https://zapier.com/blog A blog about productivity, workflow automation, company building and how to get things done with less work. Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:07:29 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/best-resume-builder Searching for a job is becoming a job of its own. With so many open positions, tests, and interview stages, joining the workforce or moving up is becoming harder. And with screening software automatically disqualifying candidates, the chances to get some 1-on-1 time with recruiters grow thin. But you have something powerful in your corner: AI-powered resume builders can help you generate a starting resume from scratch, optimize an existing one, and help you adapt it to every single job opening y Miguel Rebelo Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/best-resume-builder https://zapier.com/blog/best-ai-social-media-management Click publish, exhale. Start again. Tomorrow's post doesn't write itself. What are people discussing right now? Dive into analytics, surface trends, reply to 15 DMs. And then you go viral, your sales dashboard goes through the roof—but no more free time for you in the next three weeks. Congratulations? The content hamster wheel isn't going away, but AI is here to help you run faster, with more control, and higher capacity to react to trends. It can listen in on social conversations that matter t Miguel Rebelo Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/best-ai-social-media-management https://zapier.com/blog/jotform-vs-typeform Back when I was scrolling through my first website in the mid-'90s—I'm almost certain it was SpaceJam.com—web forms were still in their nascent stage. Websites were treated more as one-way communication devices, like newspapers. Forms changed all that. At first, forms were clunky HTML elements that you had to pinch-and-zoom to interact with on small screens. Eventually, Jotform, Typeform, and other online form builders came along to improve the user experience and boost conversions. Jotform and Ryan Kane Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/jotform-vs-typeform https://zapier.com/blog/claude-code You've probably used software built with Claude Code, maybe even already today. Companies like HubSpot and Atlassian use it to fix bugs and ship new features, and Anthropic itself reports that 80% of Claude's code was generated with its AI coding tool. Originally built for engineers, Claude Code packs a wide range of capabilities to speed up the software development process. But it's so easy to pick up that non-technical folks have jumped in to build their custom tools and prototypes, too. I'm s Miguel Rebelo Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/claude-code https://zapier.com/blog/claude-models Anthropic's Claude family has four primary models: Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, and Fable. The version numbers are inconsistent between them; as I write this, Opus 5.5 just dropped, Fable 5.1 came out on September 1, 2026, Sonnet 5 was released on June 30, 2026, and Haiku is still on 4.5 and launched in October 2025—though a new model is due out soon. There's also Mythos, but the general public doesn't have access to that.  All four Claude models are incredibly capable. Even the smallest model, Haiku, i Harry Guinness Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/claude-models https://zapier.com/blog/jev When you ask an LLM to give you a confidence score for any decision it makes, you get vibes. I've built tools where the model said it had 95% confidence in a response, and then promptly changed its tune when I asked again 30 seconds later. This makes it hard to control hallucinations or imprecision, and it's a big barrier to fully automating segments of workflows, such as a complex customer support routing system. And then Jev hit the scene. It's a decision-making AI model that's not an LLM, can Miguel Rebelo Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/jev https://zapier.com/blog/ai-watermark AI-generated content isn't always easy to spot, which can lead to tricky situations, to put it lightly. As a result, most of the major AI companies now automatically add watermarks to the images, videos, and—increasingly—text their models generate.  If you create an image with ChatGPT or get Claude to write your press release (or do your homework), it may now include a secret sign that it was AI-generated—or, at the very least, that you used AI to assist you. Part of this is because of legal req Harry Guinness Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/ai-watermark https://zapier.com/blog/automate-chatgpt OpenAI is rolling out new models all the time, and you can see the improvements and power even in a quick back-and-forth with ChatGPT. But as much as we all love shooting the breeze with an AI chatbot, the real question is how you can put the AI models to use in your work. All of ChatGPT's state-of-the-art models are available in Zapier. That means you can add ChatGPT-powered steps to your existing workflows, or securely access and take action in apps directly from ChatGPT, without ever leaving Steph Spector Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/automate-chatgpt https://zapier.com/blog/automate-claude With every new model release, Claude tops almost every benchmark. And chatting with Claude makes it clear why: it's good at everything. But while there's power in a back-and-forth conversation, you can accomplish a lot more when you use Zapier to connect Claude to the rest of your apps and let automation carry out entire workflows for you. Here's how it works. Table of contents: Add Claude's brain to your existing workflows Automate workflows directly from Claude Claude automation FAQ Add Claude Steph Spector Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/automate-claude https://zapier.com/blog/ai-models-on-zapier Staying up to date on the latest AI models is like trying to keep my house vacuumed in the height of my dog's shedding season (a losing battle). New AI models drop practically every week, and it's not exactly obvious which ones deserve a spot in your workflows. This guide is your cheat sheet, with every model you can automate on Zapier right now, sorted by provider. If you just want to cut to the chase and find out which model you should be using for which task, that's what AutomationBench is fo Nicole Replogle Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/ai-models-on-zapier https://zapier.com/blog/biorender-sales-followup Jocelyne (Joce) Mendez-Guzman is no stranger to the Zappy Awards. In 2025, she won our Operations Automator of the Year for a workflow that processed accounts receivable tickets 69% faster. With that win under her belt, she moved into BioRender's RevOps team, where her work now supports teammates across GTM. This year, she’s back as the 2026 Sales AI Builder of the Year, helping those teams follow up on calls 85% faster. Joce built a follow-up system her reps can trust, giving GTM teams speed wi Rob Ayre Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/biorender-sales-followup https://zapier.com/blog/jobber-ai-transformation-leader When companies talk about AI transformation, they often start with what they rolled out: the model, the license, the training program, or the pilot. Ethan Schwandt started somewhere more useful: the work. As Senior Manager, Talent Acceleration at Jobber, Ethan helped employees recognize where AI and automation could remove a recurring handoff, reduce manual work, or make information easier to act on. He paired that opportunity-spotting with practical enablement, clear governance, and hands-on su Rob Ayre Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/jobber-ai-transformation-leader https://zapier.com/blog/hims-hers-recruiting-workflow-rex When personal automation becomes organizational infrastructure Carlos Robledo is a Lead Technical Sourcer at Hims & Hers. When he got tired of spending hours every Friday building hiring reports for stakeholders, he built Rex, a 19-workflow system that now serves recruiters across the talent organization. There was a specific moment that triggered Rex. While working with his Chief Product Officer, Carlos was responsible for producing two major updates across several open requisitions. The work m Rob Ayre Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/hims-hers-recruiting-workflow-rex https://zapier.com/blog/figma-background-check-triage Ariel Chen coordinates People Operations at Figma, where a two-person team tracks over 100 background checks each month across 12 countries. In a role where a missed screen can delay someone's start date or create compliance issues, Ariel built a system her team can rely on. When every screen says “pending” Figma hires globally, and international background checks often take longer than the two-week lead time between onboarding cohorts.  But every background check showed the same generic "pendin Rob Ayre Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/figma-background-check-triage https://zapier.com/blog/klaviyo-ai-tech-stack-tracker Doug Hamilton built an AI Tech Stack Tracker, an automated intelligence system that helps Klaviyo’s Talent Acquisition team keep up with fast-moving AI tools and turn updates into action. Every hour, the tracker polls more than a dozen AI tools directly. Claude translates raw changelogs into plain-language relevance for recruiting work, then a weekly digest delivers updates based on what each teammate cares about. A “Try it out” feature sends a personalized, role-specific guide to Slack. A “Shar Rob Ayre Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/klaviyo-ai-tech-stack-tracker https://zapier.com/blog/youtech-phone-revenue-attribution Making invisible revenue visible Justin Hallman runs PPC campaigns at Youtech Agency. Every paid click has a cost. The harder number to see is what that click becomes: a qualified lead, a proposal, a signed contract, or a completed project. Most agencies optimize toward the signals Google can see—clicks, calls, and form fills. Justin built a way to connect those signals to the real outcomes they drive for their clients. The blind spot costing clients money The idea started in an unrelated client Rob Ayre Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/youtech-phone-revenue-attribution https://zapier.com/blog/compucom-it-systems-bridge Nicholas Francoeur manages infrastructure technology for Compucom, a 5,000-employee company running technology deployments and on-site support across hundreds of client sites nationwide. When off-the-shelf tools couldn't handle complex field operations at the scale he needed, Nicholas did not wait for vendors to catch up. The disconnect that costs hours every day Technicians spent entire eight-hour shifts manually logging 50 to 100 hardware assets per site. They photographed equipment, then hand Rob Ayre Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/compucom-it-systems-bridge https://zapier.com/blog/galgo-delivery-evidence-ai-review Ignacio Piñeiro runs operations at Galgo, a fintech that lends money for motorcycles across Mexico. Every loan he approves hinges on a simple question: Did this delivery actually happen as it should? Three thousand photos, one last chance Each motorcycle Galgo finances requires proof of delivery — a photo of the customer with their new vehicle — before they can start collecting the loan. That photo is the company's main defense against delivery fraud. If fake, wrong, or low-quality evidence slip Rob Ayre Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/galgo-delivery-evidence-ai-review https://zapier.com/blog/zappy-awards-winners-2026 Most companies still measure AI by what they roll out: seats bought, licenses assigned, and pilots launched. Those numbers prove that the company has started. They don’t prove anything changed. The 2026 Zappy Award winners measure it differently. Every one of them moved a number that their business already reports on. At Galgo, the rate of invalid delivery evidence fell from about eight percent to under two percent across more than 3,000 monthly submissions. At Youtech, $213,000 in phone revenue Rob Ayre Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/zappy-awards-winners-2026 https://zapier.com/blog/automation-vs-ai Artificial intelligence (AI) has been powering the tools we use in our everyday lives for decades now. And every time powerful advancements in AI are released, conversations around the good, the bad, and the ugly of AI inevitably dominate the headlines. Amid all the noise, I've noticed people throwing around buzzwords like "AI" and "automation" (and, if they're feeling fancy, "agentic AI") and using them interchangeably. Only, they're not the same thing. Here, I'll break down the key points you Anna Burgess Yang Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/automation-vs-ai https://zapier.com/blog/content-engineering The first time I saw the term "content engineering" mentioned on LinkedIn, I rolled my eyes and assumed it was another AI trend designed to end the careers of content writers like me. As I dug into it, though, I realized content engineering isn't just another AI-slop trend claiming to replace writers, editors, strategists, or subject matter experts. Instead, it's a system that helps their expertise move through content production more efficiently and without starting from a blank page. Here's ev Sara J. Nguyen Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/content-engineering https://zapier.com/blog/openai-models Keeping track of all the new AI models getting released at the moment is practically a full-time job. The most recent GPT-6 models were first released about two months after the GPT-5.6 series, which itself was released less than three months after GPT 5.5—you get the picture. I've been writing about OpenAI's models for the past few years, and it feels like every time I publish an article, another new model drops. OpenAI seems to be serious about pushing point-releases more frequently rather tha Harry Guinness Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/openai-models https://zapier.com/blog/ai-governance-for-small-teams I don't do new hobbies halfway. Baking, sewing, whatever it is—I'll disappear into inspiration boards, overbuy supplies, and find myself fully invested in a niche I joined only four hours ago. Unfortunately, that's when I hit a wall. Turns out enthusiasm and a can-do attitude only get you so far.  Many businesses are approaching AI exactly like I approach a new hobby: all enthusiasm, shaky planning. And it's happening at scale.  The majority of SMBs (76%) have adopted some form of automation, ra Lane Gillespie Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/ai-governance-for-small-teams https://zapier.com/blog/ai-in-hr I spent the first stretch of my career in learning and development, which mostly involved building training programs, writing curriculum, and trying to get people to finish a course they signed up for in a moment of optimism. These days I'm Zapier's AI Innovation Lead for People. I spend most of my week building systems that do the copy-paste work my team and I used to do by hand, and showing customers how their HR team can do that, too. That's all to say, at this point, I'm an expert on AI in Emily Mabie Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/ai-in-hr https://zapier.com/blog/claude-ai I've been using Claude long enough to remember when the main selling point was that it was a nicer chatbot to talk to than the alternatives. (That's still true, for what it's worth.) But Claude no longer just talks to you about your work; it also does your work for you. You can give Claude a project, head off to make a coffee, and check in occasionally when questions pop up. For enterprises looking to get real productivity gains from AI, Claude has become the default choice. And Claude is equall Ryan Kane Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/claude-ai