--- title: "Connect BriefTape to Virtualbadge.io - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New news story\" fires in BriefTape, your agent runs \"Send email to recipient\" in Virtualbadge.io." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/brieftape-to-virtualbadge-io" --- # Connect BriefTape to Virtualbadge.io When **New news story** fires in [BriefTape](https://apiant.ai/connections/brieftape), your agent runs **Send email to recipient** in [Virtualbadge.io](https://apiant.ai/connections/virtualbadge-io). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. BriefTape **1** trigger BriefTape **4** actions Virtualbadge.io **16** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want BriefTape and Virtualbadge.io to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What BriefTape can start in Virtualbadge.io - When **New news story** in BriefTape then **Send email to recipient** in Virtualbadge.io - When **New news story** in BriefTape then **Add credential collection** in Virtualbadge.io Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with BriefTape and Virtualbadge.io ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 20 actions - Trigger **New news story** Triggered when a new news story is created - Action **Find news stories by ticker** Finds the AI-summarized SEC filing news stories tagged with a stock ticker. - Action **Get story** Retrieves one news story, including its source filing link. - Action **List categories** Lists all active news story categories with their story counts. - Action **List news stories** Lists the latest AI-summarized news stories, optionally filtered by ticker or category. - Action **Add credential collection** Creates a credential collection that groups certificates and badges. - Action **Create a Training** Creates a training in Virtualbadge.io that participants can be added to and issued certificates from. - Action **Delete recipient** Deletes a recipient from a certificate or badge. - Action **Get certificate** Returns a certificate or badge by its ID, including its name, status, issuer, recipient count, dynamic fields and metadata. - Action **Get credential collection** Returns one credential collection by its id, including its name, sharing setting and the credentials in it. - Action **Get recipient** Returns a recipient of a certificate by ID, including their details, email status and certificate links. - Action **Get training** Returns a single training by its ID, including its status, date, trainer, certificates, collections and form details. - Action **List certificates** Returns the certificates and badges in your organisation, newest first, optionally filtered by type, status, shared collection or user access. - Action **List credential collections** Returns the credential collections in your organisation, most recently added first, optionally filtered by shared status or by a user's access. - Action **List recipients** Returns the certificate and badge recipients in your organisation, most recently added first, optionally filtered by certificate, email status, email or a metadata value. - Action **List training participants** Returns the participants of a training, most recently added first, with their status, form answers, dynamic fields and metadata. - Action **List trainings** Returns all trainings in your organisation, with the most recently added first. - Action **Revoke recipient** Revokes a recipient's certificate so it can no longer be validated or distributed. Revocation is final, and the updated recipient is returned. - Action **Send email to recipient** Sends the certificate email to a recipient and returns the updated recipient. Emails cannot be sent to voided, revoked or disabled recipients, and at most 10 times per recipient. - Action **Update certificate** Updates a certificate or badge's description and custom metadata, and returns the updated certificate. - Action **Update training** Updates a draft training's name, date, trainer, certificates, delivery options and forms, and returns the updated training. ## Each app on its own - [ **BriefTape** Real-time AI-summarized SEC filings, Fed, FDA and BLS data, ticker-tagged](https://apiant.ai/connections/brieftape) - [ **Virtualbadge.io** Virtualbadge.io is a digital certification software that lets you issue certificates for your clients.](https://apiant.ai/connections/virtualbadge-io) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from BriefTape - [ **BriefTape to EARLY** EARLY is a Time Tracking App: Effortless, Smart, and Secure.](https://apiant.ai/connect/brieftape-to-early) - [ **BriefTape to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/brieftape-to-hubspot) - [ **BriefTape to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/brieftape-to-salesforce) - [ **BriefTape to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/brieftape-to-slack) - [ **BriefTape to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/brieftape-to-google-sheets) - [ **BriefTape to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/brieftape-to-gmail) ## More into Virtualbadge.io - [ **HubSpot to Virtualbadge.io** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-virtualbadge-io) - [ **Salesforce to Virtualbadge.io** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-virtualbadge-io) - [ **Slack to Virtualbadge.io** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-virtualbadge-io) - [ **Google Sheets to Virtualbadge.io** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-virtualbadge-io) - [ **Gmail to Virtualbadge.io** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-virtualbadge-io) - [ **Google Calendar to Virtualbadge.io** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-virtualbadge-io) Questions ## BriefTape and Virtualbadge.io, answered ### ### What can start an automation from BriefTape? Any of BriefTape's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New news story. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Virtualbadge.io when something happens in BriefTape? Any of Virtualbadge.io's 16 actions, including Create a Training, Send email to recipient, Update certificate and Update training. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Virtualbadge.io to BriefTape? Virtualbadge.io has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in BriefTape. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Virtualbadge.io's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for BriefTape or Virtualbadge.io? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use BriefTape and Virtualbadge.io without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.