Why teams switch: From Zapier to Olsa

We talk to every team that migrates to Olsa, and the story is remarkably consistent. Nobody leaves their first automation tool because it failed — they leave because they outgrew it. Here is where the ceiling tends to show up.

The trigger-action ceiling

Simple trigger-action pairs are a brilliant on-ramp and a hard ceiling. Real processes wait, branch, retry, and ask humans questions. When a workflow needs state — an approval that expires, a retry with backoff — teams end up simulating it with spreadsheets of glue zaps that nobody dares touch.

Visibility at volume

At a few hundred runs a month, a run history list is fine. At a few hundred thousand, you need fleet-level observability: which workflows are degrading, which integrations are slow, what an agent decided and why. That is the gap enterprises feel first.

Cost that scales with success

Per-task pricing means your bill grows fastest exactly when automation is working. Olsa prices by workflow, not by execution, so the incentive points the right way: automate more.

Migrating without a rewrite

Our migration tooling imports existing automations as canvas drafts, flags the ones that need real state, and runs old and new side by side until you cut over. Most teams move their core workflows in a week — and keep the simple ones wherever they already live.