thanks again for your help!
Sure thing 
i didnt know about File Stores - bad ass
Yes it is cool, though admittedly the Advanced tier is out of my price range 
I would love to have concurrency though.
I tried to wire up a “poor man’s concurrency” by node scripting a random wait between X and Y minutes within an automation, but Pipedream seems to be smart enough to know what I’m trying to do 
There’s no blocking from using setTimeout but you just have to be careful to make sure you’re wrapping that in a Promise to hold the step’s execution
Ahh, maybe that was it.
Here’s another native option:
You can effectively hold execution and suspend the workflow without adding to the timeout limit.
And here’s the setTimeout example too:
oh that’s handy!