Relay.app Is Shutting Down: How to Migrate Your Workflows to Relato
Relay.app is winding down, free accounts on August 15 and paid on September 14, 2026. Here is what is happening, what it means for your workflows, and how to move them to Relato without losing the approvals and automations your team relies on.
If you run automations on Relay.app, you have a deadline now.
Relay is winding down. Free accounts stop on August 15, 2026 at 23:59 PT, and paid accounts continue through September 14, 2026 at 23:59 PT. Paid customers get 60 days of continued usage plus AI credits, pro-rated refunds on annual plans, and an export tool that hands back your workflows, run history, and tables.
That is a fair wind-down. It still leaves you with a job to do: the automations your team leaned on every day need a new home, and the clock is running. This guide covers what is happening, what to move first, and how to rebuild your workflows on Relato so the approvals and integrations you depend on keep working.
What is actually happening to Relay
Relay.app was an AI-powered automation platform. You built multi-step workflows that connected your tools, ran AI steps like extraction and drafting in the middle of a process, and paused for a human to approve before something important fired.
Here is the timeline you are working against:
- August 15, 2026, 23:59 PT: free accounts stop.
- September 14, 2026, 23:59 PT: paid accounts stop, after 60 days of continued usage and AI credits.
- Annual plans get pro-rated refunds.
- An export tool returns your workflows, run history, and tables.
The single most useful thing you can do this week is run that export while your account is healthy. Exports and support queues get slower as a shutdown deadline approaches, so pull your data early and keep it somewhere safe.
Why Relato is a natural home for Relay workflows
Relato is an AI-agent platform in the same category as Relay, so the mental model carries over. The pieces you built in Relay map onto Relato directly:
- Multi-step AI workflows. Chain triggers, actions, and AI steps into one flow, the same way you did in Relay.
- Human-in-the-loop approvals. Keep a checkpoint before anything irreversible runs. This is usually the part teams worry about most in a migration, and Relato treats it as a first-class feature.
- AI steps inside the flow. Extract, summarize, classify, and draft as part of a workflow, with the model doing the grunt work and a person owning the decision.
- The integrations your work already touches. Connect the tools your automations run against, with native Google Workspace support, web research, and an open API for anything custom.
Where Relato goes further is scope. Relay was a strong standalone automation tool. Relato puts those automations inside a full work platform, so the projects, tasks, and review steps around an automation live next to the automation itself. For most teams that means one place instead of an automation tool plus three other apps to track the work it feeds.
Relay.app and Relato at a glance
| Capability | Relay.app | Relato |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-step AI workflows | Yes | Yes |
| Human-in-the-loop approvals | Yes | Yes, first-class |
| AI steps (extract, summarize, draft, classify) | Yes | Yes |
| Connects to your existing tools | Yes | Yes, plus native Google Workspace, web, and open API |
| Projects, tasks, and review workflows in one platform | No | Yes |
| Managed migration help | Not applicable | Free rebuild of your top workflows |
| Status | Winding down (Aug 15 / Sep 14, 2026) | Actively developed |
How to migrate, step by step
You can do this yourself, or we can do the heavy part for you. Either way the shape is the same.
- Export from Relay now. Use Relay’s export tool to pull your workflows, run history, and tables while your account is active. Do not leave this to the final week.
- List your workflows by how much they matter. You almost certainly do not need to rebuild all of them. Rank by how often each runs and how much breaks if it stops. Move the top handful first.
- Rebuild each flow as a Relato agent. Recreate the trigger, the AI steps, the integrations, and the approval checkpoints. Because the model is the same, this is a translation rather than a redesign.
- Verify against your old runs. Run a couple of real inputs through the new flow and check the output against what Relay produced. Your exported run history is the reference.
- Switch it live before your window closes. Once a flow matches, point your team at the Relato version and retire the Relay one. Repeat down your priority list until you are fully moved.
The faster path: let us rebuild your workflows
If you would rather not rebuild by hand under a deadline, we will do it. Send us your Relay export and we will reconstruct your top workflows on Relato, approvals and all, so nothing your team relies on breaks when Relay goes dark. There is no cost to the migration and no contract to start.
The window is real, but it is not tight if you start now. Export this week, move your most important flows first, and you will be running on a platform that is here for the long term well before September.
Relay is winding down. Your workflows do not have to.
Export from Relay, and we will rebuild your top automations on Relato for free, approvals and integrations included. Start today and be fully migrated before your window closes.