Ballet - Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API
Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API
Ballet is a workflow automation platform that lets your team describe an outcome in plain English—like lead routing, account surge detection, or order changes—and it builds the integration as reviewable, version-controlled code. It connects to any API, including your proprietary systems, and runs deterministically where accuracy matters, with agentic reasoning for flexible steps. Say goodbye to engineering backlogs and brittle visual graphs. Ballet is built by the team behind Brainfish and trusted by companies like Coassemble, Smokeball, and HireVue. Get started with a 30-minute working session to model your backlog workflow on your real systems.
Describe the outcome — lead routing, attribution, a renewal play — and Ballet builds it, runs it, keeps it working.
- bdcravens
"Built by the team behind Brainfish"
Perhaps I'm the wrong market for this project (despite much of my bread and butter being types of workflows) because I have no idea what Brainfish is.
- ArtTimeInvestor
I don't get what this is about.
The examples they show are someone typing something into a prompt and then some agent starts coding.
But the hard part in automation these days is not writing software. It is "how does the software get the credentials to access data and services? What APIs does it use?". So before being able to type a prompt and then use the software created, there must be the hard part: Setting up all those interconnectivity pieces. Making sure the software can access and change data, trigger actions, but only within a certain scope.
- krmmalik
As a non-coder I was obsessed with automation tools like Zapier when they first came out. After that, I tried very hard with n8n but just found it impossible to work with until I read some post by some developer that said "just do it in Python". Took me a while to really take that in given I can't code but then I got Claude to write some Python scripts automate some work spreadsheet and API work and I haven't looked back since.
I think something like this could have worked several years ago but now it's overkill.