Summary: - The episode by Andrés Díaz explores using Zapier with AI to automate data flow from forms to a spreadsheet and send personalized emails in minutes, creating automatic lead capture, responses, and logging in Google Sheets. - Zapier with AI combines the automation engine with AI features (AI Actions, Interfaces, Tables, Canvas) to generate suggested workflows and enrich data (classification, summaries, data extraction) while connecting with Google Forms, Gmail, and Google Sheets. - Three-step plan: - Map the data path: choose a form, decide where data goes (a spreadsheet with clean columns), and determine the email content (welcome, agenda, coupon). - Build the automation with the AI generator: create with AI, define the trigger (e.g., form submission), map fields to columns, and optionally add AI steps to enrich data (e.g., classify lead interest, summarize long answers). - Customize the welcome email: use dynamic fields, add links, set filters and paths, and consider delays for timing. - Shortcuts and features: use Zapier Interfaces to build forms connected to Tables or Sheets, Canvas to design processes, and Email Parser to extract data from incoming lead emails. - Recent improvements: AI Actions allow conversational tasks in authorized apps; AI generator improves templates/mappings; built-in AI steps translate, clean text, and detect sentiment. - Free plan strategy: since it supports only single-step automations, split into two automations (form-to-sheet and then new-row-to-email) and upgrade later as needed. - Testing and reliability: run test submissions, review run history for inputs/outputs and warnings, secure sheets with fixed headers and a date column, and use find-or-create to avoid duplicates. - Extending to sales: add steps to create a CRM contact, create follow-up tasks, and use a digest for daily summaries; alert internal chat for hot leads. - Self-check and takeaway: ensure form validation, clean sheet columns, and a valuable welcome email; automation saves time and builds trust. - Trends to apply now: onboarding emails, Google Forms–Sheets linking, personalized auto-responses, AI lead classification, and creating forms with Interfaces without coding; try it for under an hour to reduce errors. - Practical invitation: define the workflow objective, design the form, prepare the sheet and email, and let Zapier with AI assemble the pieces; you’ll feel relief from automation. - Contact: thanks for listening; subscribe, review, or share; reach out at the provided email. Remeber you can contact me at [email protected]