Field Notes Vol. 5-2025
🤖 ✨ May brought the future to MESA! We’re thrilled to introduce Yedric, your new AI assistant that’s about to transform how you build workflows. Plus, we’ve supercharged the entire platform with AI-powered suggestions and smarter automation tools that’ll have you wondering how you ever worked without them.
Ready to see what’s possible when AI meets automation? Let’s dive in:
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đź’¬ Meet Yedric

Yedric is a new AI assistant, built to guide you with helpful prompts, recommend powerful MCP skills, and get you building faster by showing what’s possible.
Try these MCP skills:
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get-google-calendar-events-mcp
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mcp-tag-a-customer-in-mantle
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mcp-retrieve-mantle-customers
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find-social-media-accounts-email-address
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shopify-order-tagging-ai-assistant
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shopify-order-tagging-assistant
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fast-entry-google-sheets-using-ai
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retrieve-helpscout-conversations
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mcp-retrieve-shopify-customers
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mcp-shopify-retrieve-orders
Make your own skills for Yedric by building a workflow using the MCP trigger!
đź§ Add Yedric into any workflow
Yedric can also be added to any workflow using the Ask step. It’s a simple way to drop in, ask questions, and get a response mid-workflow. Use Ask for things like a weekly calendar summary or analyze support responses for reporting product issues.

🤖 Improvement: AI step suggestions
We added AI step suggestions in the workflow builder to help build faster and with less guesswork. When creating a new automation, you’ll now be asked to “Describe your workflow” so AI has more context to help suggest the next step of your workflow.

🎵 Playlist: Fleming hot takes
Take a spin through the sonic sketchbook of our resident design wizard, Matthew Fleming. This playlist is packed with the tracks powering his creativity, from first sketch to final polish. Hit play and vibe out!