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Creating AI Agents with Make.com

Apr 28, 2025

Building AI Agents with Make.com

Overview

  • Introduction to building AI agents with Make.com
  • Comparison of Make.com AI agents with NA10
  • Key features and use cases to transform businesses

Pricing

  • Pricing for Make.com AI agents remains unchanged
  • Users are responsible for API key costs for language model
  • No additional charge for using Make.com agents

Steps to Build AI Agents

Step 1: Determine Need

  • Decide if a task requires an AI agent or simple automation
    • Complex decision-making needed?
    • Does it coordinate multiple steps intelligently?
    • Requires memory or conversational context?
    • Needs to work across different platforms?
  • If mostly automation, proceed with automation; if agent, continue to step 2

Step 2: Create the AI Agent

  • Navigate to Make.com scenario
  • Create new agent with a specific model (e.g., GPT 4.1)
  • Connect with OpenAI API by setting up API key
  • Use ChatGPT to create a system prompt for the agent

Step 3: Choose a Trigger

  • Define what will initiate the AI agent
    • Examples: Telegram, web hooks, etc.
  • Set up a Telegram bot as a trigger

Step 4: Create Scenario with Agent

  • Involve creating connections to input and output
  • Define conversational settings (e.g., memory for context retention)

Step 5: Create Tools

  • Develop scenarios or tools for use with the agent
  • Each scenario is a potential tool (e.g., internet search, email draft creation)
  • Assign inputs and outputs for scenarios

Step 6: Add Tools to Agent

  • Add created tools to the AI agent
  • Ensure all scenarios are active and correctly configured

Step 7: Test and Review

  • Execute test scenarios to ensure proper operation
  • Configure agent settings like max output tokens and recursion limits

Tips and Insights

  • Make.com vs NA10: Make.com requires building a library of tools, while NA10 builds tools as needed
  • Make.com offers fewer transparency features about what the agent is doing compared to NA10
  • Make.com’s tool system operates with a central AI agent and auxiliary tool scenarios

Use Cases

  • AI agents can enhance customer experience, operations, sales, marketing, finance, compliance, and HR
  • Businesses can leverage AI for improved workflows and efficiency

Conclusion

  • Make.com AI agents provide powerful automation capabilities
  • Users should choose Make or NA10 based on specific needs such as transparency, ease of use, and existing infrastructure
  • Feedback from users is encouraged for further improvements

Additional Resources

  • PDF with more detailed instructions available in the video description
  • AI automation community findings and AI agent use cases shared