Workflows & Sheets

What these are

Workflows and Sheets are Slate's most powerful, structured way to get work done. A workflow is a custom automation you build once and reuse: a pipeline that runs a series of steps for you. A sheet turns your whole site into a spreadsheet so you can change hundreds of pages at once. Where Cowork is freeform and recipes are one-click playbooks, these two are for serious work at scale. The simplest way to hold them apart: a workflow is about the process, a sheet is about scale.

What they do

Workflows

A workflow is built visually, on a canvas. Each step is a block, and you chain blocks together so the output of one flows into the next. You are not writing code. You are snapping together building blocks into a pipeline that does exactly what you want, every time you run it. The block library gives you:

• AI blocks to write content, generate images, and humanize text.
• Slate data blocks that pull your own numbers, like AI visibility, citations, and prompt performance.
• Research blocks that bring in outside data, like keyword and domain metrics.
• Publishing blocks that push straight to your CMS.
• Super blocks, which package several steps into one reusable piece so you can build faster.

Once a workflow is built, you can Test All to run the whole thing and check the output before you rely on it. Every change is versioned, with History to look back, and you Publish when it is ready to run.

Sheets

A sheet turns your site into a spreadsheet. Each row is a page, so all your pages line up in one place. Each column is an action that runs down every row at once. So you add a column to rewrite the intro or refresh the metadata, and Slate applies it to every page in the sheet in one go. You review the results in the grid, then publish the changes in batches, without leaving Slate. Work that used to take days takes minutes.

How you use it

Building and running a workflow

1. Open Automate and click Create workflow, or open an existing one.
2. Drag blocks from the library onto the canvas and connect them in the order you want.
3. Configure each block with its inputs and settings.
4. Hit Test All to run the whole flow and check the output.
5. Publish it when it works, and run it whenever you need it. Use History to review versions.

Building and running a sheet

1. Open Sheets and create a sheet, bringing in the pages you want to work on as rows.
2. Add a column for each change you want to make, for example rewrite intro or refresh meta description.
3. Run the column so Slate applies it to every row at once.
4. Review the results in the grid.
5. Publish the changes in batches.

When to use which

Cowork, recipes, workflows, and sheets are a ladder from flexible to structured. A simple rule:

In short: workflows are about the process, sheets are about scale.

Getting started

1. Open a built-in workflow to see how blocks chain together, then use Test All to watch it run.
2. Build a small workflow of your own, just two or three blocks, and publish it.
3. In Sheets, create a sheet with a handful of pages, add one column such as refresh meta description, and run it.
4. Review the grid and publish that batch.

Summary (quick recap)

In short, a workflow is a custom pipeline you build from blocks and reuse, and a sheet is a spreadsheet of your pages where each column bulk-applies a change.

The workflow: build a pipeline once and reuse it, or line your pages up in a sheet and change them all at once.