Thijs van As

Thijs van As

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
Start multiple Playbook runs at once with batch Triggers
Batch triggers in Relay.app let you start multiple runs at once for the same Playbook. For example, you may use batch triggers to set off mail merge campaigns, or kick off a playbook on a weekly periodic schedule that checks in with the Account Executives for all stale Deals in sales pipeline in HubSpot.
Unlock new automation use cases with Iterators
Iterators in Relay.app let you automate actions for individual items inside a list. For example, to automatically add individual meeting invitees that attended to a CRM after an event ended
Product Updates (March 2024)
In March 2024 we launched new integrations across 9 apps, including Affinity, Airtable, Asana, Bitly, ConvertKit, Google Sheets, Linear, Pipedrive and Todoist. We also launched many new features like the ability to use server responses from Webhook automations and many usability improvements.
Top 10 Bardeen Alternatives for Workflow Task Automation in 2024
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 Merge Paths in Automations (3-Step Guide)
Frustrated by Zapier's inability to merge paths across automation? You'll love how easy it is in Relay.app.
How to Replace Images Within a Google Docs Template
Frustrated by Zapier's inability to insert images in a document template? We feel your pain, which is why we added the ability to do this in Relay. Check out our tutorial to learn how.
Changelog (February 2024)
In February 2024 we launched 71 new integrations across 10 apps, including Microsoft Teams, Paddle, Attio, ConvertKit, Google Contacts, Google Drive, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Quickbooks Online, Webflow and Zoom. We also shipped many core product improvements like the ability to merge Paths and enhanced file upload/download capabilities.
Changelog (January 2024)
In January 2024 we launched 90 new integrations across 21 apps, including Calendly, ClickSend, ClickUp, Fillout, Harvest, Mailchimp, Smartlead.ai, Todoist, Webflow and Pipedrive.
Changelog (December 2023)
In December 2023 we launched 88 new integrations across 11 apps, including SmartSuite, Front, Quickbooks Online, MailerLite, Jotform and Posthog.
Changelog (November 2023)
In November 2023 we launched 64 new integrations across 19 apps, including Coda, Facebook Lead Ads, Outlook, SmartSuite, Stripe and many more.
Changelog (October 2023)
In October 2023 we launched 62 new integrations across 24 SaaS apps, including Affinity Attio, lemlist, DocuSign, Pipedrive, Harvest and many many more.
Changelog (September 2023)
In September 2023 we enhanced our AI Autofill capabilities. Use AI Autofill to Generate messages, Extract information, Summarize content or Classify content to conditional decisions. Furthermore, we shipped new integrations with GitHub, Google Tasks, Apollo and Notion among others.
Changelog (August 2023)
In August 2023 we completely redesigned the playbook creation experience to make it even simpler to build automated workflows that are supercharged with one-click AI assistance and human oversight. Plus we shipped 45 new integrations with SaaS apps like Affinity, Intercom, Typeform, Notion and Pipedrive.
Responding to App Store Reviews
Responding to app store reviews can help boost your app's rating. Here are tips for managing responses!
Changelog (July 2023)
In July 2023 we focused on usability and product robustness. Plus, we shipped new integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Google Docs, Google Forms and Google Calendar.
Changelog (June 2023)
In June 2023 we shipped a brand new Template Gallery to Relay and new integrations with the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, Lever, Confluence and HelpScout.
Changelog (May 2023)
In May 2023 we shipped many product updates to Relay, including usability improvements and new integrations with Greenhouse, Intercom, Gmail and Asana.
Supercharging Customer Success playbooks with external Data Sources
Data Sources in Relay let you connect multiple external data sources to your playbook, like a CRMs, spreadsheets, tables and project management apps. Data sources are very helpful for essential Customer Success playbooks like customer onboarding and QBR planning
Making Relay great for Product Ops through new integrations
March flew by! Over the past weeks we've been focused on making Relay great for various Product Ops use cases like managing feature launches, user research, project planning, and more. We also shipped a whole bunch of new features and customer requests including many new integrations with tools like Linear, Jira, Salesforce, Notion, Google Workspace and Slack.
New in Relay: Data tab, more integrations & webhooks
We've made a ton of improvements to Relay this month, including new ways to pull in data from external sources, flexible webhooks to interact with other tools, and lots of new integrations (Asana, JIRA, Salesforce, Reply.io). Here's a brief update.
January 2023 update from Relay
It’s been a busy month at Relay, shipping lots of new functionality and content! Here’s a quick update with lots of content and feature updates that will help you get the most out of Relay.