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Naden's AI workflow builder. This is a feature in Naden that allows you to turn your ideas into workflows using AI. So, in today's video, I'm going to talk about how it works, but way more importantly, how do you actually use it to get results? I'm going to be going over some common issues you may see when you're using it, and we're going to go through some live examples together. So, if that sounds good to you, let's get into the video. All right. So, here I am
in a blank workflow and you can see you can either add a first step or we have the option now to build with AI which lets us put a prompt in here and then the Niten AI builder will turn that into a workflow. So, right here I'm going to throw in this prompt and we're going to shoot it off. And I said that I need a workflow that will run every morning. It will do research on trends in the food industry using Tablety. It will find me a new recipe to try using Perplexity and
it will send me a motivational quote and all of this will go to my email. So what it's doing is it's reading this and it's looking through its nodes in the database. It's going to gather those details and then it's going to go ahead and add them to the workflow as you can see right here. And this is great and it's very cool because obviously an has all of this knowledge of how these nodes work. But I will say you have to be careful about the configuration. So you
can see that just finished up and what it's prompting us to do now is to execute and refine. So I'm just going to go ahead and execute and we'll see if we get any errors anywhere and what to do next. So it just hit Tavly. That worked. All right. It's hitting perplexity now to find a new recipe. And then it's going to hit perplexity again to get a motivational quote. So, we didn't get any errors. Let's go ahead and head over to email to see what that output looks
like. All right. So, here's what we got. Your daily food trends, recipe, and motivation. What you notice right away is that we don't actually see our food industry trends. So, we'll have to go investigate why. As far as the recipe, we got a unique and delicious recipe, which is the marry me shrimp pasta. Sounds great. And then for the motivational quote, we got when you arrive in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, and to
love. But we have to go understand why we didn't get our food industry trends. So, I'm going to close out of this tab so we can just dive a little deeper into the actual workflow. And the food industry trends would have been coming from Tavi. So, if I click into this real quick, we can see that it's searching for latest trends in the food industry. So, that's great. It's already connected with my Tavly credentials, so that's good. And it chose to do a search depth
of advanced. So that's super cool. It understood how to use this node to configure our search. And so we got these results back which look good. It looks like we actually did get, you know, a deep search on food trends and we're getting all that here. So I think the issue is somewhere over here where it's actually preparing that email content. So if I click into this set node, what we can see is that for the email body, if I open this up, the food industry trends is coming through as
null. And so what happens here is it's trying to pull this variable. And this variable from Tavali actually only exists if you come into here and you include an answer and then you turn that on. And so now if I saved this and we ran it again, I think that everything would come through correctly. But the reason why I wanted to show you guys an example like this is because you can see this is really nice. It understood our query and it laid out a really good skeleton and a really good template for
us. But NAND primarily has knowledge on the NADN core nodes. And what I mean by that is every single node has you know an input a configuration and an output. But when you start to play with different APIs like Tavly Plexity or any random HTTP requests that Nen might not know super well it might not have the right variables from the output of the node in order to actually keep them passing down the rest of the chain. But after we added that option to include an
answer, we do actually get um a food trend. Now, obviously, this isn't optimized and we'd want to change that, but I just wanted to show you guys how you have to still understand the variables and what's moving through in order to fully take advantage of this AI builder cuz once again, this set node right here, it's trying to predict what the output of this Tavly node looks like. And sometimes you just don't know. Even you and I as humans, we don't know. What I would do if I was building this
manually is I'd build this, run it, and then I'd pin that data, and then I'd add the next step, and I'd run it, and I'd pin the data, and I would just take it step by step, and continuously add on more blocks to the right after I know that everything that I currently have works. And so, when a workflow builder or even a human tries to build anything in one fell swoop, not all the variables are going to be mapped correctly. And that's just the truth. But still, I'm
not trying to take away the value from something like this because if you are a complete beginner and you know the type of flow that you want, you know, like the prompt that we saw me put in earlier and then you're able to at least get here in a matter of 5 minutes and then try to troubleshoot what comes next. You certainly can. And the cool thing is, and another cool thing is when you do actually run into errors, the AI builder will help you troubleshoot those. So,
let's hop into a new workflow and do another example and we'll take a look and see if we get some errors and we'll see how the AI builder can help us out. All right. So, now we're in a fresh workflow. I'm going to click build with AI. Paste in this prompt. And this one says, "Build me a workflow that creates a sales brief when a lead submits a form with a form trigger. They fill out information about their business and what they're looking for help with. The workflow should research them with
perplexity, analyze their pain points, and then generate me a one-page brief to use on a sales call." So, that just finished up. We're going to go ahead and execute and refine, which is going to pull up this form trigger that it built for us. And this has company name, name, email, website, industry, what you're looking for help with, and what your biggest challenges are right now. So, let me just fill this out real quick. So, I just filled this out for Chipotle.
I threw in some information here. We're going to submit that and see what happens with the workflow. So, you can see that finished up, but it didn't actually use the perplexity tool. And if we click into the agent real quick to see what the output looks like, we also notice that all of these aren't mapped correctly cuz all of those are red. And so the output of the agent says to assist you effectively, could you please provide some additional details about
the company or the industry. So it's not actually looking at the form submission. So what I'm actually going to do is copy this and I'm going to go into the agent builder down here and say this is what the sales brief generator agent output. And then I paste it in its output. And then I said, help me fix this. So now you can see the agent builder is thinking. You can see it said I see the issue. The form field names have spaces and special characters, but the
expression is trying to access them with underscores. So the AI isn't actually receiving those values. So now we're going to go ahead and try again. I'll hit execute and refine. And let me just fill out this information one more time. All right, I'm going to shoot this off and we should see hopefully that it's able to use Plexity. There we go. And then we should actually get a better output this time from this sales brief generator agent. Awesome. So it finished
up. It actually used the Plexity tool three times. So I'm going to close out of this tab real quick and we're going to investigate what's going on in this flow. So the first thing I'm going to do is click into the agent. And we actually now see that it is receiving all this information. So, this is honestly a bug. These should be showing up as green because they're all variables. But regardless, it's getting our company. It's getting our contact information. We didn't put a website, so there's
nothing. It's getting the industry. It's getting what we're looking for help with, which I said we're looking for help creating more seasonal promotional opportunities, maybe introducing some limited time menu items, and just driving more traffic and awareness to the brand. Then for biggest challenges, I said we want to be able to scale our revenue without just adding more locations and more staff. So, if anyone is watching this and they work for Chipotle, I just made this up. I really
love Chipotle. Anyways, so that's what the user message is. That's what the agent is looking at. And then we also can see that it gave us a system message. So, if I open this up, it said that you are a sales research assistant that creates comprehensive onepage sales brief. Your task is to use the Plexity research tool to research the company, analyze the lead's stated needs and pain points, research their industry and common challenges, generate a concise one-page sales brief, and that brief
should include a company overview, pain points, industry context, recommended approach, and then some questions to ask. And honestly, this system prompt is pretty solid considering the limited amount of information that I actually gave the workflow builder. And actually, real quick, I'm just going to go ahead and pin all this data and I'm going to shoot that response to myself in an email just to make it way easier to look at. And just to show you guys how this
could work, I added this Gmail node myself. And you can see that there's an error. And if I go to the edit an AI, it says that I need to complete these steps before executing your workflow. So, I need to fill in these parameters. And if I click on this button, it'll pull that up right there and show me exactly what I need to do. So being able to utilize your knowledge of NDN and what you want to build and then using this AI assistant as well to help you kind of
build step by step. That's definitely going to be the best approach and that's how you're really going to learn what you're building. Anyways, I just sent this off so we can take a look at it. We've got our sales brief. Chipotle Chipotle Mexican Grill is a leading fast casual restaurant chain known for its customizable Mexicaninspired dishes. So key pain point one, seasonal promotional opportunities. Number two is revenue scaling. And then it gives us some industry context. But here's what I
wanted to look at which was the recommended approaches. The first one is to highlight innovation. So emphasize Chipotle's potential to leverage it existing technology infrastructure to offer exclusive seasonal items through digital channels potentially targeting Gen Z and millennials who drive trends like sustainability and healthconscious eating. I didn't want to read this whole thing cuz I thought that would be boring, but just to validate that it was working and it was kind of following its
system prompt. So, it's not perfect as you guys can tell, but the majority of issues that I'm seeing right now have to do with moving variables to the right spot. And once again, it's just because it would be very hard to predict what the variables are always going to look like. Although, in this case, I really think it should have gotten it right because these are native nodes and it should know exactly, you know, if I'm making a field in the form called company name, I should know exactly how
to reference that later. But keep in mind, you can also use it right over here as a thought partner and you can show it what you're getting. you can show it how it's not exactly what you want and just be able to sort of go back and forth a little bit. But the one thing I would be careful about is based on your edit and cloud plan, which right now as of November 2025, this is only available on ending cloud. You do have a limit on your monthly credits and this
is based on what plan you're on whether you're on starter pro or something higher than that. Anyways, we're going to do another example and I wanted to show you guys how important it actually is to know the process so well before you want to automate it. This is something that I talk about a lot in my community. In fact, the full course on Nitn actually starts off by understanding how to pick the process and how to map out all the steps before you get into Nitn and start building it.
So, if you're interested in learning more about that, then definitely check out the community because if you can't communicate the process very well, how would you expect AI to build that for you? So, what we're going to do here is we're going to use one of the preset examples from Nadens's agent builder, which is a multi- aent research workflow. Now, you can see when I clicked on that, it gives us a one-s sentence prompt, which I'm not feeling super bullish about how this is going to
turn out because all it says is, "Create me a multi-agent AI workflow where different AI agents collaborate to research a topic, fact check information, and compile comprehensive reports." That's pretty ambiguous and that could be interpreted 100 different ways as far as what type of agents, what chat models, what is the sources for the research? What is the trigger? What do we do with that data? What type of report? Who is it optimized for? Is it going to be a PDF? Is it going to be an
email? There's just so many things that if you told it more information about, it would make it a lot better. Okay, so we have this interesting looking orchestrator agent and we have a manual trigger, which is interesting, too. So, I'm just going to real quick just hit execute and see what happens. So, we got an error pretty much right away. And you can see it's telling us down here that we need to update the research topic to investigate parameter, which is in the
actual workflow configuration. So, this is where we would put in a research topic, which actually, if I look back, it did tell me that I needed to configure that. So, I went ahead and put in artificial intelligence in healthcare, and we're going to go ahead and execute and refine once again to see what happens this time. All right, so we ran that again. We hit an error, and then the AI agent builder basically said, okay, so this is an issue in the system message. They're trying to
reference JSON.mmax sources blah blah blah. And so it says that it's changed it and fixed it. I'm going to go ahead and hit execute workflow once again, but I'm not feeling super positive that it's going to work. All right, so error it again. We're going to go ahead and stop this and I'm going to just explain real quick why I wasn't super positive about this. So we asked for a multi- aent workflow where different agents research, fact check, and then create a
report. And this in my mind sounds like something that could be way more linear and doesn't have to be this orchestrator agent setup with all of these different sub aents. It also doesn't even have this HTTP request really going anywhere. I guess it's going to duck.go and it's trying to fill out this little query parameter and then it's also using Wikipedia. But if we would have been more specific on we only want to use perplexity and we only want to use claude sonnet and we only want you know
this research topic and we only want to use this type of HTML. It just would have been a lot better. Okay, so let's try that again. We're going to go for a similar type of system, but we're going to give it a much more detailed prompt. So, let me just drop something in real quick. Okay, so I just dropped in this prompt and I was keeping in mind trigger, data sources, data destination, or sorry, data transformation, and then data destination. And I tried to give it
more detail. So, I said I want to create a personal daily newsletter that will go off every morning at 6 a.m. I want this system to research AI trends, voice AI trends, workflow building trends, and also what's going on in the AI content creator space. I only want it to use Tavly for its research. I want it to do advanced search depth and I need it to include an answer in the Tavi results. All of those results need to get fed into an AI agent in order to create an
HTML styled newsletter based on all the content that we get back from Tavi. And I want that AI agent to use enthropic claude sonnet 4.5. So the idea is that I was telling it exactly where to go. I was telling it how the data passes between each other. And we should be able to see that this looks a lot better. It looks a lot more linear. We may have some issues here with the merging of all three of these searches, but I think this is going to give us a much better start than what we saw
earlier with that multi- aent system. But now let's go ahead and execute and refine to see how it does here with this one. Okay, so we hit an error with the set node that's trying to combine the research results. And automatically the workflow builder understood there's an error and now it's trying to debug that right here. You can see it actually said I need to add a merge node to properly wait for all three parallel research branches to combine. So that's kind of
what I expected to happen because I I kind of saw that right away. But the good news is it's able to at least understand that. And now hopefully it's going to update this with a merge node that works. Okay, so it threw in that merge node. Let's just go ahead and run it again now. Okay, perfect. The merge node actually worked and it passed over those items. However, I am noticing something else now. It sent through all three. But really what we want to do is
have all of these combined into one item because now this is going to create three separate emails which is not what we were looking for. So we're taking a different approach. I said instead of having them branch off into three different paths, what if we just have it go one 2 three right after the other. We keep everything as one item and then we have the agent be able to look at all of those when it's making its newsletter. So maybe that is a better approach.
We'll see what the workflow builder does here. So honestly, that looks a lot better. We're going to go ahead and execute this and see if it works this time. Fingers crossed here. Okay, that run finished up. Let's go see what the output looks like. All right, so here it is. We have our AI trends newsletter, your monthly digest of AI innovations. We've got our voice AI section with some market growth and some insights here. We've got workflow building AI section
with some insights here as well. And then the content creator space with some insights and some key trends to look out for, as well as a nice little wrap-up down here. So, just to close off here, I wanted to wrap up the reason why I made this video. It wasn't for me to completely hype up the feature, but it wasn't for me to just bash on it either. I wanted to honestly just be really realistic about where it is right now and where this is heading because I hear
a lot of people asking me, is it even worth learning nit right now? And after seeing what I had to do today, I hope that in your mind the answer is absolutely yes. Because learning how to build with NN helps you understand the foundational elements of how processes actually work and how data transforms and how variables move from left to right across a workflow and when AI is needed and when AI is not. Because if I could boil it down to three main tips of how to use the AI workflow builder. One,
be as detailed as you can when you're actually prompting the AI builder in this little panel right here. Two, don't expect the first iteration to work the same way as if a human was building an entire workflow out without testing at once. It wouldn't work. But you can use this AI as a thought partner and as a troubleshoot helper when you run into issues there. And then three would be workflows, workflows, workflows. AI workflows are so much easier to build.
They're more predictable. They're easier to troubleshoot and they're going to lead to higher quality results. And to even drill down further, when you can keep everything on one path where it literally can only go in one direction and you're able to place those guardrails on it, it's just going to be better. As we just saw with the most recent example, if I would have prompted this thing from the beginning to keep everything in one line, we probably could have gotten a perfect or much
closer to perfect result after that first prompt. But because it decided to try to do this thing where it had three different paths and tried to merge the data back together. We had issues here. We had issues here. And it was just much more of a headache than if we just would have said, "Hey, keep it all in one line." And so as a beginner right now, I would definitely utilize this feature to, you know, understand how these nodes work and how they come together. But the
most important thing is once you run it, look through every single node, understand the input, understand the configuration and the output, and just see how the data moves across the entire thing. So anyways, don't want this video to go too long, but I just thought it would be helpful to at least give you guys sort of my raw thoughts on how to actually use this feature and validate to you all that I think learning n right now is still an insanely good investment
of your time. And so if you want to take those learnings deeper and you want to connect with over 200 members who are doing this every day and building businesses with Naden every day, then definitely check out my plus community. The link for that is down in the description. Got a great community of over 200 members ranging from beginners all the way to people building businesses with NAND. One of our members just closed a $36,000 project last week and we're always celebrating wins like
this together in the community. We've got three full courses. Agent Zero is the foundations for beginners. 10 hours to 10 seconds is where we learn how to identify, design, and build time-saving automations in NN. And then for our premium members, we have one person AI automation agency where we actually start to talk about laying the foundation to build a scalable AI automation business. We've also got projects in here which is just basically flooded with step-by-step builds where
I'm basically building something live and I just kind of talk through what I'm doing, why I'm doing it, setting up all the credentials, things like that. We also run a live call every week where we just talk about what's going on in the space, answer your guys' questions, things like that. So, I'd love to see you guys on those calls in the community. But that's going to do it for today. If you enjoyed the video or you learned something new, please give it a
like. It definitely helps me out a ton. And as always, I appreciate you guys making it to the end of the video. I'll see you on the next one. Thanks, everyone.
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