Pneumatic
Open-source AI workflow automation with editable templates, human checkpoints, and private deployment options.
About Pneumatic
Pneumatic is an open-source workflow platform for teams that want to run repeatable business processes with AI assistance and human oversight. Teams create workflow templates that define inputs, steps, assignees, deadlines, conditions, and required outputs, then launch and track multiple workflow instances from those templates. An AI-powered builder can generate a starting workflow from a plain-language description, while the no-code template builder supports later refinement. The product fits operational work such as compliance review, invoice processing, employee onboarding, and incident response, where automation must still leave defined approval points for people. Pneumatic can be used as a managed cloud service, and custom enterprise projects can run on-premise or in a private cloud. The free plan includes unlimited users, workflows, and tasks, API-based self-service integrations, community support through GitHub, and access to the open-source codebase. Organizations needing implementation, private infrastructure, custom integrations or LLM connections, identity management, staged environments, contractual terms, and dedicated support can request a custom enterprise engagement.
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Best use cases
A compliance workflow extracts clauses from long documents, flags risk indicators, and routes the result to an officer for approval or escalation.
An accounts-payable process matches invoice line items to purchase orders and sends only discrepancies to a finance manager for review.
An onboarding process assigns coordinated access, equipment, and training tasks to several departments while preserving manager sign-off.
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The Free plan removes per-user and workflow caps, which suits broad participation better than tools whose costs rise with every seat.
Pneumatic combines AI-generated workflow drafts with editable templates and human checkpoints rather than treating AI output as the final action.
Custom enterprise work adds private deployment, implementation, identity controls, and dedicated support beyond the managed self-service Free plan.
Features
Compliance review
Route extracted clauses and risk indicators to a compliance officer for approval, escalation, and an auditable process trail.
Invoice processing
Match invoice data against purchase orders or contracts and direct discrepancies to finance reviewers.
Employee onboarding
Coordinate access, equipment, and training tasks across departments with explicit manager sign-off.
Incident response
Draft a response playbook from alerts and prior knowledge for an on-call engineer to review and execute.
Pros
- The $0 Free plan includes unlimited users, workflows, and tasks, avoiding per-seat and usage-cap pressure for broad participation.
- Editable templates, conditional steps, assignees, deadlines, and human approvals support structured operational processes instead of isolated AI outputs.
- Open-source code and custom on-premise or private-cloud deployment give enterprise teams options for infrastructure and data control.
Cons
- On-premise and private-cloud deployment are part of a custom enterprise engagement rather than the self-service Free plan.
- Dedicated implementation, enterprise SLA coverage, identity management, and custom agreements require a project discussion instead of instant checkout.
- Self-service integrations on the Free plan rely on the API, which can add technical work for teams without integration engineering capacity.
Pricing Plans
Free
- Unlimited users and workflows
- No usage caps on workflows or tasks
- Cloud hosting managed by Pneumatic
- Self-service integrations through the API
- Community support through GitHub
- Access to the open-source codebase
Enterprise AI Workflow Solutions
- Professional implementation team
- AI-assisted deep customization
- On-premise or private-cloud deployment
- Custom integrations and LLM connectivity
- Enterprise SLA and dedicated support
- Private code branch and staged environments
- Enterprise security and identity management
- Backup and disaster recovery
- Custom NDA, BAA, SLA, and DPA agreements
* Pricing information is for reference only. Please refer to the latest announcement on Pneumatic's official website.