Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Mastering Tools like Make and Zapier

Mastering Tools like Make and Zapier
Unlock efficiency and reduce costs by mastering Make and Zapier to build tailored tech stacks and streamline your business operations.

This should really mention that tools like Make and Zapier are critical to making all this work.

“That jargon translates to giving businesses the ability to free themselves from a monolithic architecture to create tech stacks, applications, and services that are specifically designed to their needs. It vastly reduces costs, speeds up development, and is incredibly flexible."—Forget gen AI for now: these are the martech trends you really need to know about - Tech.eu


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