FluidGrids Overview
FluidGrids is visual workflow automation on Burdenoff Workspaces. You draw a workflow on a canvas — a trigger, then the steps that should follow — and FluidGrids runs it in the background, keeps every version, and shows you exactly what happened on every run.
The product is generally available at app.fluidgrids.ai. It ships as a web app, as installable desktop and mobile shells, as an embeddable React SDK, and as a GraphQL API with a CLI and SDKs on top.
The five things you work with
| Concept | What it is | Where you see it |
|---|---|---|
| Workflow | A graph of nodes connected by edges. Identified by a stable key; every save creates a new version. | My Workflows and the Visual Builder |
| Node | One step. Trigger nodes start a run, built-in nodes control flow and shape data, store nodes talk to external services. | The Node Blocks panel and Node Store inside the builder |
| Run (execution) | One execution of one workflow version, with per-node input, output, logs, and status. | Runs |
| Connection (credential) | A stored, authorised link to an external service — an OAuth grant or an API key. | Credentials (the Connections screen) |
| Template | A workflow you can copy as a starting point — your own published workflows or templates from the Store. | Templates |
See Core Concepts for the deeper model, including versions, activation, and triggers.
What ships today
- Visual Builder — a React Flow canvas with a searchable node panel, drop-on-edge insertion, single-click quick configuration, a full node editor, a data mapper, condition builder, sticky notes, and live logs. See Visual Builder.
- 51 nodes on the canvas — 21 built-in nodes (branching, loops, merges, waits, transforms, code, HTTP, logging) plus 30 store nodes (Slack, Gmail, GitHub, Stripe, Salesforce, HubSpot, Google Workspace, PostgreSQL, Airtable, OpenAI, Anthropic, an AI Agent, and more). See Understanding Nodes.
- Five trigger types — Trigger Manually (API), Webhook, Schedule, Form, and Error — plus app-event trigger operations on the Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Sheets nodes. See Workflows.
- Durable background execution — runs are queued and executed by horizontally scaled workers with per-node state, retries, pause/resume, cancel, and a live, searchable run log. See Runs.
- Versioning and activation — every save mints an immutable version; you choose which version is Active, and the Active version is what webhooks and schedules execute. See Workflows and History.
- Connections — OAuth and API-key connections to external services, managed in one place and selected inside nodes. See Credentials.
- Templates — reuse your own workflows or import from the Store. See Templates.
- FluidGrids AI — a floating assistant that can build a workflow from a prompt, answer questions about the screen you are on, or scaffold a new node package. See AI Assistant.
- Team features — six FluidGrids roles, workspace isolation, audit trail, usage quotas, and billing, all inherited from Burdenoff Workspaces. See Roles and Permissions and Plans and Quotas.
- Developer surface — GraphQL API, CLI, Node and Python SDKs, an MCP server, browser and VS Code extensions, and the embeddable
@burdenoff/fluidgrids-fe-sdk. See For Developers.
Who FluidGrids is for
- Operations and automation leads who want to replace spreadsheet-and-email glue with governed, observable automations — without writing code.
- Developers who need to integrate systems, add custom logic with Code nodes, or drive workflows from their own services.
- Data teams who use workflows as the ETL layer feeding BigConsole dashboards through DataSink nodes.
- AI practitioners who want LLM calls, agents with tools, and structured parsing inside production workflows.
- SaaS product teams who embed the same builder inside their own product with the frontend SDK.
- Burdenoff Workspaces customers whose automations should plug into the same identity, billing, permissions, and audit fabric as everything else.
Environments
| Environment | App | Who uses it |
|---|---|---|
| Production (default) | https://app.fluidgrids.ai | Everyone |
| Alpha | https://alphaapp.fluidgrids.ai | Burdenoff staff only — gated by Cloudflare Access, no availability guarantee |
The CLI and SDKs talk to the workspace GraphQL gateway and default to production. See Choosing an endpoint if you need to point a tool elsewhere.
What's next
- Quick Start — sign up and run your first workflow in a few minutes
- For Users — one page per screen of the app
- Core Concepts — workflows, nodes, versions, runs, and templates explained
- For Developers — API, CLI, SDKs, extensions, and custom nodes