# AppExchange Amplified 2026: built live in Salesforce > The recap of AppExchange Amplified with Talent Stacker, Tue 27 Oct 2026: Salesforce professionals built document automation with CloudFiles in their own orgs. The replay, the tutorial and how to build it yourself. *AppExchange Amplified · Recorded Tue 27 Oct 2026 · with Talent Stacker* ## They built it live. *Now you can too.* Salesforce professionals from the Talent Stacker community spent three hours building document automation with CloudFiles, each in their own org. Here is what they built, and how to build it yourself. [Watch the replay](#watch) · [Build it yourself](#build-it) *The build in numbers* ## One afternoon, *one org each* - **804** — Salesforce professionals applied - **205** — Accepted to build live - **3 hours** — Building, live, with Talent Stacker - **5 flows** — Across three CloudFiles products *Three products, one record* ## Every deal, *filed, read and written* Each learner built five small flows on the Opportunity, with CloudFiles Document Management, Document AI and Document Generation working together. - **Document Management** — Flows 1 and 2. A new customer gets its own folder, and a new deal gets a folder with five subfolders, all linked to the Salesforce record. - **Document AI** — Flows 3 and 4. A file dropped on the deal is read, recognised for what it is, moved to the right subfolder, and the invoice's details are written onto the deal. - **Document Generation** — Flow 5. One button on the deal builds the finance agreement as a PDF from the record, and files it in the deal's agreement folder. *Document AI · the mapper* ## 10 invoice fields, *mapped once* The mapper tells Document AI where each value on a supplier invoice belongs on the deal: supplier, invoice number, date and amount, payment terms, and the equipment's make, model, serial number and year. Map it once, and every invoice that lands on a deal fills the same fields. *Salesforce Flow · five small flows* ## One event, *one flow* Each flow reacts to one thing: a customer created, a deal created, a file landing in the deal folder, a document read, a button pressed. When something does not happen, you know exactly which flow to open. *Missed it, or did not finish?* ## Build it *yourself* The build was designed to be done again on your own: the replay, a step-by-step tutorial, and a free CloudFiles org to do it in. - **The replay and the tutorial** — The full three hours, and the written tutorial for every step, with a troubleshooting table for when a flow will not fire. [Get the replay](#watch) - **The Talent Show** — Applied for AppExchange Amplified? Take the build one step further with a sixth requirement and send a short video of it working. An iPad for first, AirPods for second and third, and Salesforce certification vouchers from Talent Stacker. Entries close Tue 3 Nov 2026. [See the challenge](https://pages.cloudfiles.io/talent-stacker-cloudfiles-talent-show) - **The certificate** — Applicants who finish the five flows by Sun 15 Nov 2026 send their Org ID to Talent Stacker, who review the build and issue the certificate. [Start with the prerequisites](https://pages.cloudfiles.io/talent-stacker-cloudfiles-prerequisites) *Who ran the room* ## Thank you for *building with us* Thank you to everyone who applied, to everyone who stayed for all three hours and asked the hard questions, and to Bradley Rice and the Talent Stacker team for hosting. - **Michael Sherrod** — Sales Engineer, led the build - **Adarsh Reddy** — Head of Pre-Sales, built the working example - **Kunwar Dilshad Ali Khan** — Ran the chat, so nobody got stuck ## Frequently asked questions **Q: I applied for AppExchange Amplified. Do I need to fill in the form?** No. Talent Stacker emailed every applicant the replay, the tutorial and the Talent Show details on 28 Oct 2026. The form is here for everyone else, and it is quicker than finding the email. **Q: Can I do the build if I was not accepted, or did not apply?** Yes. Every applicant can do the build, enter the Talent Show and earn the certificate, accepted or not. If you did not apply, you can still follow the replay and the tutorial in your own org; the Talent Show and the certificate are Talent Stacker's, for applicants. **Q: What do I need to start?** A free Salesforce Developer Edition org and about an hour for the prerequisites: install CloudFiles, connect storage and create the fields the flows use. The prerequisites page walks through every step and ends with submitting your Org ID. **Q: How long do I have?** Talent Show entries close Tue 3 Nov 2026, and winners are announced by Fri 6 Nov. Learners' CloudFiles access runs to Sun 15 Nov 2026, so finish the build for the certificate before then. **Q: Who judges the Talent Show?** Talent Stacker judges and picks the winners. CloudFiles gives the iPad and the AirPods, following Talent Stacker's placings. **Q: Where did the files go?** Into Google Drive, in folders CloudFiles created and linked to each Salesforce record. The same build works with SharePoint or AWS S3. **Q: What is AppExchange Amplified?** A Talent Stacker programme in which Salesforce professionals learn an AppExchange product by building with it, live, alongside the team that makes it. CloudFiles was the October 2026 partner. CloudFiles is document automation for Salesforce. ## Want this built on *your* deals? We can show you Take 20 minutes with the team that ran the build. Bring your own documents and your own process, and we will show you what the five flows look like on them. [Book 20 minutes](https://meet.cloudfiles.io/salesforce?utm_content=sf-events-appexchange-amplified-2026-footer) ## Watch the *replay* **Watch the replay** The full three-hour build, the step-by-step tutorial and the prerequisites. A contact form follows this section.