Overview
Nodal is an operational orchestration platform. It connects your people, systems, and processes into automated flows that run your business.
What is Flow Studio?
Flow Studio is the visual designer where you build business process flows. Each flow is a sequence of steps — triggers that start the process, tasks assigned to people, data transformations, API calls to external systems, and decision logic that routes work based on conditions.
What are Action Flows?
Action Flows are running instances of a flow. When a flow is triggered — by an API call, a schedule, or a manual start — it creates an Action Flow that tracks the execution through each step. Team members see their assigned tasks in the Action Flows dashboard and complete them to advance the process.
How a flow runs
1
Trigger fires
A flow starts when its trigger activates — an API call, a schedule, or a manual start.
2
Steps execute in sequence
Each node runs in order. Data flows from one step to the next. Conditions and switches route the path.
3
Pauses when needed
Human Tasks wait for a person to respond. Wait for Event nodes wait for an external webhook. The flow resumes automatically when the input arrives.
4
Completes or fails
The flow reaches the end and completes, or an error occurs and it fails. All execution data is logged.