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Adalo

Adalo

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Build custom no-code apps and automate your data collections

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Adalo is a no-code app builder that lets founders, business owners, and teams create custom mobile and web applications without writing a single line of code. At its core is the Collections API — a structured data layer that Actionist agents can read from and write to, so you can trigger workflows when new records appear, update records from other tools, and sync app data across your entire stack. Connect Adalo to Actionist and your agents can manage records in any of your app's collections, react to new and updated entries within about a minute, and keep your custom-built app's data in step with the rest of your business.

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Average time saved
7 hours
per person · per month
≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate manual record entry, data exports, and collection audits that teams running custom Adalo apps perform every week by hand.

Schedule

What your Adalo agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

28Scheduled jobs
7Agents at work
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Multi-app workflows

Adalo × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
6Apps spanned
~20 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For sales
Featured4 apps

New lead from website form into Adalo CRM app

Every web lead lands in the Adalo CRM app's Contacts collection within about a minute of form submission, deduplicated, and synced to HubSpot. The sales team sees new leads in the app and in Slack simultaneously without a manual import step.

~8 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When a lead submits a contact form on the marketing website
Trigger
Step 1
Google Sheets
Detect new row in lead intake sheet from form submission
read
Step 2
Adalo
Search Records to check if a Contact record already exists for this email
write
Step 3
Adalo
Create Record in the Contacts collection with name, email, source, and date
write
Step 4
HubSpot
Create matching HubSpot contact for the sales team pipeline
write
Step 5
Slack
Post new-lead notification to #sales with Adalo CRM link
Result
Create Record in the Contacts collection with name, email, source, and dateCreate matching HubSpot contact for the sales team pipelinePost new-lead notification to #sales with Adalo CRM link
The win
Saved per run
15 min
Runs / week
~30×
Zero leads fall through the gap between the website and the in-app CRM
Driven bySales Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    45 min / week
    Manual CRM data entry into the Adalo app

    Sales reps switch between the marketing website, their external CRM, and the Adalo app to copy lead data across by hand — 10+ minutes per new lead, high risk of missed entries.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent syncs leads into Adalo CRM collection on arrival

    When a lead form is submitted anywhere, the agent deduplicates and creates the Contact record in Adalo within about a minute — the CRM app is current before the rep checks their messages.

  • Marketing
    30 min / week
    Manual event record creation for each campaign

    Every time a campaign is launched, the marketing team manually creates the matching Event and Assets records in the Adalo campaign-management app — 20 minutes of data entry per campaign.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent creates Adalo records when campaign calendar events are added

    When a campaign is added to the marketing calendar, the agent creates the Event and Assets records in Adalo automatically — the in-app data layer is ready before the first team briefing.

  • Customer Support
    60 min / week
    Manual ticket triage from in-app submissions

    Support leads check the Adalo app for new ticket records, manually classify the issue, assign it in the project tracker, and notify the relevant team — 10 minutes per ticket during peak hours.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent routes and acknowledges tickets from Adalo trigger

    Within about a minute of a new Ticket record appearing in Adalo, the agent classifies, routes, notifies, and logs the ticket — the support team sees it in Slack before they open the app.

  • Human Resources
    20 min / week
    Manual user record management in Adalo app

    HR manually creates a User record in the Adalo internal-tools app for each new hire and deletes it on offboarding — two more admin steps in an already-long checklist.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent creates and deletes Adalo records as part of the HR workflow

    New-hire onboarding and offboarding in the HRIS automatically trigger Create Record and Delete Record actions in Adalo — app access is managed without a separate HR step.

  • Finance
    45 min / week
    Weekly manual export of Adalo subscription data

    The finance team exports subscription records from the Adalo app to a spreadsheet every Friday, filters for overdue accounts manually, and updates the AR tracker — 45 minutes of repetitive data work.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent queries Adalo subscriptions and flags overdue accounts automatically

    Every Friday the agent searches the Adalo Subscriptions collection for overdue records, flags them in HubSpot, and updates the dunning status — the AR tracker is ready before the finance review starts.

  • Operations
    60 min / week
    Manual weekly data-quality audit of Adalo collections

    Ops opens the Adalo editor weekly, exports each collection, checks for duplicates and blank required fields in a spreadsheet, then manually deletes bad records — 60+ minutes per week.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent runs schema and data-quality sweep automatically every Monday

    Every Monday the operations agent audits all Adalo collections, removes duplicates, and posts a data-health digest to Slack — the collections are clean before anyone arrives at their desk.

  • Legal
    20 min / week
    Manual compliance review of Adalo collection schemas

    The legal team periodically asks engineering to export the Adalo collection schemas for review, checks field names manually against the approved data model, and logs findings by hand.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent audits collection schemas and data retention on a schedule

    Weekly the legal agent fetches all collection schemas, flags unapproved fields, and deletes records (or entire collections) past the retention date — the compliance log is updated automatically.

+ 100s of other Adalo automations
Average time saved
28 hrs / person / month
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Calculate what your team saves

Team size
5 people
Hourly rate
$75 / hr
Hours saved / week
9
Hours saved / year
450
Annual ROI
$33,750

Based on Adalo's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~1.8 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug Adalo into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Connect Actionist to Adalo using your app's API key and App ID. Any agent you assign can then read and write records in your Adalo collections.

1
Open your Adalo app settings

Log in to Adalo, open your app, and go to Settings → App Access. Copy the API key shown there.

2
Copy your App ID

Your App ID appears in the URL bar when you have the app open: adalo.com/apps/<APP_ID>. Copy it.

3
Paste into Actionist

Paste the API key and App ID into the fields below and click Test connection. Actionist will verify access by fetching your collections list.

Credentials you'll need
API key*
Adalo dashboard → Your App → Settings → App Access → API key
App ID*
Found in your Adalo app URL: adalo.com/apps/<APP_ID>
Actions

12 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

2 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

FAQs

Questions about Adalo + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to my Adalo app?
Actionist connects via Adalo's Collections API using two credentials: your app's API key and your App ID. Find the API key in your Adalo dashboard under Settings → App Access, and the App ID in the URL when you have the app open (adalo.com/apps/<APP_ID>). Paste both into the Actionist connection fields and click Test — Actionist fetches your collections list to verify the handshake. Each Adalo app is a separate connection, so if you have multiple apps you'll connect each independently.
Which Adalo plan do I need to use the API with Actionist?
Adalo's Collections API (the standard read/write/delete on records) is available on Professional and higher plans. The free and Starter plans do not include API access. If you're on a plan without API access, you'll see a 401 error when Actionist tries to test the connection. Custom Actions (calling external APIs from within the Adalo app itself) also require Professional or above — these are distinct from Actionist's agent-to-Adalo connection.
Can Actionist trigger a workflow when a user does something inside my Adalo app?
Yes, via the New Record and Updated Record triggers. When a user submits a form, taps a button that writes to a collection, or otherwise creates or modifies a record in your Adalo app, Actionist detects the change within about a minute and fires the downstream workflow. The trigger fires on any write to the watched collection — from the app UI, from external API calls, or from other Actionist actions. There is no true push webhook from Adalo; Actionist polls your collection on a short cadence.
Can I filter which records Actionist acts on, or does it process every record?
You can filter using the Search Records action, which accepts a field name and value to match before processing. The New Record and Updated Record triggers fire on all writes to the watched collection, but you can add a conditional step immediately after the trigger to check a field value and exit the workflow if the record doesn't meet your criteria. Adalo's API supports filtering on single-value properties (Text, Number, Boolean, Date) but not on relationship arrays.
Does Actionist support multiple Adalo apps and collections?
Yes. Each Adalo app is its own connection in Actionist (since each app has its own API key and App ID). Once connected, you can target any collection within that app in your agent tasks. A single Actionist workflow can read from one Adalo app's collection and write to another — for example, reading Users from your customer app and creating records in a separate internal-tools app. You manage each app connection independently in the Apps tab.
Can Actionist create or delete entire Adalo collections, not just records?
Yes. The Create Collection, Update Collection, and Delete Collection actions let Actionist manage the data structure of your Adalo app, not just its records. This is useful for programmatic workspace setup (creating a collection per client or per project), automated schema audits (Get All Collections, Get Collection), and data-retention compliance (Delete Collection when a client's retention period expires). Use Delete Collection with care — it permanently removes all records in that collection with no undo.
What happens if an Adalo record ID changes or a record is deleted between workflow steps?
If a record is deleted between the trigger and a downstream Get Record or Update Record step, Actionist will surface a 404 error from the Adalo API and the workflow step will fail. You can handle this by adding error-catching logic in your workflow — either a fallback path or a notification to the team. Record IDs in Adalo are stable and do not change once assigned; they only become invalid on deletion. For workflows that operate on IDs fetched in the same run (e.g., Search → Update), the ID is always fresh.
Can Actionist sync data between Adalo and external databases or spreadsheets on a schedule?
Yes, and this is one of the most common uses. Use a scheduled agent task to run Get Many Records from an Adalo collection and write the results to Google Sheets, a Postgres table, or another data store on a daily or weekly cadence. The reverse works too: read from a spreadsheet and call Bulk Create Records or loop through individual Create Record calls to push data into Adalo. Scheduled syncs keep your Adalo app's data in step with external systems without a manual export.