Why I Started Getsper And Why Automation Should Start With Your Workflows

The Problem Nobody Talks About

Every organization has them: documented workflows. Onboarding new employees. Daily reporting. Lead nurturing. Content creation. Email campaigns. Customer support processes. These aren’t unique—they’re repeatable, well-defined processes that your team executes again and again.

And almost nobody automates them first.

Instead, companies invest in new tools, new hires, new systems. But the workflows themselves? They stay manual. People execute step-by-step procedures that rarely change. Hours per week disappear into work that could be automated but isn’t.

This is the problem I wanted to fix.

The Current Solution (And Why It’s Incomplete)

Tools like n8n, Zapier, and Make are fantastic. They let you build automation without writing code. But here’s what I discovered while building with them: they require you to define everything upfront through rules.

Your workflow has variations? Add more rules. Data structures shift slightly? Add more conditions. An edge case appears? More complexity. Over time, the automations become brittle—harder to maintain, harder to debug, easier to break.

The fundamental problem: rules-based automation assumes perfect consistency. But real workflows have variation. Real data is messy. Real business processes evolve.

And when you account for all that messiness? The complexity explodes.

The Vision: Agents as Team Members

Here’s what I wanted instead: What if your workflow automation was more like hiring a new team member?

When you bring a new employee into a process, you don’t hand them a rulebook. You:

Explain the workflow’s purpose and desired output
Show them what tools and systems they can access
Give them context and supervision
Let them learn by doing

Over time, through feedback and repetition, they get better. They understand nuances. They handle edge cases. They require less oversight.

That’s the Getsper vision.

Instead of rules, we use AI agents. Instead of rigid conditions, we give agents:

Clear inputs (what triggers the workflow)
Defined goals (what outcome you want)
Access to tools (MCP servers, APIs, your system landscape)
Guardrails (structured workflows with defined boundaries)

The agent performs the workflow. Through observability (we can see what it did and why), we know if it succeeded. Through memory (the agent learns from each run), it improves over time.

How It Works

1. Design the Workflow
You define the workflow’s start point, inputs, desired outputs, and the tools the agent can access. Think of it like onboarding documentation.

2. Trigger the Workflow
Manually, on a schedule, or when an event occurs. The agent starts executing.

3. Observe & Learn
You see what the agent did, whether it achieved the goal, and how well it did it. Like observing a new colleague’s work.

4. Improve Through Iteration
Each run, the agent’s memory grows. It learns what works. The output quality improves. Over time, it needs less supervision.

Why This Matters

Most automation treats processes as static. But your workflows are alive—they change, improve, and evolve. An agent-based approach handles that naturally.

The people on your team shift from executors to architects and process owners. Instead of spending 3 hours a day on onboarding workflows, your manager designs the workflow once, supervises the agent learning it, and then focuses on strategy.

It’s more human. It’s more flexible. And it scales in a way rule-based automation doesn’t.

Where We Are Now

Getsper is in alpha. We’re building the core platform:

Workflow definition and orchestration
Agent execution with memory
Observability and monitoring
Tool/MCP server integration
Feedback loops for agent improvement

We’re testing with early users, gathering feedback, and refining how agents learn and improve.

We’re Building in Public

This is early. The vision is clear, but the execution is still taking shape. We’re documenting everything, sharing what we learn, and we want your feedback.

What we’re asking:

Do you have workflows you’d want to automate?
What workflows are most painful right now?
What would you need from an agent-based automation tool?
What are you skeptical about?

Join the Beta

If this resonates—if you’re managing workflows and want to see agents take on that repetitive work—we’d love to have you in the beta.

You’ll help shape Getsper. You’ll get early access. And you’ll help us build automation that actually works for how teams really operate.

Register for beta via Link in footer → Feedback welcome

What’s Your Experience?

Have you tried automating workflows? What worked? What was frustrating? Hit reply or drop a comment—let’s talk about this.

We’re just getting started, and we’re building this together.