Workflows: Orchestrate Your Swarm Visually
A single bot answers a question. A workflow gets work done — on a schedule, across your tools, chaining your bots into a team that hands off to each other. With this release, building one is as easy as describing it.
From a sentence to a running graph
Open HiveMind and describe the automation in plain language:
"Every morning at 9am, have my Research bot find the latest AI news, then my Writer bot turn it into a short summary, then post it to Slack."
HiveMind builds the workflow graph and shows it right in the chat as a workflow card. Click Open in builder and the whole thing drops onto the visual canvas — trigger, bots, and the Slack step, already wired in order. Tweak anything, then save.
The key detail: when you mention your bots, HiveMind wires them in as real Bot nodes — each one runs that bot with its full toolset, memory, and sub-agents. It's not flattening your agents into generic prompts; it's composing them.
The node palette
Every workflow is a graph of nodes you connect on the canvas:
- Triggers — start the run: a webhook, an inbound email, or a schedule (cron).
- Bot — run one of your existing bots as a single step. This is the swarm primitive.
- AI — a raw model call (Fast / Standard / Smart) for classification, summarizing, or transforming.
- Logic — condition, switch, loop, and filter nodes that branch the flow.
- Apps / Data — call Slack, Gmail, Notion, GitHub, a database, or any HTTP endpoint.
It runs on its own
Add a Schedule trigger with a cron expression — 0 9 * * 1-5 for 9am every weekday — and the workflow fires automatically. Every scheduled run is rate-limited against your plan, recorded with per-node output, and billed transparently.
text0 9 * * 1-5 → 9:00am, Monday through Friday */30 * * * * → every 30 minutes 0 0 1 * * → midnight on the 1st of each month
Transparent by the token
AI and Bot steps consume credits (1 credit = 1,000 tokens), drawn from one shared monthly pool across HiveMind, your bots, and your workflows. Complex runs that lean on tools cost more; trivial ones cost almost nothing. You can watch it all on the Usage page — no mystery, no surprise overage.
Start building
The fastest path is to just ask HiveMind. The most control is the visual Orchestrator. Or import a ready-made template and customize it. However you start, your agents stop being islands and start being an operations team.
Workflows are how a collection of bots becomes a business process.