# Automate users’ tasks across 3rd party apps

Build event-driven workflows to automate actions across your users' 3rd party apps in real-time.

### How this works in Paragon

Trigger automations, transform data, and take action across your users’ entire workflow.

#### 3rd-party Actions

Take action across your users’ 3rd party apps when an event occurs in your application

- Trigger automations with events in your app via App Events or your own webhooks API
- Easily map data to 3rd party objects with pre-built actions
- Supports any endpoint, including fields and objects

#### Workflow Builder

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```javascript
define(
    integration: IQuickbooksIntegration,
    context: IContext<InputResultMap>,
    connectUser: IConnectUser<IPersona<typeof personaMeta>>, 
) {
    const triggerStep = new EventStep(newSale);
    const actionStep = integration.actions.createInvoice({
        CustomerId: `${triggerStep.output.customer_id}`,
        invoiceLinesV1: `[
            {
                "Amount": ${triggerStep.output.amount},
                "SalesItemLineDetail": {
                    "ItemRef": {"name": ${triggerStep.output.name}, "value": "1"}
                }
            }
        ]`,
        customerMemo: `${triggerStep.output.message}`,
        currencyId: 'USD',
    }, {
        autoRetry: true,
        continueWorkflowOnError: false,
        description: 'Create Invoice in QBO',
    });
    triggerStep.nextStep(actionStep);
    return this.register({ triggerStep, actionStep });
}
```

## Generating AI automations in natural language

Copy.ai uses Paragon to ship integration triggers and actions into their AI go-to-market SaaS product.

### Offer users configurability

Enable users to customize certain settings based on their own preferences without diverging from your business logic.

#### Workflows

Easily define the business logic behind your automation use cases, and deploy it to all your users.

#### Embedded Connect Portal

Enable users to safely customize the behavior of the automation with user settings.

### Powered by our Workflow Engine

Architected to reliably execute automations concurrently in a high availability run-time.

- **1,600 Requests per second**
- **2TB Data per day**

Workflow engine run syncs and automations at scale. Workflows can retry from errors automatically, replay from the original request payload, and show input and output for every running step.

### Build user-facing automations in minutes

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