# General Input launches: AI-written workflow automation

> General Input is live in public beta. Describe an automation in plain English and an AI agent plans, builds, tests, and runs it.

Mar 17, 2026. Topics: Workflows, Agents, Integrations. https://www.generalinput.com/changelog/2026-03-17-general-input-launch

General Input is live in public beta. You describe a job in plain English, and an AI agent turns it into a workflow: a real program that runs on a schedule or in response to events, presented as a document you can read and edit rather than a flowchart of nodes. Read the [launch announcement](/blog/introducing-general-input).

### What you could do on day one

- **Plan first, then build.** The builder agent writes a narrative plan with chips for each connected account and setting, waits for your approval, then writes TypeScript and test-runs it in an isolated sandbox.
- **No fake data.** The builder may not mock responses or hardcode anything user-specific; recipients and search terms become configurable inputs.
- **Triggers.** Run from the dashboard or by HTTP, on cron schedules, or from Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Forms, Google Sheets, Reddit, RSS, and Stripe.
- **A chat agent** (then called Geni, today the Chief of Staff) in the dashboard, Slack, and Telegram that runs workflows and does one-off work with your connected accounts.
- **Built-in services and models.** Web search, scraping, AI, and image generation with no extra keys, and a choice of Claude, Gemini, and MiniMax models.
- **Templates.** Dozens of ready-made workflows for sales, operations, and customer success.