PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Escalate stale Trello cards to Slack by age tier

Scans a Trello board daily for cards with no activity past their age thresholds and posts tiered escalation alerts to Slack.

CategoryProject Management
Enginesim
Difficultybeginner
Triggerschedule
Steps5
Setup~5 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerDaily schedule fires
  • ActionFetch open cards + last activity from boardTrelloTrello
  • LogicBucket cards into warning / stale / critical tiers
  • ActionResolve assigned member namesTrelloTrello
  • OutputPost tiered escalation digest to channelSlack

What it does

Every morning this workflow inspects each open card on a chosen Trello board, calculates how many days have passed since its last activity, and sorts cards into warning, stale, and critical tiers. It then posts a single grouped digest to Slack so the team sees exactly which cards are slipping and who owns them.

When to use it

Run it when work-in-progress quietly stalls and nobody notices until a deadline slips. It is ideal for delivery teams that live in Slack and want a gentle daily nudge instead of manually auditing the board.

How it works

  1. 1A daily schedule fires the run at a fixed local time.
  2. 2The workflow pulls all open cards and their last-activity timestamps from the Trello board.
  3. 3A logic step buckets each card into warning (3+ days idle), stale (7+), or critical (14+) and drops anything fresh.
  4. 4It looks up the assigned member name for each flagged card via Trello.
  5. 5A formatted digest is posted to the team channel in Slack, grouped by tier with @-mentions for owners.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect TrelloKanban boards for everything.
  2. 2
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  3. 3
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  4. 4
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  5. 5
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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