Happy September! Here's where you'll find Tray this month.
Sept 14-15: Gartner App Innovation Summit UK
Sept 15: Chicago meetup on automation, MCP, and vibe coding
Sept 23: Webinar on outgrowing n8n
Details: https://t.co/HKvpRItQIV
Make building with AI too hard, and people don’t stop. They go shadow.
The fix isn’t less governance. It’s governance that runs automatically.
5 must-haves for governing AI-built apps, plus a live demo from localhost to production: https://t.co/4I5KXWoUsh
Your GTM team can build an app in an afternoon. It's destined to break becuase something like a CRM field was renamed, or a credential belongs to a person that just left.
Our new guide follows one lead routing app from build day to handover: https://t.co/Sn0bFos1N1
n8n is good at what it’s for. Open source, self-hosted, fast for a technical team that wants its own infrastructure.
Production asks different questions. Who’s patching it. Who you call at midnight. Where the access trail is.
Five signs you’ve outgrown it. 👇
Your model provider changes a default and your product answers differently on Tuesday than it did Monday. You find out from a support ticket.
Our Field CTO moves a care navigation agent onto a model he hosts himself, with his own masking in front.
🔗 https://t.co/lPyoF3CfyF
We’re hiring! Come join a team where “blow the bloody doors off” is an actual written-down company value, and people mean it.
Open roles:
🔸 Account Executive
🔸 Sales Engineer
🔸 Senior Sales Engineer
More info here: https://t.co/ym2YCdtUJn
Gartner expects custom apps built on AI-native development platforms to make up 40% of enterprise application portfolios by 2030. In 2025 it was 2%.
Those apps are being built now. Security teams find out about most of them later.
https://t.co/dp0NPBkyuP
We asked Clay Vickers, Associate Director of Ad Operations at @voxmedia, what he's built on Tray that he couldn't have built anywhere else. His answer. 👇
“Little drops of determinism.”
That’s how @jwpepper describes what they keep adding to their agents. One order number, three systems it could live in, and a workflow small enough to be boring.
Your team is building their own apps now, and they are bringing them to you to sign off.
Eleven questions to ask of every app before it goes live.
The reasoning behind each one --> https://t.co/4zlEBsMpV7
Ask a CIO how many agents are running in their company. You won’t get a confident number.
Gartner expects an 80% rollback of autonomous AI deployments by 2027 because of it.
Agents in Helix ship with the app, so IT sees them on day one.
https://t.co/QNcQZtuzD0
Cancel the subscription. Cancel the implementation fees. Cancel the admin time. Finance will like that math.
Then somebody has to run what you built. Sign-in, permissions, a record of what happened, a named owner.
So where do you start?
https://t.co/RT9MuhxAol
Building an internal app is the easy part. Getting people to use it is the hard part, and AI means more people are learning that.
New in Tray Helix: App Library + agents that ship inside the apps they serve.
Plus a live build session on Oct 28! https://t.co/5Vhg4q5LJU
2,500+ Slack channels at @Life360 led to an agent problem.
Single-purpose bots left people unsure which one to ping. One do-everything agent got slow and shallow. Both ended with employees pinging IT anyway.
Here's what they did about it: https://t.co/xpVWDVF3K6
Most good internal ideas stay ideas. The ones that survive become a script on somebody’s machine that nobody can see or maintain.
A GTM systems engineer at @AbridgeHQ found a third option.
Full story: https://t.co/3zNOzZMe26