Integration
Connect Flashquotes to OpenAlex
When Updated Event Staff fires in Flashquotes, your agent runs Classify text topics in OpenAlex. 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.
Build solutions, not workarounds.
What do you want Flashquotes and OpenAlex to do together?
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Connect your AI client
Give your AI client this address.
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.
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.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)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 Flashquotes can start in OpenAlex
When Updated Event Staff in Flashquotes
then Classify text topics in OpenAlex
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 Flashquotes and OpenAlex
Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 16 actions
- Updated Event Staff
Triggers when the staff assigned to an event change. Returns the event and its current staff.
- Updated Event Timeline
Triggers when an event's timeline changes, including its service or shift times and its prep, travel, setup, cleanup or unload durations.
- Get Event
Returns a single Flashquotes event by its id, optionally including related details such as its location, staff, services, checklists and booking.
- Get Form Response
Returns the answers submitted on a Flashquotes form response, keyed by each question's title.
- Get Invoices
Returns all invoices for a booking, including each invoice's number, status, due date, amounts and viewing link.
- Get quote
Returns a quote by ID with its live total price, dates, status details and event information, plus any related records you ask to include. An error occurs if the quote is not found.
- Get resource
Returns a single Flashquotes resource, such as a piece of equipment or a bookable item, by its ID, including its name, category, status and location.
- Get staff member
Returns one staff member by ID, including their contact details, role and status. Inactive staff are returned too.
- List Events
Returns your company's Flashquotes events, newest first, optionally narrowed by service start time, creation date, location or booking.
- List quotes
Returns quote summaries for your company with live totals, newest first, optionally filtered by contact, location, booking, event type or date range.
- List resources
Returns the resources for your company, newest first, optionally only those at one location.
- Classify text topics
Classify arbitrary text (e.g. title/abstract) into OpenAlex topics ("Aboutness" endpoint).
- Find entities by autocomplete
Type-ahead search across a given entity type (works, authors, sources, institutions, etc), returning quick display hints.
- Get funder
Get a single funder by OpenAlex ID.
- Get publisher
Get a single publisher by OpenAlex ID.
- Get source
Get a single source by OpenAlex ID or external ID (ISSN etc).
- List publishers
List/search publishers with filter/search params.
- List topics
List/search research topics with filter/search params.
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
Flashquotes and OpenAlex, answered
What can start an automation from Flashquotes?
Any of Flashquotes's 2 triggers in the catalog, including Updated Event Staff and Updated Event Timeline. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.
What can your agent do in OpenAlex when something happens in Flashquotes?
Any of OpenAlex's 7 actions, including Classify text topics, Find entities by autocomplete, Get funder and Get publisher. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.
Can it also run from OpenAlex to Flashquotes?
OpenAlex has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Flashquotes. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads OpenAlex's API documentation and adds it.
Do I have to build a connector for Flashquotes or OpenAlex?
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 Flashquotes and OpenAlex 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.