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title: "Connect Karbon and SQL Server - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"New work item\" fires in Karbon, your agent runs \"Add Row\" in SQL Server."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/karbon-to-sql-server"
---

# Connect Karbon and SQL Server

When **New work item** fires in [Karbon](https://apiant.ai/connections/karbon), your agent runs **Add Row** in [SQL Server](https://apiant.ai/connections/sql-server), or **New or Updated Row** in SQL Server to **Create Organization Contact** in Karbon. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Karbon **1** trigger Karbon **16** actions SQL Server **4** triggers SQL Server **7** actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

## What do you want Karbon and SQL Server 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 Karbon and SQL Server can do together

### From Karbon to SQL Server

- When **New work item** in Karbon then **Add Row** in SQL Server
- When **New work item** in Karbon then **Update Row** in SQL Server

### From SQL Server to Karbon

- When **New or Updated Row** in SQL Server then **Create Organization Contact** in Karbon
- When **New Row** in SQL Server then **Create Person Contact** in Karbon

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 Karbon and SQL Server

## Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 23 actions

- Trigger

**New work item**

Triggers when a new work item is created in Karbon.

- Action

**Add client group**

Creates a new client group in Karbon, optionally with members, owner, manager and client team.

- Action

**Add note**

Creates a note in Karbon, optionally assigned to a user and linked to work items, contacts, organizations or client groups.

- Action

**Add work item**

Creates a new work item for a client in Karbon.

- Action

**Create Organization Contact**

Creates a new Organization contact in Karbon.

- Action

**Create Person Contact**

Creates a new person Contact in Karbon and returns the created Contact record.

- Action

**Find an Organization Contact**

Finds Organization contacts in Karbon matching a full name, email address, external key or contact type, and returns the matching organizations.

- Action

**Find a Person Contact**

Finds person contacts in Karbon by email address, full name, phone number, contact type or external key, and returns the matches.

- Action

**Get work item**

Returns the details of a single Karbon work item, including its client, dates, status, fee settings and role assignments.

- Action

**List invoices**

Returns the invoices in your Karbon account, optionally filtered by invoice status and sorted.

- Action

**List timesheets**

Returns a list of timesheets from your Karbon account, optionally filtered by date, user, work item or status, with their time entries if requested.

- Action

**List users**

Returns the users in your Karbon account, optionally filtered by name or email address.

- Action

**List work items**

Returns the work items in your Karbon account, optionally filtered and sorted.

- Action

**Update client group**

Renames an existing Karbon client group by changing its full name.

- Action

**Update Organization Contact**

Updates the name or privacy level of an existing Organization contact in Karbon.

- Action

**Update Person Contact**

Updates the name details or privacy level of an existing Person Contact in Karbon.

- Action

**Update work item**

Updates a Karbon work item's title, description, dates, assignee, work type, role assignments or status. Fields left blank are not changed.

- Trigger

**New or Updated Row**

Triggers when a new row is added or modified.

- Trigger

**New or Updated Row (Custom Query)**

Fires for each new or changed row returned by a SELECT statement you write against the connected SQL Server database.

- Trigger

**New Row**

Triggers when you add a new row.

- Trigger

**New Table**

Fires when a new table appears in the connected SQL Server database.

- Action

**Add Row**

Add one row to a table on the connected SQL Server database.

- Action

**Delete Row**

Delete the rows in a table whose chosen column equals a value.

- Action

**Find Row**

Find the first row in a table whose chosen column matches a value.

- Action

**Find Rows via Custom Query**

Runs a SELECT statement you write against the connected SQL Server database and returns every row it matches.

- Action

**Find Row via Custom Query**

Runs a SELECT statement you write against the connected SQL Server database and returns the first row it matches.

- Action

**Run Custom Statement**

Runs a statement you write against the connected SQL Server database that changes data rather than returning rows, and reports how many rows it changed.

- Action

**Update Row**

Change column values on every row of a table whose chosen column matches a value.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Karbon** Karbon is the collaborative practice management platform for accounting firms.](https://apiant.ai/connections/karbon)
- [ **SQL Server** Connect directly to a Microsoft SQL Server database and run SQL statements from your automations.](https://apiant.ai/connections/sql-server)

Reviews

## What our customers say

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- [ **Karbon to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/karbon-to-shopify)
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## More into SQL Server

- [ **HubSpot to SQL Server** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-sql-server)
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- [ **Mailchimp to SQL Server** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-sql-server)
- [ **Shopify to SQL Server** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shopify-to-sql-server)
- [ **QuickBooks Online to SQL Server** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/quickbooks-online-to-sql-server)
- [ **Pipedrive to SQL Server** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/pipedrive-to-sql-server)

Questions

## Karbon and SQL Server, answered

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### What can start an automation from Karbon?

Any of Karbon's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New work item. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

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### What can your agent do in SQL Server when something happens in Karbon?

Any of SQL Server's 7 actions, including Update Row, Add Row, Find Row and Find Rows via Custom Query. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

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### Can it also run from SQL Server to Karbon?

Yes. When something happens in SQL Server, your agent can act in Karbon too. This page covers both directions: SQL Server's triggers and Karbon's actions are listed here as well.

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### Do I have to build a connector for Karbon or SQL Server?

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.

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### Can my AI client use Karbon and SQL Server 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.

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### 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.

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### Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.