Triggers and Rules: Vorker Now Works Without Being Asked August 26, 2026 Every AI tool you've used has the same shape. You open it. You type something. It answers. You close it. That's fine for writing a birthday card. It's useless for running a business, because the work that eats your week doesn't arrive when you happen to have a chat window open. It arrives at 7pm on a Thursday as an email from a supplier. This summer we shipped the thing that changes that shape. Vorker can now watch what happens in your connected tools and act on its own. "When this happens, do that", in plain language You don't build a workflow. You describe a rule: "When an invoice arrives by email, save the PDF to Drive and tell me the amount and due date." "When an enquiry lands in my inbox, look up their company and draft a reply." "When a calendar event starts, join it and take notes." Vorker sets up a live rule against your connected accounts. From then on, whenever something happens — a new email in Gmail or Outlook, a calendar event about to start, a new Stripe subscription — Vorker checks whether it matches your rule. If it does, it creates a task and gets on with it. You can list your rules, and delete them by name. There's no canvas of boxes and arrows. The bit that makes it actually usable: fuzzy conditions Most automation tools fall apart at the condition. You want "invoices from suppliers", but the tool only offers "subject line contains", so you end up writing a brittle keyword filter that misses half of them and fires on a newsletter. Vorker evaluates the condition with a language model instead of a string match. Which means your rule can be about as vague as you'd be with a colleague: "only invoices from suppliers" "only emails that actually need a reply from me" "only client calls, not internal ones" It reads each event and makes a judgement, roughly the way a competent assistant would. That's the difference between an automation you set up once and an automation you keep fighting. Recurring work you can talk to Event-driven rules cover the "when something happens" half. The other half is work that just needs doing on a rhythm: Monday reports, month-end reconciliation, a quarterly check-in nudge. You can now ask Vorker to set up a recurring task, and here's the useful part, keep talking to that schedule afterwards. Each recurring task has its own conversation. You can: change what it does, by describing the change change how often it runs, daily, weekly or monthly give it an end date, or cap it at a number of runs hit run now if you don't want to wait for Monday Compare that to the usual experience of editing a scheduled job. Find the settings screen, decipher the cron expression, hope. Here you just say "actually, do this on Fridays too, and stop after the end of the quarter." Recurring tasks and automations live together on the Recurrent page, so there's one place to see everything Vorker is doing on its own. Nothing runs behind your back The obvious worry about an AI that acts unprompted is that it acts unprompted. So a few things are deliberately not automatic: When a rule wants to create a task, that goes through an approval first. You see what it intends to do before it does it. Approvals have their own page, with bulk approve and reject, so reviewing ten of them takes seconds rather than ten clicks each. If a scheduled task's approval fails, Vorker notifies you instead of failing silently. The goal was never an AI that surprises you. It's an AI where the boring 90% happens without you, and you keep the final say on anything that touches the outside world. Why this is the feature that matters Small businesses don't lose time to hard problems. They lose it to a hundred small, obvious, low-judgement tasks that only got done because a human happened to be available: filing the invoice, chasing the quote, posting the update, writing the Monday summary. Every one of those is a rule. And a rule is something you set up once. The pitch for Vorker has always been that you operate like a bigger team without hiring. Triggers are what make that literal, because the defining feature of a bigger team isn't that they're smarter. It's that things get handled while you're doing something else. Getting started Rules today fire off Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar and Stripe, which between them cover most of what actually interrupts a small business. Recurring tasks work on their own schedule and don't need a connected trigger at all. Connect an account, then describe your first rule in a sentence. Vorker is in beta and free to try at vorker.ai.