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Why Attio beats other CRMs & the power of its API
0:00What is going on guys? I wanted to go
0:02over today how as a small business I
0:05wanted to empower our CRM to be the best
0:09version of itself. And disclaimer, I'm
0:12actually using the free version of this
0:15CRM. This CRM is Atio. It's probably one
0:17of the best CRM that I've used. And I've
0:21used HubSpot, Pipe Drive, Salesforce,
0:26um, Folk, uh, and Atoio for me really
0:28takes, uh, the top for a few different
Tech stack overview (Attio, PostHog, n8n)
0:31reasons, but one of the most important
0:32reasons why, and like everything that I
0:34ever do, the API is incredibly good and
0:37useful for getting data in and out of
0:39the system. And they're really
0:41innovating for like the future. And so,
0:43if you haven't used Atio, go check it
0:45out. It's almost like an air table on
0:47steroids is probably like the way I
0:48would describe it. And so it fits into
0:51the style in which I love to work. Um,
0:54but I wanted to go over today how I'm
0:56using it to centralize data in a way
0:59that I don't think many people are. And
1:02so if you're a if you run a product
1:04company or a tech company, I should say,
1:07you're probably using something like
1:09Post Hog or something similar. So what I
1:12have is I have our Post Hog set up to
1:14Atio. And you can do this by the way on
Connecting PostHog events to Attio on the free plan
1:16their free subscription as well. And I
1:19am basically connecting every single
1:21different element and different feature
1:23set straight into Atio. Um, which is
1:27then essentially giving me this entire
1:30overview where I can start to see um
1:32when they last logged in and then all of
1:35the different feature sets that they
1:36actually used throughout their kind of
1:39time in using us. But what no what only
1:42I've done there is I've then started to
1:45build off the back of this information
1:47i.e. the features that they've used and
1:49when they last logged in. Um,
1:51essentially like a risk status, right?
1:54And so you can see here we've got
1:56different risk risk statuses assigned to
1:59various different uh individuals based
2:03on the plan that they have with us. And
Creating dynamic risk statuses from last-login data
2:05to do this, I'm using uh NA10. And
2:08there's no agent actually involved in
2:09this one. This one is more of a kind of
2:12basic uh automation process.
2:15So what we're essentially uh doing here
2:19is we are first of all using this
2:22particular query which is going and
2:25finding any individual that is linked to
2:28a company where they're basically in a
2:30paid uh subscription um with us. And
2:35what it's going to do is it's going to
2:36find uh those people. And then what
2:39we're saying is is we're saying is okay
2:41from all of these people when did they
2:44last log in with us? Okay. And so what
2:49I'm basically looking at here is if we
2:52go back to Atio uh and back to the
2:55individuals, I'm then basically
2:58assigning a risk status based on their
3:00last login date. So was it under 10
3:02days? Was it between 10 to 10 to 20 days
3:05or is it 20 days plus? Essentially
3:08depending which bracket they fall into,
3:10they get assigned a various different
3:12risk status associated with that
3:14particular person. And so what this
3:16automation is then simply doing is it's
3:18getting the individuals via the
3:22um uh kind of company endpoint then
3:24getting all the people associated with
Building the automation in n8n (no agents needed)
3:26that company and then basically starting
3:28to break this whole thing down into like
3:30a greater analysis and then starting to
3:33update the actual risk status uh
3:36associated with that particular company
3:39as well. Now that's not the only thing
3:41that I have going on with Atio. So if we
3:44actually have a look, I have many
3:46different automations being built and
3:49run across Atio. Another really uh
3:53interesting one is I'm using um Atio to
3:58basically get all of the data from
4:02Postto. So if we come over here and
4:04we're looking at our people data, I can
4:07essentially hit this option here which
4:09is called run user research. And so if I
Live demo: “Run User Research” button pulls feature-usage stats
4:12trigger that, this is now going to send
4:14a web hook through to this particular
4:17automation, which is going to go and
4:19look up that user inside of Postgog and
4:22pull all of their information out. And
4:25so what this means by pulling their
4:26information out is I'm saying, okay,
4:27well, how often did they use these
4:29features? Um, and what this is then
4:32enables my team to do is this is then
4:35going to enable them to when they reach
4:38out to the teacher being like, "Hey, I
4:39can only see that you used social
4:41signals 15 times. I can only see that
4:43you use social engagement, for example,
4:45five times. Like, I really want you to
4:47think about this. I can see that you
4:48were really active of us 30 32 times.
4:50You logged in 32 times." And so it gives
4:53your CS team or whoever it is that
4:56instant insight into what's going on. So
4:59to do this I set up a web hook via R
5:01atio which um all that you need to do is
5:04go to the workspace settings um and then
Setting up webhooks in Attio for one-click look-ups
5:09you can use uh within developers you can
5:13set up your integration with NA10 and
5:15things like that. But I believe there is
5:18also somewhere in here um
5:24uh the ability to create web hooks.
5:27Let's search for
5:29it. Maybe it's not in settings. Maybe
5:32it's in
5:33here and go web
5:38hooks. Create a web hook. Here we go. So
5:41you can create the create the web hook
5:43uh programmatically um for you as well
5:46which is really cool. So what we're
5:48doing then is once we've assigned the
5:49web hook to a certain field inside of
5:51Atio, it triggers it and then what it's
5:54doing is it's sending information across
5:58on the individual and the user where
Next steps: turning Attio into a fully-fledged CS cockpit
6:00it's then basically going and getting
6:02that person from ATIO then going and
6:05deep diving into Postto and then
6:07basically looking up the different
6:09events that I want it to look up before
6:12then basically updating atio and sending
6:14that information back. That's just the
6:17start of what we're doing with Atio. I'm
6:19going to do another video going over a
6:21few more agents that I've actually built
6:23to enable my ATIO probably to be one of
6:26the most sophisticated
6:28uh and most upto-date uh system that is
6:32out there. Um, and it's totally free
6:35when I'm using