# Airtable Automations slow down

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**Created:** [May 8, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://air.tableforums.com/t/airtable-automations-slow-down/1529 "2025-05-08T00:57:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://air.tableforums.com/t/airtable-automations-slow-down/1529/1 "2025-05-08T00:57:15Z")

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Found the Find Step seems slowing down the automation, did anybody else observe, so it can be useful if I have merged multiple steps in the same automation and I can’t have the following step run before the earlier step is completed, e.g. if the fields get linked and in the following step I need to populate something that is in the lookup field dependent on the linked field. Can be useful if I have multiple steps. I solved one of the issues I had by adding the Find step, even though the Find step isn’t needed at all.

I’ve seen a post here about it:

> **[Automations run simultaneously rather than in sequence | Airtable Community](https://community.airtable.com/automations-8/automations-run-simultaneously-rather-than-in-sequence-23395)**
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> As per the attachment, I have created an automation with multiple steps starting with a form being submitted and ending with an email being sent to the customer who submitted the form.The email body requires data from the previous steps of the...