Make.com expands with Maia AI assistant and template marketplace
Make launched the Maia assistant, Make Agents, and Make Grid for automation governance, plus a marketplace with over 8,000 ready-to-use templates.
Maia and Make Agents
Make introduced Maia, an AI assistant built into the platform, and Make AI Agents, aimed at autonomous task execution within automation scenarios, in 2026.
Governance at scale
For companies running many automations in parallel, Make launched Make Grid, aimed at enterprise-wide automation governance, along with a scenario-optimization feature that analyzes existing flows and suggests consolidation or module swaps when a build is unnecessarily complex.
Template marketplace
By June 2026, Make had also expanded its marketplace of ready-to-deploy automation templates, which now exceeds 8,000 templates covering common business cases without requiring builds from scratch.
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