Building & running your own
Open Workflows in the left sidebar (or the Workflows panel inside a document) and assemble exactly the run you want.
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What can I put in a workflow?
Every transform step takes the same inputs as the editor: a model tier (Fast, Standard, Pro), an optional instruction, and multi-pick glossaries and styleguides. Leave the pickers empty to use the document’s active ones.
- Transform: translate, proofread, or rewrite with an instruction.
- Analyse: Find blocks takes a short criterion for what to look for. Review the matches as a list, flag them with AI comments, or get suggested fixes you approve. The comment and fix modes accept glossaries and styleguides through the same picker as the transform steps, so a check like “flag blocks that break my glossary” is a find with the glossary attached.
- Export: to Notion, to Google Drive, or Email me the file (a DOCX link that expires after 7 days).
- Ready-made blocks: prefilled steps (Dialogue scan, CTA scan, clause flag, UI-label check). Dropping one copies its config onto the canvas, fully editable. Bookmark any configured step to My blocks to reuse it.
- Translation memory: each transform step and Find blocks have a memory setting (Use document default, On, Off). When on, you get the same Search and AI-context controls as the editor. See translation memory.
What are gates and actions?
Analysis steps can stage their findings for you with their Review setting, which also sets how the review screen opens and what it suggests.
Two document-level actions can close a workflow. Send a notification goes in-app or by email to you, your team, or the document’s CRM client. Set document status moves the document on the CRM board, for example to “Delivered”.
What does running a workflow cost?
Workflows run on the whole document. The confirm dialog lists every step with its settings and the estimated cost before anything is billed. While it runs, a Running now section shows live progress: the current step by name, blocks done, and a line of the model’s own thinking.
- Translate and rewrite bill at the usual rate.
- Proofread bills a read fee of 0.2 credits per source word read (0.5 with vision), plus the mode rate on the blocks it fixes.
- Find blocks bills a scan fee per word scanned. Review-only is free on the default Fast tier (0.1 credits on Standard, 0.2 on Pro; pick those when the criterion needs nuance). Flag-with-comments is 0.1 / 0.25 / 0.5 credits. Suggested fixes add the mode rate on the blocks that get one.
- Exports are always free.
When part of the cost depends on what a scan finds, the dialog shows a range. The read fee is the guaranteed part.
During a proofread step, the line under its progress bar says Checking for issues… while the step reads the translation (Checking part 2 of 4… on a long document), then Fixing 3 of 5 while it writes fixes for the blocks it flagged.
A run that can’t start yet shows Queued — waiting for a free slot and starts on its own as soon as one frees up. On the dashboard its document carries a Queued badge until then.
How do I have Literess build or change a workflow?
You don’t have to drag every step yourself. Describe the workflow to Literess and she assembles it, settings included.
In the builder you can also ask her to change what’s on the canvas (“make the find step look for swear words”). Her edit lands right here with an Apply button to drop it onto your steps; you review and save as usual.
See what Literess can do.
What happens to my workflows if I delete a saved block?
Nothing changes. Bookmarking a configured step to My blocks saves a reusable copy, and dropping one onto a canvas copies its configuration into that workflow, so deleting the saved block never breaks a workflow that used it.
Does the notification step actually email my client?
It can, and that is the one to be deliberate about. Send a notification goes in-app and/or by email to yourself, your team, or the document’s CRM client. The client option emails a real external contact on your behalf, and the builder says so before you run it.
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{document},{findings},{status}, and{workflow}placeholders.Do I have to pick a Notion page or a Drive folder for an export step?
No. Leave the Notion target empty and the export goes to the document’s last Notion location; leave the Drive folder empty and it goes to My Drive. See exports.
Can I share a workflow with my team?
Yes. A workflow is either personal or team-owned, the same as a document or a glossary. Every member of a team can open and edit its team-owned workflows. See teams & invites.
Still stuck? Ask Literess in the app, or write to support@transept.ai.