Getting started

MadMax is a workflow automation platform: you draw a directed graph of steps on a canvas, and the server runs it when its trigger fires — a webhook, a schedule, or you clicking run.

The workflows index: the health strip tracks active workflows, 7-day runs and failures, and anything needing attention.

Your first workflow

1. From Workflows, hit + new workflow and give it a name.
2. Pick how you want to build:
   • Describe it — type what you want in the Build with AI box ("every morning, fetch the top posts from r/SaaS and Slack me a summary"). Max plans the workflow, builds it step by step, and test-runs each step as it goes.
   • Build by hand — leave the box empty and drag steps from the palette onto the canvas.
3. When the graph does what you want, hit Activate. That freezes the current canvas into a snapshot and starts firing triggers against it.

Guided vs. advanced

The canvas has two modes, switchable any time from the pill in the left panel:

• Guided walks the plan step by step — Max proposes a plan, builds each block, verifies it against real data, and asks you only when it needs something (a credential, a sample payload, a decision).
• Advanced is the raw canvas: palette, inspector, wires. Everything Max can do, you can do by hand.

Both modes edit the same workflow — switching never loses work.

Saving and versions

There is no save button. Every canvas edit autosaves; Activate pins an immutable snapshot that triggers fire against, so you can keep editing the live canvas without touching what's running. Deactivate any time to stop triggers — the snapshot survives for audit.

Where things live