Lean teams are expected to keep critical work moving with limited time, headcount, and budget. Whether you’re responding to incidents, managing user access, or keeping systems connected behind the scenes, the reality is the same: keeping processes moving reliably is harder than it should be when resources are stretched thin.
That’s why we’re introducing Tines Starter Edition, a new Tines plan for smaller organizations to begin building intelligent workflows that scale as you grow.
The reality for lean teams today
Despite rising operational and security expectations, fewer than one in five SMBs rate their current cybersecurity capabilities as effective, even though you face many of the same demands as much larger organizations. At the same time, approximately 3 in 4 executives report that the frequency of IT failures is increasing each year. Compounding the issue, lean security and IT teams still spend 44% of their time on manual or repetitive work that could be automated. This would be equivalent to roughly 3.5 hours in an 8-hour workday, if distributed daily.
In practice, this creates hidden risk. Critical processes depend on brittle connections, undocumented logic, and significant manual effort. It becomes hard to see how work actually runs or spot issues before they escalate. When tools change or activity spikes, failures surface suddenly — often when you can least afford them.
You’re forced to make tradeoffs:
Write scripts for flexibility, but take on ongoing maintenance and increased risk
Adopt point solutions for specific problems, but struggle to connect across systems
Turn to hobbyist AI and automation tools that promise a lot, but expose workflows to security and reliability risks
Rely on rigid integrations to move data, but force processes to adapt to a tool
Each option solves part of the problem, but none are designed to support intelligent, end-to-end workflows as needs, tools, and volume change. Ultimately you need workflows that reduce fragility, provide visibility, and scale as tools and workflow needs evolve.
A better path forward
At our core, Tines is built on the belief that all teams deserve access to intelligent workflows.
Instead of isolated automation or agents, intelligent workflows interact across systems, tools, and people. They combine automation, integration, AI, and human decision points into a single flow. This makes it possible to build dependable workflows in operational environments.
Until now, access to solutions of this scale required multiple vendors or enterprise-scale contracts from day 1. Starter Edition offers an accessible place to begin.
Introducing Starter Edition
Starter Edition brings intelligent workflows within reach for small businesses. You can start making real operational impact with AI and automation in minutes.
With Starter Edition, you can:
Build and run workflows collaboratively that hold up under operational conditions
Connect any tool with an API, without forcing processes into rigid templates
Interact with AI, from agents to MCP servers, with Tines as your AI interaction layer.
Move beyond one-off scripts to workflows designed to evolve over time
Prove value quickly, then expand usage as needs grow
Built to scale with you
Starter Edition is designed to support you as you move from building initial core workflows to robust organization-wide intelligent workflows. It gives you a strong foundation where AI agents, deterministic logic, and human judgement work together to power your most important jobs.
As workflow volume increases, responsibilities grow, and new use cases emerge, it’s easy to grow with Tines. What you build today remains part of how work runs tomorrow.
What will you build?
Customers like you use Tines to build automations, agents, MCP servers, apps, and integrations every day. They are creating bridges between their teams, systems, and processes with intelligent workflows as the glue. Explore Tines pricing to find the plan that’s right for your team and start building workflows that are ready to support real work and real results.