Hello @nickfind,
I would guess that removing the example input block and using another method to trigger the workflow.
I would recommend following the docs for setting up an API endpoint and deleting the manual trigger block.
If your workflow is getting data from an app, there is an Action for triggering workflows that allows for specifying params to be passed in as well. I think the issues is that if the default auto block is there when the workflow is triggered that the code thinks that dummy example input is what it should be using.
Also we can try to live debug from our office hours as well!