Birds

What is a Bird?

In Blackbird, a Bird refers to an automated workflow, designed to streamline tasks by connecting various applications seamlessly. Blackbird users design Birds to perform specific sequences of operations automatically — saving time, reducing manual work, and ensuring consistency across processes.

Each Bird starts with a trigger, an event that kicks off the workflow. This is followed by one or more actions, which interact with the apps available in the Blackbird ecosystem. The output of one action can be passed to subsequent actions, creating a dynamic chain of automated steps.

Birds are built and configured in the Bird Editor tab.

Birds can be renamed, exported/imported, copied to other Nests, or cloned to test variations.

A Bird can include:

• An initial trigger
• One or more actions
• Checkpoints to pause a process
• Decision points to control the workflow path
• Loops for repeated actions
• Operators for logic and transformations

Once a Bird has taken off, it creates Flights — executions of the workflow.

Mastering Birds is the key to unlocking the full power of Blackbird.