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

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.

Pipedrive pricing guide for 2024: Is it worth it?

Need to scale your sales workflows? This article covers Pipedrive's pricing and ways to automate your CRM.

Workato pricing guide for 2024: Is it worth it?

Workato's pricing is blurry, to say the least. This article breaks down the platform's true cost.

10 best Airtable automation alternatives in 2024

Need to automate in and outside or Airtable? Try one of these 10 best Airtable Automation Alternatives.

April 2024 updates: Custom AI prompts, iterators, batch triggers and more

In April 2024 we launched new integrations across 9 apps, including Salesforce, Signeasy, Google Drive and Asana. Plus, we launched a number of major new features: Iterators, Batch triggers, new Human-in-the-Loop steps as well as a very flexible new AI Step