Suzzane, our technical consultant, is super excited to try out the new Make.com feature. Introduced at Waves 2024, Make Grid can create a unique view of your entire automation landscape.
What is it, exactly? It’s a visual grid to help you understand what you’ve built on the Make platform. At the time of writing this blog post, Make Grid was still under beta testing.
As of 2023, 2 million people used Make.com to automate their workflows and visually integrate applications. Due to the addition of 300 new apps, the Make community also grew by 60%.
How can this popular automation platform become even better? Let’s find that out in this blog post about Make Grid.
Understanding Make Grid
Make.com’s co-founders were amazed and inspired by what users have done with the platform. The idea behind Make Grid comes from how users customised this automation platform to fit their needs.
Don’t you think it’s complex when so many tools get integrated on a single platform without proper visualisation? Wouldn’t it be great if you could just see what you and your team are building on the Make.com platform and how everything connects?
Make Grid is nothing but a visual approach to unlocking your company’s scalability. Here’s what it can do:
Display how objects and tools are connected.
Showcase how information flows through your organisation.
Empower your team to streamline workflows.
How Can Make Grid Streamline Your Workflows?
This question goes out to every Make.com user: Have you ever wanted to know exactly how the automated workflows, data, and systems are connected on the platform?
With Make Grid, you can bring that functionality to life. This groundbreaking new tool can help streamline your automation workflow by:
Visually displaying the entire automation landscape in one place
Managing the complexity of automation at scale with a visual experience
Centralising how data is connected and the ways information flows in the landscape
The Grid feature goes beyond the favourite Make.com use cases that we discussed in a previous blog post. With this new tool, you can gain control of the automation landscape you’ve created.
How Did Make Grid Come to Be?
The founders of Make.com wanted to democratise automation through this no-code and highly accessible platform. What users did with this tool goes beyond anything the Make team had imagined.Â
In 2023, this platform generated an annual recurring revenue of USD 40 million. However, hidden behind this growth were the issues with automation complexity.Â
The Challenges Within
Users complained about not being able to manage large-scale automations. For example, they couldn’t get an overview of the connected apps like Google Sheets, OpenAI, and Airtable in a single space.Â
Other challenges of using the Make.com platform include:
Tracking Dependencies
It can be tricky to find every instance of a tool or object throughout the workflow. For example, you cannot track dependencies on Google Sheets or Webhook when replacing tools, locating triggers, etc.
Breaking Automation Chains
When making changes to the landscape, users feared that it would have an impact on the automation stream. For instance, updating Airtable fields or adding Webhook responses seemed challenging because they couldn’t see the entire workflow in one go.
Collaboration Issues
Since Make.com is highly customisable, you might not understand others' automations. When a teammate resigns or is on PTO, their colleagues might be intimidated by their automation landscape. It can surely be hard to adjust to someone else’s workflow without their expertise.
The Solution?
The users spent a lot of time creating dependency tables and complex diagrams for their documentation. Some even went to extreme lengths and built custom tooling. These quickly became outdated because of the constant change in workflow and data.
To help address such complexities, the team at Make.com created the Make Grid tool. Hence, users no longer have to spend time and energy on visualising the automation data on this platform.
The Capabilities of Make Grid: What Can This Make.com Tool Do?
The Make Grid automatically generates an interactive map of your automation solutions. Even though it’s in beta testing, this tool is already making users excited.Â
This Make.com feature allows you to see how all the applications are connected and the process in which data flows across them. You can simply use filters to zoom in on certain automation details or zoom out to get a bigger view of the workflow.
Make Grid works on a visual-first approach, making it easy for users to understand the complex dependencies and connections. With this unique Make.com feature, you can:
Build automations confidently: You can visualise the dependencies at a glance between objects and keep innovating or changing the workflow.
Zoom out for insights: You’ll get a full view of the automation landscape you or your team member has created to quickly act on optimising opportunities.Â
Boost collaboration: A holistic view of the Make.com workflow allows every team member to understand each other’s work effectively and smoothly.
Efficient automation: You can spot optimisation opportunities in Make Grid that help change your automations to keep them running efficiently.
Avoid issues: You can quickly identify and fix any failures or broken workflows in the automation landscape.
Make Grid can also enhance visibility, leading to a transparent and scalable workflow that meets evolving needs. Your team can be empowered to automate faster and innovate even when your company faces customer demand and technological changes.
Why Use Make Grid to View Your Make.com Workflow?
Your businesses will surely face continuous technical updates. Examples include new APIs, advancements in existing tools, and more. McKinsey & Company state that 71% of business transformation impacts depend on technological changes.
That’s why your company must stay agile to enhance scalability. A no-code solution like Make.com can help you, but the growing need for new applications can turn it into a tangled web.
Make Grid provides a visually intuitive layout of your entire automation workflow. It’s designed to provide you control and clarity over this landscape to ensure scalability.Â
Do you want to learn how to use Make Grid once it gets released? Don’t forget to reach out to Fruition Services, certified Make integration partners.
FAQs
What is Make Grid?
It’s a visual grid of your automation landscape. With Make Grid, your organisation can scale up its operations and move workflows faster with confidence. This automatically-generated visual experience will help you take control of the Make.com interface to maintain the efficiency of your innovation. Make Grid can display how objects are connected, the information flowchart, and more.
Is Make Grid still in the beta program?
Yes, the Make.com company wants this feature to be perfect. Early product initiatives do take an uncertain interactive process with unpredictable timelines. To be the first ones to try the capabilities of Make Grid, don’t forget to sign up to join the beta waitlist. Once accepted, it’ll appear in the left panel of your Make.com account without any additional costs.
Who can access Make Grid?
Enterprises participating in the Make Grid beta program can choose who can access this feature. For instance, you can activate this only for selected users in your organisation. Each of the Make.com users will have a personalised view that only displays areas of the workflow they have access to.
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