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Automate Cohere

Cohere's models are a good fit for sorting and condensing text: labelling incoming messages, spotting bug reports among support requests, and shrinking long posts into a short note. Connect your own Cohere key and the work happens as soon as text arrives. Ask your AI assistant for what you need, check what it plans to do, and it keeps going after that.

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Try asking

Create a ClickRuntime automation: give me a link my support form can post to. Summarise each message in two sentences with Cohere and post it to #support in Slack.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in Cohere

Incoming text summarised into Slack, and messages sorted into your own labels with an email when one needs attention. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
The moment it happens

Summarise posted messages into Slack

Long messages sent to your link show up in Slack as a two-line summary.

See how it works
The moment it happens

Sort incoming messages and flag bugs

Every message gets a label, and you hear about bug reports by email straight away.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Cohere, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Cohere automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Cohere should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Every day, use Cohere to rerank our help articles against this week's top questions and tell me which questions have no good match.

When a new row is added to my Google Sheet, use Cohere to classify the feedback into a category column.

When an Intercom conversation closes, use Cohere to embed it, find similar past ones in Airtable and post the pattern in Slack.

Beyond chat

Have Cohere work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Cohere to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect Cohere

Your Cohere dashboard already has a trial key. For anything beyond testing, add billing and create a production key.

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  1. Open dashboard.cohere.com and go to API Keys.
  2. Copy the trial key that was created for you, or add billing and click New Production Key.
  3. Paste the key into the ClickRuntime dashboard under Connections & secrets, saved as a secret.

Good to know

Cohere limits that affect automations

  • Trial keys have a monthly call cap and per-minute limits, so they suit testing rather than steady traffic.
  • Production keys only become available after you add billing to your Cohere account.
  • Each run of a summarise or classify automation uses at least one call, so a busy link will use up a trial key quickly.

FAQ

Questions about automating Cohere

Is a trial key enough?
For testing, yes. Trial keys have a monthly cap on calls, so switch to a production key before you point a busy form or inbox at an automation.
Can I use my own labels?
Yes. Tell your assistant the labels, such as bug, billing and other, with a few examples of each, and every message is sorted into one of them.
Do I need Cohere at all?
Not for most text jobs. AI comes with every ClickRuntime plan and doesn't need a key. Use Cohere when you prefer its models or already pay for it.
How does text reach the automation?
ClickRuntime gives you a link. Your form, script or tool posts text to it, and the automation runs straight away.
Is this a Cohere connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Cohere data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Cohere while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Cohere event.

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