--- title: "Connect PaintScout to Ashby - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Contact Created\" fires in PaintScout, your agent runs \"Create Candidate Note\" in Ashby." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-ashby" --- # Connect PaintScout to Ashby When **Contact Created** fires in [PaintScout](https://apiant.ai/connections/paintscout), your agent runs **Create Candidate Note** in [Ashby](https://apiant.ai/connections/ashby). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. PaintScout **5** triggers PaintScout **25** actions Ashby **17** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want PaintScout and Ashby 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 PaintScout can start in Ashby - When **Contact Created** in PaintScout then **Create Candidate Note** in Ashby - When **Invoice Status Changed** in PaintScout then **Add candidate tag** in Ashby 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 PaintScout and Ashby ## Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 42 actions - Trigger **Contact Created** Triggers when a new contact is created in PaintScout. - Trigger **Invoice Sent** Triggers when an invoice is sent to a customer, including when an invoice is re-sent. - Trigger **Invoice Status Changed** Triggers when an invoice's status changes, delivering the invoice with its new status. - Trigger **Quote Status Changed** Triggers when a quote's status changes, for example when it is sent, accepted or declined. - Trigger **Quote Tag Added** Triggers when a tag is added to a quote, optionally only for one specific tag. - Action **Add company** Creates a new company in PaintScout with its name, contact details, address, lead source, owner and tags. - Action **Add deal** Creates a new deal in PaintScout, with its contact, job address, pipeline stage and value. - Action **Add event** Creates a scheduled event (such as a consultation or production job) on a PaintScout deal. - Action **Add invoice item** Adds a line item to an existing PaintScout invoice, with its name, price, hours, quantity, notes, files and materials. - Action **Add note** Adds a note to a PaintScout contact, deal or company and returns the new note. - Action **Add quote item** Adds a line item to an existing PaintScout quote, with its price, hours, quantity, notes, files and materials. - Action **Add task** Creates a task in PaintScout, optionally linked to a deal and assigned to a user. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a new contact in PaintScout with names, email, phone numbers, address, lead source, owner, note and tags. - Action **Create Invoice** Creates a new invoice in PaintScout, optionally with its contact, job address, line items, discount and tax, and returns the created invoice. - Action **Create Quote** Creates a new quote in PaintScout for a contact, with its job address, notes, pricing adjustments and tags. - Action **Find companies** Returns the companies that match a search filter, such as a name, email or city. - Action **Find Contact** Returns up to 100 contacts that match the search you specify, such as an email address, name or company. - Action **Find deals** Returns the deals that match a search filter, such as a deal name, pipeline, stage or lead source. - Action **Find Invoice** Returns the invoices that match a search, such as a status, invoice number, contact name or date range. - Action **Find Quote** Returns the quotes that match a search filter, such as a quote number, status or contact name. - Action **Get contact** Returns a single PaintScout contact by its ID, including name, company, email, phone, address, lead source, owner and tags. - Action **Get deal** Returns a single PaintScout deal by its ID, including its contact, job address, pipeline stage, value, tags, linked quotes and invoices, and job costing. - Action **Get invoice** Returns a single PaintScout invoice with its contact, line items, payments, taxes, discounts and totals. Can optionally return the work-order view, which includes per-item material costs. - Action **Get quote** Returns a single PaintScout quote by its ID, including contact, job address, totals, tax, discount, payments, tags and customer-view links. - Action **Update company** Updates an existing PaintScout company's name, contact details, address, lead source, owner or tags. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing PaintScout contact's name, contact details, address, lead source, owner, note and tags. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update deal** Updates an existing deal in PaintScout — its name, contact, job address, pipeline and stage, lead source, owner, tags and job costing. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update invoice** Updates an existing PaintScout invoice — its status, contact, line items, notes, terms, discount, tax and other details. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update Quote** Updates an existing PaintScout quote, such as its status, contact, job address, notes, discount or tags, and returns the updated quote. - Action **Update task** Updates an existing task in PaintScout, such as its title, owner, notes, start time or completion status. - Action **Add candidate tag** Adds an existing tag to a candidate in Ashby and returns the updated candidate. - Action **Add job** Creates a new job in Ashby with a title, department/team and location, optionally applying a job template, interview plan, employment type and brand. - Action **Add offer** Creates an offer for a candidate's application in Ashby by submitting the offer form for an offer process that has already been started. - Action **Change Job Consideration Stage** Moves a candidate's application (their consideration for a job) to a different interview stage, optionally with an archive reason and rejection email when archiving. - Action **Consider Candidate for Job** Considers a candidate for a job in Ashby by creating a new application, optionally placing it in a specific interview plan and stage with a source and credited user. - Action **Create Candidate** Creates a new candidate in Ashby with their name, contact details, social profiles, location and source. - Action **Create Candidate Note** Adds a note to a candidate's profile in Ashby, optionally as HTML, private, or with notifications to subscribed users. - Action **Find Candidate** Returns up to 100 candidates whose email address and/or name match the values you supply. - Action **Find Job** Returns up to 100 jobs whose title or requisition ID matches the text you search for. - Action **Find Job Consideration** Returns the applications (candidates being considered) for a job in Ashby, optionally narrowed by application status and creation date. - Action **Find Opening** Returns the openings whose identifier matches the one you supply, including each opening's state, jobs, locations, hiring team and custom fields. - Action **Get candidate** Returns the full details of a single Ashby candidate, including contact info, tags, applications, files and custom field values. - Action **List departments** Returns all departments and teams in your Ashby account, optionally including archived ones or only those changed since a previous sync. - Action **List locations** Returns the office and remote locations set up in your Ashby account, optionally including archived locations and regions. - Action **Update Candidate** Updates an existing candidate's name, contact details, social links, source, credited user and location in Ashby. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update job** Updates an existing job in Ashby — its title, team, location, default interview plan, employment type or requisition id. - Action **Update Opening** Updates an existing opening in Ashby, such as its identifier, description, department, target dates, backfill flag or employment type. Returns the updated opening. ## Each app on its own - [ **PaintScout** PaintScout helps estimate & sell painting jobs.](https://apiant.ai/connections/paintscout) - [ **Ashby** Ashby's all-in-one recruiting software consolidates your ATS, Analytics, Scheduling, and CRM.](https://apiant.ai/connections/ashby) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from PaintScout - [ **PaintScout to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-salesforce) - [ **PaintScout to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-slack) - [ **PaintScout to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-stripe) - [ **PaintScout to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-shopify) - [ **PaintScout to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-quickbooks-online) - [ **PaintScout to Pipedrive** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-pipedrive) ## More into Ashby - [ **HubSpot to Ashby** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-ashby) - [ **Salesforce to Ashby** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-ashby) - [ **Slack to Ashby** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-ashby) - [ **Google Sheets to Ashby** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-ashby) - [ **Gmail to Ashby** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-ashby) - [ **Google Calendar to Ashby** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-ashby) Questions ## PaintScout and Ashby, answered ### ### What can start an automation from PaintScout? Any of PaintScout's 5 triggers in the catalog, including Contact Created, Invoice Status Changed, Quote Status Changed and Quote Tag Added. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Ashby when something happens in PaintScout? Any of Ashby's 17 actions, including Create Candidate, Create Candidate Note, Update Candidate and Update job. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Ashby to PaintScout? Ashby has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in PaintScout. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Ashby's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for PaintScout or Ashby? 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 PaintScout and Ashby 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.