Schedules first: every morning, weekdays at 7, the first of the month. Beyond the clock, automations can run when something happens, like an email arriving or a file changing, and you can always fire one on demand by asking.
Set it once.Zo keeps it running.
Spend more time on human work. Zo runs recurring tasks across your apps, files, and sites, and delivers the results wherever you are.
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Set it up in four steps.
Step 1Set the frequency and time
Fridays 9:00 AMEvery morningMonthly
Every morning, Fridays at 9, the first of the month. Say it in words and Zo keeps the clock.
Step 2Pick your channel
Email, SMS, Telegram, Slack, or Discord: results land wherever you already are.
Step 3Describe the job
Chase overdue invoices every Friday
Plain language, the way you would brief a person. No flowcharts, no node editors.
Step 4Pick a persona and model
BKBookkeeperClaudeFast model
Match the worker to the work: a careful frontier model for the analysis, a fast one for the routine.
Your busywork, on a schedule.
An automation is a skill with a clock: the invoice chaser that runs every Friday, the digest that lands every Monday, the backup that happens every night whether you remember it or not. Describe the job in plain language, pick any model for it, and it runs even while your laptop is closed.
Automations that touch real files.
Because your automations run on a real computer, they can open the spreadsheet, update the ledger, rebuild the site when your notes change, and save the work. Not just ping another app. And every run leaves its trail in your chats.
Automation questions, answered.
What can trigger an automation?
Does my computer need to be on?
No. Automations run on your Zo, which is an always-on computer in the cloud. Close the laptop, get on the plane; the Friday invoice chaser still runs Friday.
How is Zo different from Zapier, Make, or n8n?
Zapier, Make, and n8n are visual automation builders: you drag and connect blocks to design a workflow, and they move data between your apps along exactly the paths you diagrammed. They can't make judgment calls or create anything new. Zo is a cloud computer powered by AI with an agent that actually gets things done: you describe what you want in plain language and Zo figures out how, writing the code, making decisions, and adapting each time it runs. It can read your inbox and flag what matters, draft a reply in your voice, research a competitor, build a website, and run on a schedule while you sleep.
What do automations cost to run?
Runs use your plan's included AI credits like any other Zo work, and you pick the model per automation, so a nightly file copy can run cheap while the weekly analysis gets a frontier model.
Where do the results go?
Wherever you want them: your inbox, a text, Telegram, Discord, or Slack, plus the work itself saved to your files. Every run also leaves its record in your chats so you can audit what happened.