Is Zapier the right solution for automating our business processes?

​@OMAR LEARNS  One thing you can do to connect different systems is to save “state” in a central database like Supabase. When that state changes, it triggers webhooks that kick off automations in Zapier.
So the flow looks like this: one system calls Zapier, which transforms the data as needed, then saves it to Supabase — which triggers the next Zap. This is an event-driven pattern that can seem more complex at first, but it really pays off as your automations grow.
For example, I have a system that picks up emails. The first automation decides whether we should process it or not. If true, it saves it to the database with that status. This is helpful on its own since we now have a log of every email in the database that we can reprocess if anything goes wrong.
That database update triggers the next Zap, which extracts data from the email using an LLM and saves the results back to the database. That update triggers the next step, which talks to another API, does some work, and saves those results.
All of these database updates fire webhooks, and each Zap is listening for updates where the “step” and “status” columns match what that automation is waiting for.
It’s a superpower pattern because each automation can be tested independently based on the simple state of the data — and you know they’ll all hook together. Kind of like Lego bricks, versus having one massive automation that’s hard to debug.
Beyond orchestration, there’s another benefit here: all the systems you mentioned can stay the source of truth for their own data, but you can copy that data into Supabase using Zapier. From there you can build reports and other solutions around the aggregation of all that data in one place.