> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.workmore.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What starts your process

> Triggers — the answer to 'when should this happen?'

Every process you run has a moment it begins. "Every Monday morning." "Whenever
a new form comes in." "When I decide to run it." In Workmore, that beginning is a
**trigger** — always the first step of a process.

You don't pick a trigger because the tool needs one; you pick it because your work
already has a starting point. Naming that starting point is usually the first
thing you figure out when you map a process.

## The kinds you'll reach for

* **On a schedule** — "every Monday at 9am," "the first of the month." Use this
  when time is what kicks off the work.
* **On demand** — you run it yourself when you need it. Good while you're still
  shaping a process, or for work that doesn't happen on a fixed clock.
* **When something arrives** — an external system sends word (a new form
  submission, a new signup). Use this when the work starts because *something
  happened* somewhere else.

## How to choose

Ask yourself how you'd finish this sentence: *"This work starts whenever…"*

* "…it's a certain day or time" → a scheduled trigger.
* "…I decide to do it" → an on-demand trigger.
* "…X happens in another tool" → an arrival trigger.

Once the trigger is in place, everything else hangs off it: the steps that do the
actual work, in order. The [Quickstart](/quickstart) walks through that end to end.