No, there's [a ticket](https://github.com/sequelize/sequelize/issues/434) open for it, but such behaviour doesn't exist that I'm aware of. You could just use a `success`/`error` callback on the [`findOrCreate`](http://sequelizejs.com/documentation#models-finders-findorcreate) here though, rather than using the `waterfall`, but ultimately doesn't matter that much.