--- title: "Connect Google Ads and Grist - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Campaign\" fires in Google Ads, your agent runs \"Create or Update Record\" in Grist." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/google-ads-to-grist" --- # Connect Google Ads and Grist When **New Campaign** fires in [Google Ads](https://apiant.ai/connections/google-ads), your agent runs **Create or Update Record** in [Grist](https://apiant.ai/connections/grist), or **New or Updated Record** in Grist to **Create Customer List** in Google Ads. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Google Ads **1** trigger Google Ads **9** actions Grist **4** triggers Grist **21** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Google Ads and Grist 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. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Google Ads and Grist can do together ### From Google Ads to Grist - When **New Campaign** in Google Ads then **Create or Update Record** in Grist - When **New Campaign** in Google Ads then **Create Record** in Grist ### From Grist to Google Ads - When **New or Updated Record** in Grist then **Create Customer List** in Google Ads - When **New Record** in Grist then **List Accessible Customers** in Google Ads 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 Google Ads and Grist ## Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 30 actions - Trigger **New Campaign** Triggers when a new campaign is created in a Google Ads account. - Action **Create Customer List** Creates a Customer Match audience list in a Google Ads account. - Action **Find Campaign** Finds Google Ads campaigns whose name exactly matches the name given. - Action **Get Campaign** Returns one Google Ads campaign by its id, with its status, type, dates and daily budget. - Action **Get Campaign Performance Report** Returns cost, impressions, clicks and conversions for each campaign in a Google Ads account, one row per campaign per day, for a date range. - Action **List Accessible Customers** Returns the Google Ads customer account ids the connected user can access directly. - Action **List Campaigns** Returns every campaign in a Google Ads account that has not been removed, with status, type, dates and daily budget. - Action **List Customer Lists** Returns the Customer Match audience lists in a Google Ads account. - Action **Set Campaign Status** Pauses or enables a Google Ads campaign. - Action **Update Campaign Budget** Changes the daily amount of a Google Ads campaign budget. - Trigger **New or Updated Record** Triggered when a row in a Grist table is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Record (Instant)** Triggers when a Record is updated, or a new Record is added. - Trigger **New Record** Triggered when a new row is added to a Grist table. - Trigger **New Record (Instant)** Triggers when a new Record is created - Action **Add Column** Adds a column to a table in a Grist document. - Action **Add Table** Creates a new table in a Grist document, optionally with a starting set of columns. - Action **Create Document** Creates a new document in a Grist workspace and returns its document ID. - Action **Create or Update Record** Adds a row to a Grist table, or updates the existing row when the match column already holds the match value. Returns the row ID. - Action **Create Record** Adds a new row to a Grist table and returns its row ID. - Action **Create Workspace** Creates a new workspace in a Grist organization and returns its ID. - Action **Delete Document** Deletes a Grist document permanently. - Action **Delete Records** Deletes one or more rows from a Grist table by row ID. - Action **Delete Workspace** Deletes a Grist workspace along with every document inside it. - Action **Find Record** Searches a Grist table for a row whose column holds a given value and returns that row's ID and column values. - Action **Get Document** Returns the details of one Grist document — its name, web address, workspace, and organization. - Action **Get Org** Returns the details of one Grist organization (team site) — its name, subdomain, owner, and your access level. - Action **Get Workspace** Returns the details of one Grist workspace, including the documents it contains. - Action **List Columns** Returns the columns of a Grist table, with each column's ID, label, and type. - Action **List Orgs** Returns every Grist organization (team site) this connection can reach. - Action **List Tables** Returns the tables in a Grist document. - Action **List Workspaces** Returns the workspaces in a Grist organization, each with the documents it contains. - Action **Run SQL Query** Runs a read-only SELECT statement against a Grist document and returns the rows. - Action **Update Document** Renames a Grist document or changes whether it is pinned. Anything left blank stays as it is. - Action **Update Record** Changes the column values of one row in a Grist table. Columns left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Workspace** Renames a Grist workspace. ## Each app on its own - [ **Google Ads** Google Ads is Google's online advertising platform for search, display, video and shopping campaigns.](https://apiant.ai/connections/google-ads) - [ **Grist** Grist combines the flexibility of a spreadsheet with the robustness of a database to organize your data...](https://apiant.ai/connections/grist) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Google Ads - [ **Google Ads to Vercel** Vercel is a platform for building, deploying, and scaling fast, modern web applications effortlessly.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-ads-to-vercel) - [ **Google Ads to Twenty** Twenty is a modern Open-Source CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-ads-to-twenty) - [ **Google Ads to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-ads-to-hubspot) - [ **Google Ads to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-ads-to-salesforce) - [ **Google Ads to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-ads-to-slack) - [ **Google Ads to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-ads-to-google-sheets) ## More into Grist - [ **MySQL to Grist** Connect directly to a MySQL database and run SQL statements from your automations.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mysql-to-grist) - [ **Fillout Forms to Grist** Create powerful forms, surveys and quizzes your audience will answer with Fillout Forms.](https://apiant.ai/connect/fillout-forms-to-grist) - [ **Google Tasks to Grist** Google Tasks provides a simple to-do list and task management system integrated into Gmail and Google...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-tasks-to-grist) - [ **Slack to Grist** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-grist) - [ **Google Calendar to Grist** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-grist) - [ **ActiveCampaign to Grist** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-grist) Questions ## Google Ads and Grist, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Google Ads? Any of Google Ads's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New Campaign. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Grist when something happens in Google Ads? Any of Grist's 21 actions, including Create Document, Create or Update Record, Create Record and Create Workspace. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Grist to Google Ads? Yes. When something happens in Grist, your agent can act in Google Ads too. This page covers both directions: Grist's triggers and Google Ads's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Google Ads or Grist? 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 Google Ads and Grist 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.