The workflow presented here can be used to screen a wide variety of inorganic oxide and related systems for unknown phases, demonstrated here with the observation of a range of quaternaries, including a previously unreported composition. The workflow begins to offer a high throughput approach to surveying increasingly complex systems with the potential for further development to increase the throughput rate and add additional automation according to the requirements of the particular research task. The aim is to remove lengthy manual steps while avoiding investing considerable resources in engineering every single step, when there are steps that are better and more flexibly done manually in a research environment. The data generated are comparable to data that are obtained from conventional methods, which demonstrates the applicability of the workflow for the identification of new phases. The workflow gives access to a range of chemistries and reaction environments matching those in traditional solid-state synthesis, and affords samples in a form factor compatible with a range of measurements.