--- title: "Flows | API Visualization Tool | Postman API Platform" description: "Create complex solutions from API building blocks. Flows is a visual editor that lets you directly manipulate APIs and observe the data flowing between them." url: https://www.postman.com/product/flows/ --- # Flows | API Visualization Tool | Postman API Platform > Create complex solutions from API building blocks. Flows is a visual editor that lets you directly manipulate APIs and observe the data flowing between them. ## Flows See exactly how your APIs work together. [Browse Templates](/templates/flows/) --- ## Spend less time explaining and more time shipping ### Documentation your team can run Flows gives your team something they can inspect, execute, debug, and clone, not just read. ### Fast visual onboarding New developers can open a Flow, execute it against a staging environment, and observe exactly how data moves before they've touched a single line of code. ### APIs that are AI-ready Flows wraps your existing and legacy endpoints so every response is clean, typed, and predictable for AI agents to use. --- ## Build your first Flow with a single prompt See how your APIs connect in minutes. Postman AI reads your collections and generates a working Flow that maps data between steps and handles errors automatically. --- *CAPABILITIES* ### Bring your API workflows to life Flows replaces ambiguity at every stage of the API lifecycle with something everyone can run. ### Turn your APIs into business workflows anyone can follow Connect blocks, run your workflow, and inspect exactly what each step received and produced in real time. For complex logic, run Typescript inline on the canvas without having to leave Postman. ### Catch what breaks between endpoints Define conditional logic from API responses using built-in blocks, then run every scenario across a full range of inputs without building or maintaining separate test infrastructure. ### Keep your Flows alongside your code Store Flows in your Git repo alongside collections and environments, allowing you to commit, review, and test Flows like any other code artifact. Use the Postman CLI to run Flows locally in your CI and on your infrastructure. ### Composable Flows Embed Flows inside other Flows as reusable building blocks. Build the logic once and use it everywhere across your most complex multi-step pipelines. ### Easy to share Share your Flows and embed them in your developer portal and docs to accelerate onboarding for partners and end users. ### Run as automations You can turn your visual API workflows into automations that run on a schedule, or as webhooks and MCP servers. Flows run in the Postman Cloud so any external service can call them directly with a public URL. --- > Building connections visually is more intuitive and clear, which results in spending more time building and less time digging through code. — Sid Verma, Partner Engineer, Notion --- *RESOURCES* ## Go deeper on building with Flows ### Flows Template Gallery Explore our collection of over 100 pre-built Flow templates designed to address common use cases. [Browse templates](/templates/flows/) ### Flows documentation Get all the info you need to start building Flows—from creating your first canvas to deploying production workflows to the Postman Cloud. [Read docs ](https://learning.postman.com/docs/postman-flows/overview) ### Developer's guide to AI-ready APIs Learn what it takes to build APIs that work reliably for both developers and AI agents. [Get guide](https://voyager.postman.com/pdf/developers-guide-to-ai-ready-apis.pdf) --- ## Learn more about Flows Chat with a Postman expert to learn how Flows can help your organization accelerate developer onboarding, boost collaboration with your API partners, and scale production workflows across your organization. --- ## Broken collaboration leads to broken APIs. Ninety-three percent of API teams still face collaboration blockers. The 2025 State of the API report reveals how you can unlock the productivity gains that API-first promises, but scattered tooling prevents. [Read the Report](/state-of-api/2025/)