Get your first Heym workflow running in minutes.
Do not have Heym running yet? See Running & Deployment, or follow the video walkthrough: Set Up Heym Locally in Under 2 Minutes.
1. Create a Workflow
- Go to the Workflows tab
- Click New Workflow
- Name your workflow (e.g. "Hello World")
2. Add Nodes
- Open the Nodes panel on the left
- Drag an Input node onto the canvas
- Drag an LLM node and connect it to the Input
- Drag an Output node and connect it to the LLM
[Input] --> [LLM] --> [Output]See Node Types for all available nodes.
3. Configure
- Input: Set a default value or leave empty for user input (see Input Node)
- LLM: Select a credential and model, add a system instruction, and set
userMessageto$input.text(see LLM Node) - Output: Set
messageto$llm.textto pass through the LLM response (see Output Node)
Use Expression DSL syntax for $input.text and $llm.text. Click the expand button on expression fields for the Expression Evaluation Dialog with live backend preview.
4. Run
Click Run, press Ctrl + Enter, or use the debug panel to execute. The workflow runs from the Input node through connected nodes to the Output. See Triggers for other ways to run workflows (webhook, portal, cron, etc.).
View past runs in History (toolbar) and use Bring to Canvas to re-run with the same inputs.
On Docs, Evals, and other non-canvas internal pages, you can also use the Quick Drawer to pick a pinned workflow and run it without going back to the editor.
If you are reading the docs and want clarification before building, open Chat with Docs from the Docs header to ask page-aware questions.
Alternatively, use the AI Assistant from the Debug panel to create workflows with natural language—describe what you want and the AI generates nodes and edges.
Already building automations in another tool? Migrate to Heym converts an n8n, Flowise, Dify, Langflow, sim.ai, or Activepieces workflow into a Heym workflow you can import.
Related
- Core Concepts – Workflows, nodes, and execution flow
- Migrate to Heym – Convert n8n, Flowise, Dify, Langflow, sim.ai, or Activepieces workflows to Heym with AI
- Running & Deployment – Start locally with
run.shor deploy withdeploy.sh - Environment Variables – Full configuration reference
- Settings – Configure name, User Rules, and password
- Canvas Features – Data pin, execution logs, enable/disable, extract to sub-workflow
- Keyboard Shortcuts – Canvas and editor shortcuts
- Expression DSL – Referencing data in node config
- Expression Evaluation Dialog – Expandable editor with live backend preview
- Triggers – All workflow entry points (webhook, portal, cron, etc.)
- Execution History – View past runs and Bring to Canvas
- Quick Drawer – Run pinned workflows from non-canvas pages
- Chat with Docs – Ask contextual questions from the docs header
- Workflows Tab – Create and manage workflows
- Credentials Tab – Add API keys for LLM nodes
- AI Assistant – Create workflows with natural language