Automatisch

Automating your workflows does not have to be difficult or expensive. Automatisch connects services such as Twitter and Slack so routine business processes run without anyone clicking through them, it needs no programming knowledge, and it is positioned squarely against hosted automation products rather than as a developer library.

The reason to run it yourself is where the data ends up. Automating a workflow through a cloud service means handing that service everything the workflow touches, which is a problem for healthcare, finance and any European company answering to GDPR. Automatisch keeps that data on servers you own.

Three arguments come up in the project's own comparison with hosted alternatives.

• Data residency: everything stays on your own infrastructure, which matters for sensitive and regulated workloads.
• Open development: as open source software, anyone can shape how the tool evolves.
• No vendor lock-in: switching away is easier than moving between cloud providers, because you already hold the data and the flexibility.

Licensing is split across the repository. Files with .ee. in the name fall under the enterprise license, and everything else is AGPL-3.0, kept in one repository to make development easier.

A local install is a git clone followed by docker compose up, which starts with a default account whose email and password you are expected to change immediately from the settings page. Other installation routes are covered in the guide.