app.