Integration
Connect Cartes and Switchboard Canvas
When New marker fires in Cartes, your agent runs Create Image in Switchboard Canvas, or New Template in Switchboard Canvas to Add map in Cartes. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.
What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.
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What do you want Cartes and Switchboard Canvas to do together?
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https://mcp.apiant.aiOne 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.
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Claude Code
Run this in the directory you want to work in.
claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.aiStart Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.
Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)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)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)Zed
Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.
Setup guide (opens in a new tab)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)Grok
Open grok.com/connectors, choose New Connector, then Custom, and paste the address. Grok signs you in in your browser.
Setup guide (opens in a new tab)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)Example flows
What Cartes and Switchboard Canvas can do together
From Cartes to Switchboard Canvas
When New marker in Cartes
then Create Image in Switchboard Canvas
From Switchboard Canvas to Cartes
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 Cartes and Switchboard Canvas
Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 14 actions
- New marker
Triggers when a new marker is added to a Cartes map.
- Add map
Creates a new map on Cartes.io and returns it, including the one-time map token needed to edit or delete it.
- Add marker
Adds a marker at a latitude and longitude on a Cartes.io map, in an existing or new category.
- Delete map
Deletes a map from Cartes.io.
- Delete marker
Deletes a marker from a Cartes.io map.
- Find maps by keyword
Returns public Cartes.io maps that match a keyword.
- Get map
Returns a single Cartes.io map, including its title, description, privacy setting and categories.
- List categories
Returns all marker categories available on Cartes.io.
- List maps
Returns the public maps on Cartes.io, optionally filtered by ID, category or query.
- List markers
Returns all markers on a Cartes.io map, optionally including expired ones.
- Update map
Updates the title, description, privacy or marker-creation setting of an existing Cartes.io map.
- Update marker
Updates a marker on a Cartes.io map: change its description, or (as the map owner) flag it as spam.
- New Template
Triggers when a new template is added to your Switchboard Canvas account.
- Create Image
Creates an image from a template at the width and height you give, replacing template element values with your overwrites, and returns the URL of the generated image (kept for 7 days).
- List Template Elements
Returns the elements defined in a template, each with its name and type (text, image or rectangle), so you know which elements you can overwrite.
- List Templates
Returns the image templates defined in your Switchboard Canvas account, with each template's API name and display name.
No trigger or action matches that. Ask your agent to add it: it reads the API documentation and builds what you describe.
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Questions
Cartes and Switchboard Canvas, answered
What can start an automation from Cartes?
Any of Cartes's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New marker. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.
What can your agent do in Switchboard Canvas when something happens in Cartes?
Any of Switchboard Canvas's 3 actions, including Create Image, List Template Elements and List Templates. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.
Can it also run from Switchboard Canvas to Cartes?
Yes. When something happens in Switchboard Canvas, your agent can act in Cartes too. This page covers both directions: Switchboard Canvas's triggers and Cartes's actions are listed here as well.
Do I have to build a connector for Cartes or Switchboard Canvas?
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 Cartes and Switchboard Canvas 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.